Improved Consensus Poll - UT #5
I've added in the Pseudo RPI to my matrix as this late in the season the numbers are less wonky! UT made a manly jump! You're gonna love my work!
| Adj. Rank | Team | Avg. Rank | Poll Total | Coll. Bball | NCB WA | USA TODAY | Baseball America | Rivals | Ping Baseball | PGCross checker | Pseudo RPI |
| 1 | North Carolina | 2.88 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| 2 | Arizona State | 3.38 | 27 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| 3 | UC Irvine | 4.13 | 33 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 4 |
| 4 | Georgia | 4.50 | 36 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| 5 | Texas | 4.75 | 38 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 |
| 6 | Rice | 5.13 | 41 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 |
| 7 | Georgia Tech | 5.75 | 46 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 |
| 8 | LSU | 8.50 | 68 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 19 |
| 9 | Cal St. Fullerton | 9.63 | 77 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 9 | 3 |
| 10 | Arkansas | 10.00 | 80 | 7 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 8 |
| 11(t) | Virginia | 13.50 | 108 | 11 | 16 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 10 |
| 11(t) | Baylor | 13.50 | 108 | 17 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 17 | 10 | 16 |
| 13 | Mississippi | 14.00 | 112 | 13 | 11 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 23 |
| 14 | Oklahoma | 14.25 | 114 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 18 | 19 |
| 15 | Miami | 14.63 | 117 | 18 | 12 | 11 | 18 | 17 | 13 | 23 | 5 |
| 16 | Florida State | 17.38 | 139 | 15 | 10 | 16 | 21 | 13 | 31 | 15 | 18 |
| 17 | Cal Poly | 18.00 | 144 | 12 | 17 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 21 | 17 | 34 |
| 18(t) | TCU | 19.25 | 154 | 20 | 20 | 22 | 16 | 21 | 20 | 24 | 11 |
| 18(t) | Texas A&M | 19.25 | 154 | 16 | 18 | 17 | 24 | 19 | 15 | 16 | 29 |
| 20 | Coastal Carolina | 21.50 | 172 | 23 | 19 | 19 | 26 | 32 | 16 | 25 | 12 |
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This is great
Thanks for posting these each week
--PB--
by Peter Bean on Apr 20, 2009 8:29 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
SEC Bias in college baseball
Just an observation here. Three of the four SEC teams are ranked by voters much higher than their RPI numbers. Only Arkansas is ranked more or less in line with it’s RPI. Just more confirmation of the SEC bias we find all over the college baseball world.
What I am worried about. The NCAA selection committee will look at the parity in the Big-12 and conclude the league is down this year and give it four or five bids. The same committee will look at the parity in the SEC and conclude that once again parity exists there because all the teams are so amazingly good and give the SEC nine bids, …. again. I hope I am just being cynical.
www.rockchalktalk.com for pretty good KU baseball coverage
by James Quinn on Apr 23, 2009 10:06 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Nice post . . . but . . . SEC has 4 in top 20 and so does Big 12. I agree with SEC bias, but hope selection committee is not drinking to KoolAid.
by Tubilidentata on Apr 24, 2009 8:35 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think the SEC might be as good as the Big-12 in baseball this year.
So it might be just fine they both have four teams in the top-20 each. It isn’t so much the top of the list that worries me, it is more the NCAA selection comittee’s perception of the mid-pack teams. Last year the SEC was the 4th rated conference by RPI in the nation, yet the NCAA selection comittee sent 9 (NINE!) SEC teams into the tournament. The Big-12 had a higher conference RRI and only got six teams into the tournament.
That seems to be a trend. I worry about it this year more than most because KU (the team I follow) is a bubble team this year. If KU gets passed over this year while the selection committee panders to the SEC again and hands out bids to two or three SEC teams rated under KU I’ll be pretty unhappy. The way the Baseball RPI is set up (no distinction between home and away games) most SEC schools already have artificially inflated rankings.
www.rockchalktalk.com for pretty good KU baseball coverage
by James Quinn on Apr 24, 2009 10:08 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Since Texas dropped one game to Rice
I imagine we drop to 17-20…/sarcasm
"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden
by run Bevo run on Apr 24, 2009 7:14 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

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