http://www.boydsworld.com/baseball/rpi/currentrpi.html

Division I Overall
Rank Rating W L W L Team

1 0.743 3 0 3 0 Wichita State
2 0.684 11 3 11 3 Miami, Florida
3 0.682 12 3 12 3 East Carolina
4 0.680 15 2 15 2 Arizona State
5 0.675 19 2 19 2 Texas
6 0.670 11 3 11 3 Rice
7 0.660 12 2 12 2 Louisiana State
8 0.660 13 1 13 1 Virginia
9 0.660 11 5 11 5 Florida State
10 0.648 11 2 11 2 William and Mary
11 0.648 15 3 15 3 Stanford
12 0.647 11 0 11 0 Mississippi
13 0.645 11 1 11 1 Southern Mississippi
14 0.643 14 2 14 2 Texas A&M
15 0.639 5 1 5 1 Penn State
16 0.638 12 0 12 0 South Carolina
17 0.634 11 2 11 2 Tennessee
18 0.632 15 3 15 3 Florida
19 0.627 2 4 2 4 Youngstown State
20 0.626 12 4 12 4 Texas Tech
30 0.597 8 9 8 9 Texas State
32 0.595 7 5 7 5 Texas-San Antonio
35 0.592 9 10 9 10 Cal State Fullerton
38 0.588 11 3 11 3 Missouri
40 0.585 10 3 10 3 Oklahoma
44 0.581 8 7 8 7 Texas Christian
45 0.580 5 9 5 9 Houston
46 0.577 10 4 10 4 Oklahoma State
48 0.576 12 3 12 3 UC Irvine
56 0.568 11 9 11 9 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
61 0.564 7 6 7 6 Texas-Arlington
62 0.564 11 5 11 5 UCLA
70 0.560 11 5 11 5 Arkansas
73 0.558 8 4 9 4 Kansas State
77 0.554 6 3 6 3 Nebraska
92 0.538 11 7 11 7 Santa Clara
99 0.528 4 10 4 10 Baylor
132 0.499 10 4 10 4 Lamar
134 0.498 4 9 4 9 Sam Houston State
214 0.415 14 8 14 8 Kansas

South Alabama ranked #54 despite a 3-8 record.

Arkansas only #70 despite 11-5 record.

Santa Clara, this week's opponent, #92 with an 11-7 record.

Luckily for the Ags, both S. Alabama and Santa Clara should do much better once conference play starts. Their RPI numbers may not improve, but they should both end up with semi-respectable overall records.

Has anyone looked at Wichita State's Schedule this year? They could have one of the easiest schedules I've ever seen.

http://www.goshockers.com/teams/baseball/schedule.asp

You're joking, right? They play Long Beach, Oklahoma, Arizona State, Nebraska, ULL, UCLA. Try looking at some of the SEC teams' OOC schedules. You cant blame Wichita for being in the MVC. And even thats no cakewalk--there's always some tough teams in that conference. SMS made the CWS last year remember.

Now that I look further into it, you're right. I should've pointed out that they play very few teams from major conferences. Yes, LBSU, Arizona State, and Nebraska are very good. UCLA is a decent team. I don't know anything about ULL baseball, but if they are like most of their other sports, that can't be good. As for OU, you can't honestly tell me that they were scheduled as a difficult opponent.

As for their conference schedule, most of those teams would get destroyed week in and week out in a major conference.

It is the same argument for Rice. They play a decent to tough out of conference schedule, but their conference schedule is cake.

[This message has been edited by AGSmith (edited 3/9/2004 2:51p).]

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I don't know anything about ULL baseball, but if they are like most of their other sports, that can't be good.

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You're right, you don't know anything about ULL baseball. It's their prize sport and usually are a solid team. They've beaten some good teams at the Houston tournament for the past few years.

so a couple games vs longbeach, ou, and arizona state (avg rpi = 47) along with 1 vs nebraska, 2 vs ucla (1 good pitcher and an rpi in the 60's) and 3 vs ULL (133 rpi) is a tough schedule? i think we have a couple of times where in 2 weeks we play tougher competition than they play all season. How bout a 1 week example...we play rice followed by tech (3 game set) followed by texas state...thats 5 games vs top 30 rpi teams. not to mention the baylor series (a team that could definately be CWS material if they get the sticks workin) the weekend before all of this. Im not sayin that wsu has the easiest schedule or we have the toughest, but theirs is pretty damn easy

edit: i realize rpi is worthless right now, just using it in my example cause thats the topic of this thread and it helps my point a little

[This message has been edited by byron06 (edited 3/9/2004 3:02p).]

ULL is usually a solid squad.

