Someone was asking in the thread below where CAA fit within the baseball world. These are the conference RPIs as of 4/15 - 2005 conference alignments, obviously.
Rank Conf RPI
1 SEC 0.6020
2 ACC 0.5661
3 B12 0.5620
4 P10 0.5617
5 BigW 0.5467
6 ASUN 0.5395
7 CUSA 0.5384
8 SoCon 0.5271
9 WAC 0.5247
10 BigS 0.5217
11 WCC 0.5175
12 SLC 0.5159
13 B10 0.5155
14 MVC 0.5104
15 SBC 0.5082
16 CAA 0.5074
17 BigE 0.5069
18 MAC 0.4851
19 Hor 0.4664
20 MW 0.4639
21 A10 0.4516
22 Ind 0.4511
23 OVC 0.4504
24 Ivy 0.4430
25 AE 0.4363
26 Pat 0.4334
27 MidCon 0.4255
28 NE 0.4158
29 MAAC 0.4157
30 SWAC 0.4082
31 MEAC 0.4078
Wow... I knew A-Sun had gotten off to a strong start, but I didn't know we were that strong!
Yep, been flip-flopping with CUSA for the 6th spot for a month or two now.
So do you mean that those standings have UCF in C-USA, GSU in the CAA and Troy in the Sunbelt?
No offense to our conference, but it's not the 6th best conference in the country...and if the top 3 teams are not included - then that number is as bogus as they come.
I'll wait for the exaplanation though!
No. I meant that it's current configuration, so all those teams are in the ASUN.
It may not be the sixth, but it's not any worse than 8th. It's been in the 6-8 range all year.
Current pRPI ranks:
39 UCF
46 Stetson
59 Georgia State
80 Belmont
82 Florida Atlantic
84 Mercer
88 Troy
93 Jacksonville
94 Campbell
105 Lipscomb
147 Gardner-Webb
That's 9 teams in the top 100 - only the SEC has more (12). The Big 12 and CUSA have 8.
And what really helps the average is that even G-W is just barely out of the top half of D1.
Record vs other conferences:
Conf ASUN-W ASUN-L Win%
SWAC 7 0 1.000
A10 6 0 1.000
MW 3 0 1.000
Ivy 3 0 1.000
NE 3 0 1.000
MidCon 2 0 1.000
MAC 9 1 0.900
MEAC 18 4 0.818
MAAC 9 2 0.818
OVC 14 4 0.778
SBC 7 2 0.778
AE 2 1 0.667
BigE 7 4 0.636
MVC 7 4 0.636
B10 4 3 0.571
BigS 5 5 0.500
SLC 2 2 0.500
CUSA 9 11 0.450
SoCon 9 14 0.391
ACC 3 9 0.250
SEC 1 10 0.091
B12 0 2 0.000
CAA 0 1 0.000
Wow, I wouldn't have seen that one coming. Thanks JPK!
With the conference rated so high, how many teams might get an at-large bid? I guess it depends on who wins the conference tournament.
If the season were over today, it would likely be 2, 3 if one of the top 2 did not win the tournament.
But what's good is that the more conference games you play, the better the RPI will get 'cause there's no real RPI-killers on the conference schedule.
So... by the time it really IS selection Sunday, there's a chance that could be 3 or 4 instead of 2 or 3.
JPK can you add a link to your website in your profile or signature?
First day here. We'll see if this works like I think it should.
OK, it does.
All the stats and standings stuff is on the link on the side labeled "SE Central".