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Wow, I think 16 is a little ambitious at this point. The next two weeks will reveal a lot about this team.
If they had voted on this poll Friday morning we wouldn’t have even gotten a vote. Wild to have us at 16.
Our RPI is in the 60s, only ahead of Mizzou SEC wise. These polls really dont matter at all.
Have to let the SEC season play out 3-4 weeks to find out who are the pretenders and who are the contenders.
But as ive said, we've got to win 15 sec games. We've got 2. Need to keep winning.
Have to let the SEC season play out 3-4 weeks to find out who are the pretenders and who are the contenders.
But as ive said, we've got to win 15 sec games. We've got 2. Need to keep winning.
Yeah, and it's hard to see us still being in there after the next two weekends. But we did look like a baseball team for three consecutive days against a team they believe is top tier.
Baseball is the one sport where name recognition gives us the benefit of doubt
Their number association with Ole Miss is spot on.
State, Mississippi, LSU, and USM rankings are all a joke. All are way over-ranked.
D1 has the Dawgs at 21. 16 feels way too high after spending the first month of the season struggling against the Blind Sister's of the Poor. For me at least it comes down to how over-ranked you think LSU is. I think they have talent, but are in for a lot struggles over the next few weeks. Just like us, LSU's conference schedule is absolutely brutal over the next few weeks. We should learn a lot more about both teams over the next couple of conference weekends.
Yep give it 3 weeks.
LSU has a lot of holes to fill off last years team. They lost two top draft picks off last years team. Theyve got talent, just got to find the right roles for them all. We are fortunate to play them early in the SEC schedule. Would imagine as the year goes on and they find the right spots to slot these guys in, they are much better...... right now, they look very middling, and very unsure of themselves. Thats obvious by the constant lineup shuffling and quick hooks out of the pen.
Lemonis has this team trending in the right directions. Enjoy the ride.
context
Af-5-0 last five games
Austin P. 13-6 overall
Gsouthern-9-10 overall..tough schedule
Jackson St. 15-4….win over Memphis
Mount St Mary-2 wins, horrible
Usm-14-6 ..4 in a row #25
Evansville..9-10..wins over mich st and UNO
USA..12-8…wins against MS State and Nebraska
UNO-9-10…wins vs USA and Memphis
AF, 89 RPI
AP, 145
GS, 52
Jack State, 214
MSM, 285
USM, 44
Evans, 184
South, 66
UNO, 143
Nothing impressive about that... LSU is 29.
We are 20 plus games into the season and have yet to play a top 25 RPI opponent... that changes this week..
Not sure what your trying to say... but at this point, its all about winning SEC games. We need 15 wins.
The SEC brings everybody back to earth. Especially these days.
TAMU goes to 10-6 Florida at 17-0 and comes home 18-2.
Georgia was 17-1 and got swept in Lexington. The closest game was 6 runs.
Auburn loses 3 in Nashville.
We could actually play pretty well the next two weekends on the road and still be 4-5 in the league after a 2-1 start. In fact I'd take it right now.
TAMU goes to 10-6 Florida at 17-0 and comes home 18-2.
Georgia was 17-1 and got swept in Lexington. The closest game was 6 runs.
Auburn loses 3 in Nashville.
We could actually play pretty well the next two weekends on the road and still be 4-5 in the league after a 2-1 start. In fact I'd take it right now.
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25th here, which feels about right
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Numbers speak for themselves
I was just reflecting them.
Will be interesting to see where a few of these teams end up…particularly AF and AP. They impressed me.
Yep. No road teams won the series this weekend. Which is why Sunday was key for us. Give it about 3-4 weeks. Let those home and road series even out, and then you'll have an idea.
We've got to avoid the bad stretches, find ways to not get swept against the tough teams, and win the home series's. Gotta shore up our starting pitching. LSU's offense is very much middle of the pack in the SEC, and we didnt exactly dominate them
You do know that RPI absolutely sucks as a metric, right?
That's a lot of data that sucks.
But the NCAA uses it as a major tool to evaluate teams. So even if it sucks, its important to be ranked highly there.
14 of the 16 host last season were ranked inside the top 16 RPI wise. The other two were 17 and 19.
RPI is key. Even if it sucks
Middle of the pack SEC means you're a national title contender.
And we beat them 15-5 and 10-4 with a one run loss. What exactly is domination?
They say they do, but anybody with sense knows how flawed it is. It's being moved away from everywhere possible.
But its not being moved away from baseball yet.... coaches and ADs want to move from it.. but its not.
College Baseball Mulls RPI Reform In Wake Of NCAA Tournament Selections
After another NCAA Tournament selection show that seemingly was based heavily on RPI, selection committee chairman John Cohen said it was time to explore reforming the metric.
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Thats why I said 15 wins is key.
Our pitching staff didnt dominate LSU hitters. We'll face much tougher offenses in the SEC than LSU. That was the reference. No starter went 10 innings combined. 6.23 era. 23 walks on the weekend. Isnt going to cut it.
But any series that ends up 2-1 and not in a sweep... wasnt dominated.... period.
I hope Coinz doesn’t bring Jay J onto his committee…. They’ll finger 17 that issue until it can’t walk
You arnt completely wrong, however, RPI doesn’t look at that. RPI looks at the asshooping we slapped on those ratbastards.
RPI doesn't consider scores. Only wins, losses and home/away/neutral. A 2-1 win is the same as a 20-1 win.
Fair enough. I honestly forgot they still used it that extensively. It does reflect reasonably well after enough data hits it. Not so much right now.
Lemonis has this team trending in the right directions. Enjoy the ride.
I'll take 3-3 for the next two SEC series.
I think I understand why everybody hates the SEC. Team in the 80s RPI wins a series over a team ranked #2 and instead of that team dropping out of the top 10, the other other team goes from not even receiving votes to #16.
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