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Yes using RPI is worthless. ASU and Long Beach State are top 10 teams. The point is almost every team on the optional part of their schedule is at least a decent team. And the league they play in, which again IS NOT OPTIONAL, is better than you give them credit for. All in all, its probably one of the top 10 schedules among teams in non-power conferences. And the OOC part of it is stronger than probably half the teams in the SEC or ACC. So to call it one of the easist schedules you've ever seen is ridiculous. And to back that argument up by comparing it to A&M's schedule including conference games is disingenous.

i agree 3rdward, i just wanted to argue

Ah yes, it must be baseball season, time for 3rd Ward Owl and Trader Jorge to pull out the WAC defense file.

Boyd is more fond of his ISR ratings as a measure of strenght. http://www.boydsworld.com/baseball/isr/currentisr.html

In those ratings, UCLA is #22, Santa Clara is #23, Arkansas is #31, and South Alabama is # 62. The top 64 go as follows:

1 135.5 19 2 19 2 15 Texas
2 132.9 15 3 15 3 11 Stanford
3 129.6 15 2 15 2 40 Arizona State
4 128.8 11 3 11 3 18 Rice
5 128.3 11 0 11 0 66 Mississippi
6 128.1 12 2 12 2 42 Louisiana State
7 127.9 14 2 14 2 49 Texas A&M
8 126.7 12 3 12 3 31 UC Irvine
9 124.9 10 3 10 3 34 Oklahoma
10 123.6 10 4 10 4 27 Loyola Marymount
11 123.3 11 1 11 1 73 Southern Mississippi
12 122.9 11 4 11 4 38 Long Beach State
13 122.4 11 3 11 3 50 Missouri
14 121.3 12 3 12 3 57 East Carolina
15 120.6 9 6 9 6 14 Arizona
16 120.6 7 5 7 5 10 Louisiana-Lafayette
17 120.0 9 10 9 10 3 Cal State Fullerton
18 119.6 7 4 7 4 28 Washington
19 119.5 15 7 16 7 41 Cal Poly
20 119.3 8 9 8 9 4 Texas State
21 119.3 9 3 12 3 55 Washington State
22 118.6 11 5 11 5 48 UCLA
23 117.6 11 7 11 7 30 Santa Clara
24 117.2 11 3 11 3 69 Coastal Carolina
25 116.6 9 7 9 7 25 San Jose State
26 116.1 11 5 11 5 56 Florida State
27 116.0 11 3 11 3 78 Miami, Florida
28 115.8 12 4 12 4 67 Texas Tech
29 115.4 11 2 11 2 95 Tennessee
30 115.4 10 4 10 4 64 Oregon State
31 114.9 11 5 11 5 59 Arkansas
32 114.8 5 9 5 9 1 Houston
33 114.8 9 5 12 5 52 Dallas Baptist
34 114.3 10 2 10 2 96 North Carolina State
35 113.9 10 11 10 11 16 California
36 113.7 9 11 9 11 12 UC Riverside
37 113.6 5 9 5 9 5 Southern California
38 113.4 10 6 10 6 53 Nevada-Las Vegas
39 113.4 10 4 10 4 71 Oklahoma State
40 113.3 8 7 8 7 32 Texas Christian
41 113.2 15 3 15 3 105 Florida
42 112.8 9 8 11 11 36 Cal State Sacramento
43 112.4 12 0 12 0 148 South Carolina
44 112.3 9 7 10 7 47 UC Santa Barbara
45 112.2 11 9 11 9 46 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
46 112.2 8 4 9 4 65 Kansas State
47 112.1 7 8 7 8 24 San Francisco
48 112.1 5 11 6 11 2 San Diego
49 112.1 16 1 16 1 135 Florida Atlantic
50 112.0 13 1 13 1 133 Virginia
51 112.0 5 6 5 6 20 North Carolina-Asheville
52 111.8 7 12 7 12 9 Fresno State
53 111.7 11 2 11 2 117 William and Mary
54 111.7 9 2 9 2 110 Richmond
55 111.2 9 6 9 6 58 Pacific
56 111.1 10 4 10 4 84 Lamar
57 109.7 4 10 4 10 6 Baylor
58 109.6 10 3 10 3 107 Tulane
59 109.6 7 6 7 6 51 Texas-Arlington
60 109.5 13 7 14 7 77 Hawaii
61 109.0 8 6 8 6 61 Louisiana-Monroe
62 108.6 3 8 3 8 7 South Alabama
63 108.1 13 1 13 1 152 Auburn
64 108.0 8 5 8 5 75 Georgia Tech


[This message has been edited by Gap (edited 3/9/2004 4:29p).]

AgSmith,
Oklahoma is ranked #20 in the BA poll, #17 in the USA TODAY/ESPN poll, and #21 in the Collegiate Baseball poll....

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