Running SBC tourney thread with Parrott blogs and tweets

[GoneGolfin]

_ Thread bump, with update on start time at 12:55 p.m. between the Cajuns and Middle Tennessee.

The Blue Raiders dropped all three games to the Cajuns in the regular season in Lafayette.

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Josh,

The Sun Belt has the #7 RPI. It has not had the #5 RPI in nearly two weeks. It entered the Sun Belt tournament as having the #6 RPI, holding a slim lead over the Big East. CUSA is pulling away in the #5 spot.

WKU had an RPI rank of 39 entering today's game. They will fall further after today. We will see after today's action, but probably somewhere in the #42 - #44 range.

While there is an outside chance they get in ... and it will depend on the # of stolen bids, I think they are out. T6th place finish, 6-9 over their last 15, 0-2 in the conference tournament (meaning finishing 8th in the Sun Belt), and now a borderline RPI (which was their strongest argument) ... does not look good.

I will perform a much more exhaustive analysis on Sunday when I can evaluate all of their competition for the last spots in the field of 64.

Brian

[Parrott]

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[Parrott]

Brian: At last check, the Sun Belt was tied for 6th with the Big East, not seventh.

I forgot to refresh my page.

[Parrott]

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[GoneGolfin]

_ Brian: At last check, the Sun Belt was tied for 6th with the Big East, not seventh.

I forgot to refresh my page. _

No, the Sun Belt is 7th. Boyd Nation does not publish the 4th decimal place on his web page. But he does calculate it and this is why he lists the Big East as 6th and the Sun Belt as 7th. I have the raw numbers and the Big East is .0003 ahead of the Sun Belt.

Brian

[Parrott]

Great. All I can go on is the data I can find online, so I'm going to say there's a tie when that's what I see.

You might want to consider that when you jump to tell people they're wrong in the future.

Thanks for your help.


igeaux.mobi

[GoneGolfin]

_ Great. All I can go on is the data I can find online, so I'm going to say there's a tie when that's what I see.

You might want to consider that when you jump to tell people they're wrong in the future.

Thanks for your help.

Josh, no need to get uptight. All I did was simply provide you with the information that the Sun Belt was in fact #7 and took the time to explain why. And what I "considered" was that you mistakenly thought it was a tie because both conferences had a listed RPI of .532, even though Boyd clearly had a rank of 6 for the Big East and a rank of 7 for the Sun Belt. So, I explained that he simply does not report with the four digits of precision used in the calculation.

I will assume you just had a long day.

Brian

[Parrott]

Brian, I simply thanked you for your response.

Please take your own advice and relax.

igeaux.mobi

[CajunZ1]

_ Brian, I simply thanked you for your response. I edited my original response because I meant what I said and didn't want to distract from that point.

Please take your own advice and relax.

igeaux.mobi _

I was wondering why Brian jumped you for your comment, but then I saw you edited your previous post.

If I was Brian I would have reacted the same way FWIW (probably not worth a nickel).

[CajunZ1]

JP, if UL gets sent to a far away land for the regionals, will the DA be sending you? Do you know if anybody from the DA is going to the softball series?