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Regions sorted by average Massey Rating

I like the table a lot. Gives a great overview of the different regionals.

That is Massey's own computer power ranking, not the Massey composite (not that you said anything different, just for clarification). I started doing a similar table with Boyd Nation's ISR, but it was similar enough that it wasn't worth the effort.

It's worth looking at the same table based upon RPI. I think that will tell us something about how the committee went about their business.

Host                 1 seed       2 seed       3 seed        4 seed          Average
Stanford             10              21               34              117            45.5
Oregon St           20             23               39                96             44.5
Mississippi         22             28               38                78              41.5
Georgia                3              37               50              107            49.25
Vanderbilt           1              24               86              126             59.25
Ok State               7             29                35             100             42.75
Texas Tech         11            25                27              150              53.25
N Carolina          12            14               40               147              53.25
LSU                    16            33               45               138             58.0
W Virginia          13            15               44               135              51.75
Arkansas              6            30               59               184              69.75
UCLA                   2            32               77                198             77.25
Louisville             9            36               26               187              64.5
Miss State            4            17               73               206              75.0
E Carolina            5           18                56               177              64.0
Ga Tech               7            19                57              235              79.5



For the most part, you can see that the committee built the field on the RPI.


Among the 1 seeds, OSU and Mississippi have been heavily discussed as the two hosts who were promoted vs their RPI.

Among 2 seeds, the only teams notably promoted above their RPI ranks were Florida Atlantic in the Georgia region and Indiana in the Louisville regional. The latter is part of the one odd swap, as the committee penalized the third seed in the Louisville regional, Illinois State, vs their RPI to the point where Indiana and Illinois State would appear to be swapped as seeds. While the non-RPI computer rankings don't think the two were swapped, I don't know enough about midwest baseball to know what the committee was thinking there.


At the other end of the 3 seeds, vs 4 seeds, there's a single minor swap but pretty much true to RPI.

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Regions sorted by average Massey Rating

I like the table a lot. Gives a great overview of the different regionals.

That is Massey's own computer power ranking, not the Massey composite (not that you said anything different, just for clarification). I started doing a similar table with Boyd Nation's ISR, but it was similar enough that it wasn't worth the effort.

It's worth looking at the same table based upon RPI. I think that will tell us something about how the committee went about their business.

Host                 1 seed       2 seed       3 seed        4 seed          Average
Stanford             10              21               34              117            45.5
Oregon St           20             23               39                96             44.5
Mississippi         22             28               38                78              41.5
Georgia                3              37               50              107            49.25
Vanderbilt           1              24               86              126             59.25
Ok State               7             29                35             100             42.75
Texas Tech         11            25                27              150              53.25
N Carolina          12            14               40               147              53.25
LSU                    16            33               45               138             58.0
W Virginia          13            15               44               135              51.75
Arkansas              6            30               59               184              69.75
UCLA                   2            32               77                198             77.25
Louisville             9            36               26               187              64.5
Miss State            4            17               73               206              75.0
E Carolina            5           18                56               177              64.0
Ga Tech               7            19                57              235              79.5



For the most part, you can see that the committee built the field on the RPI.


Among the 1 seeds, OSU and Mississippi have been heavily discussed as the two hosts who were promoted vs their RPI.

Among 2 seeds, the only teams notably promoted above their RPI ranks were Florida Atlantic in the Georgia region and Indiana in the Louisville regional. The latter is part of the one odd swap, as the committee penalized the third seed in the Louisville regional, Illinois State, vs their RPI to the point where Indiana and Illinois State would appear to be swapped as seeds. While the non-RPI computer rankings don't think the two were swapped, I don't know enough about midwest baseball to know what the committee was thinking there.


At the other end of the 3 seeds, vs 4 seeds, there's a single minor swap but pretty much true to RPI.