Improved Consensus Poll - UT #5

by Tubilidentata on Apr 20, 2009 5:21 PM CDT

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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If You Have a "psuedo RPI" Can Texas be #1?

by realmccoy on Apr 20, 2009 6:25 PM CDT reply actions

This is great

Thanks for posting these each week

--PB--

by Peter Bean on Apr 20, 2009 8:29 PM CDT reply actions

It's a blast doing this exercise. Glad it's appreciated. Will also tell me, some day, which poll is most accurate.

by Tubilidentata on Apr 21, 2009 11:11 AM CDT up reply actions

I might take a crack at that after finals

by ryanlionrah on Apr 22, 2009 10:55 AM CDT up reply actions

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

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

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