2017 Baseball RPI

[Tech77]

Not an emotional reaction at all. Go back and read what I posted last week. I said we needed to win 8-9 of our last 10 for me to feel good about our at-large chances heading into the C-USA Tourney. We've already lost 2 of 4. You are only focused on what the RPI on WarrenNolan says each day and assume Top 45 earns an automatic at-large bid. A win last night would've bumped us up to ~31. That is a very big blown opportunity. This loss wasn't good for our resume at all even though it had little effect on our RPI. Now another one of our good midweek results is now a split... just like Arkansas and McNeese. And it gave a rival team with a good baseball reputation on the wrong side of the bubble a big boost. The FIU loss on Sunday wasn't as big a deal because we already won the series. We can't claim a split vs. ULL as a series win. At this point our only Top 100 series wins are Old Dominion (clinging to Top 50 at the moment), FIU (RPI 77), UTA (RPI 81), and Rice (who is 5 games below .500), and then we have a single midweek win over Mississippi State. That resume just isn't that impressive, definitely not as good as last year's resume. Our 2 remaining series are against 100+ RPI teams that won't help our RPI or resume at all.

I think last night was a tough assignment after a long trip on the weekend, which ended in disappointment. Tired players who were down a little bit mentally. And we were playing a very motivated team in front of a large, rabid (some of them need to be tested) crowd.

[sportdawg]

d1baseball.com has us as a 3-seed @ TCU https://d1baseball.com/postseason/fi...ection-may-10/

[sportdawg]

baseball america 3 seed at MS State http://www.baseballamerica.com/colle...6oBD6e0UFBB.97

[rlirette]

Louisiana Tech

Remaining: 3 home, 4 road, 0 neutral
Current RPI: 40
ROWP: 0.502

Top 45:

1 home wins, 4 road wins
2 home wins, 2 road wins
3 home wins, 1 road wins

Top 32:

3 home wins, 3 road wins

Top 16:

No way to reach the threshold.

Top 8:

No way to reach the threshold.

Obviously this is before the ULL game

[dawg80]

Teams in the 40s get left out, but it's usually due to factors like quality wins. Do you have examples of past bias when a deserving team was left out?

Yes

[PawDawg]

Yes

What I thought, you got nothing.

[Dawg06]

Louisiana Tech

Remaining: 3 home, 4 road, 0 neutral
Current RPI: 40
ROWP: 0.502

Top 45:

1 home wins, 4 road wins
2 home wins, 2 road wins
3 home wins, 1 road wins

Top 32:

3 home wins, 3 road wins

Top 16:

No way to reach the threshold.

Top 8:

No way to reach the threshold.

Obviously this is before the ULL game

Nope. It's updated every morning. The RPI Needs Report is assuming Tech's "postponed" game with ULM still gets played.

[Bearpaw]

Today (5/11) RPI at 39 (+1) on Warren Nolan. FIU 77, UNCC 76, Rice 57, FAU 55, ODU at 42, USM 17

[rlirette]

Nope. It's updated every morning. The RPI Needs Report is assuming Tech's "postponed" game with ULM still gets played.

Well that's dumb. Well, in any case, I thought that was an interesting scenario list. Interesting that we can get to top 32 at all.

[dawg80]

What I thought, you got nothing.

Yes = affirmative

[Bearpaw]

Yes = affirmative

What I thought, you got nothing.

I think he means as you have ZERO examples to provide, you have nothing

[PawDawg]

We are at 40 going in tonight. Marshall is at 101.

[dawg80]

I think he means as you have ZERO examples to provide, you have nothing

I've got examples...the teams and the years. But, he's so made up his mind that there are NEVER, absolutely NEVER, any teams left out in favor of less-deserving teams, that it is pointless to provide said examples. He'll just find some excuse to try to explain it away.

It is comforting to know the baseball committee is 100% flawless. Too bad the basketball committee ain't.

[PawDawg]

I've got examples...the teams and the years. But, he's so made up his mind that there are NEVER, absolutely NEVER, any teams left out in favor of less-deserving teams, that it is pointless to provide said examples. He'll just find some excuse to try to explain it away.

It is comforting to know the baseball committee is 100% flawless. Too bad the basketball committee ain't.

You got nothing.

[Dwayne From Minden]

38 after the win tonite...