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RE: Stanford Baseball 2024 - Maple Leaf - 05-27-2024
(05-26-2024, 08:56 PM)stanfordite Wrote:(05-26-2024, 02:10 PM)martyup Wrote:(05-25-2024, 10:07 PM)stanfordite Wrote: I have bet money on the conference reforming in less than 20 years.
With or without the SoCal traitors?
With. Uncle Sam uses legislation that forces them against their will back to Pac and requires all conferences to be regional again as well as capping all conferences at no more than 10 teams which subsequently resurrects the Big 8 and SWC conferences.
Agree 100%, I feel that catalyst for regional conferences will be the players. Just too much travel and time away from classes and campus, players have started expressing their concerns on these two issues. Anyone who has had to travel for business purposes on a routine basis knows what a royal pain this can be. Add also the quality of play will suffer.
RE: Stanford Baseball 2024 - Sam Leopold - 05-27-2024
I don't care what the RPI says, Cal (36-19) being left out of the tourney in favor of Florida (28-27) was a brutal snub, to put it tactfully. And the bias of the RPI in favor of the southeastern conferences and against the west coast is well-documented.
And I know that Cal is supposed to be our bitter archrivals, but for personal reasons, I'm a bit of a Berkeley sympathizer......
RE: Stanford Baseball 2024 - JJJ - 06-22-2024
(05-27-2024, 12:38 PM)chrisk Wrote: SEC sets record with 11 teams in the NCAA Baseball Tournament. The SEC received 10 of the 34 at-large selections.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/college/SEC/2024/05/27/2024-ncaa-baseball-tournament-sec-record-11-teams-college-world-series-cws-tennessee-kentucky/73870240007/
With the SEC leading the way with its record-setting mark, here’s a list of the conferences that received at least two bids to the 2024 NCAA Tournament:
SEC: 11
ACC: 8
Big 12: 6
Sun Belt: 4
Big Ten: 3
Pac-12: 3
American: 2
Big East: 2
Big West: 2
Conference USA: 2
Missouri Valley: 2
Completely lost interest once we weren’t involved, and I didn’t know that CWS was still going on, or that Braden Montgomery’s season is over due to injury. Best of 3 started today with TAMU leading Tenn at the moment. Going to tune out now…
RE: Stanford Baseball 2024 - TonyLima - 06-22-2024
(05-27-2024, 01:28 PM)Sam Leopold Wrote: I don't care what the RPI says, Cal (36-19) being left out of the tourney in favor of Florida (28-27) was a brutal snub, to put it tactfully. And the bias of the RPI in favor of the southeastern conferences and against the west coast is well-documented.
And I know that Cal is supposed to be our bitter archrivals, but for personal reasons, I'm a bit of a Berkeley sympathizer......
Agree 100%. Used to be east coast media bias. Now it’s SEC.
RE: Stanford Baseball 2024 - StanfordMatt - 06-22-2024
(06-22-2024, 07:21 PM)TonyLima Wrote:(05-27-2024, 01:28 PM)Sam Leopold Wrote: I don't care what the RPI says, Cal (36-19) being left out of the tourney in favor of Florida (28-27) was a brutal snub, to put it tactfully. And the bias of the RPI in favor of the southeastern conferences and against the west coast is well-documented.
And I know that Cal is supposed to be our bitter archrivals, but for personal reasons, I'm a bit of a Berkeley sympathizer......
Agree 100%. Used to be east coast media bias. Now it’s SEC.
Is it really bias if the best teams are in the SEC? Five of the final six in Omaha were SEC teams including the Gators.
RE: Stanford Baseball 2024 - TonyLima - 06-23-2024
(06-22-2024, 07:44 PM)StanfordMatt Wrote:(06-22-2024, 07:21 PM)TonyLima Wrote:(05-27-2024, 01:28 PM)Sam Leopold Wrote: I don't care what the RPI says, Cal (36-19) being left out of the tourney in favor of Florida (28-27) was a brutal snub, to put it tactfully. And the bias of the RPI in favor of the southeastern conferences and against the west coast is well-documented.
And I know that Cal is supposed to be our bitter archrivals, but for personal reasons, I'm a bit of a Berkeley sympathizer......
Agree 100%. Used to be east coast media bias. Now it’s SEC.
Is it really bias if the best teams are in the SEC? Five of the final six in Omaha were SEC teams including the Gators.
Let me put it this way. If all the teams in the SEC were selected for the tournament, there's a good chance they would be the only conference in the CWS. More teams in the tournament means higher probability of making it to CWS.
RE: Stanford Baseball 2024 - CTcard - 06-24-2024
(06-23-2024, 04:15 PM)TonyLima Wrote:(06-22-2024, 07:44 PM)StanfordMatt Wrote: Is it really bias if the best teams are in the SEC? Five of the final six in Omaha were SEC teams including the Gators.
Let me put it this way. If all the teams in the SEC were selected for the tournament, there's a good chance they would be the only conference in the CWS. More teams in the tournament means higher probability of making it to CWS.
This chicken and egg issue is one piece of the puzzle.
The SEC, right now, is undoubtedly the best baseball conference. How much so is not so clear - on top of the fact that in baseball once things are reasonably competitive, the better team wins a much smaller percentage of the time than in most sports.
There is no doubt that having more rolls of the dice is substantially helpful to the SEC's success in the NCAA tournament.
Another piece of the puzzle is the horrendous use of RPI by the baseball (and softball) tournament committees. Anyone who has paid attention knows that it is a terrible power rating (basketball dropped it for that reason) that has both regional and schedule-construction issues, but they keep using it ... as far as I can tell simply because they've always used it.
With 11 of 14 SEC teams making the tournament, that means 5 teams with a losing conference record made it (curiously all at 13-17).
More to our own immediate concern is the ACC.
The ACC has a general reputation as the second best baseball conference. They have a history of putting a lot of teams into the tournament, a reasonable number reaching Omaha, then never winning the title (they do have 2 titles: Wake in 1955 and UVa in 2015).
This year the ACC had 8 teams make the tournament: 6 had winning conference records and two were at 0.500. One team with a winning conference record did not make the tournament (Louisville 16-14, 32-24).
[In the Pac 12; cal, USC, ASU and Utah all had winning conference records and did not make the tournament. Only Arizona, OSU, and Oregon made it. Two of those went to a super regional.]
My own belief is that after scrapping the RPI for something more reasonable, the NCAA should then ban any team with a losing conference record from an at large bid to the tournament. It's possible that will lock out a "better" team, and in fact could hurt Stanford in the ACC, but it's hard to argue that a team with a losing conference record really deserves to advance and this would serve to keep the sport more broad based.
[Softball was worse with 13 of 13 SEC teams making the tournament - and in softball it isn't even that the SEC is the best conference (or at least not obviously so). In this case 4 teams with conference losing records made the tournament, including as bad as 7-17. The Pac 12 had 7 teams, one with a losing conference record (Cal). The Big 12 was top heavy with 5 teams making the tournament, 1 with a losing record. The ACC had 5 teams in the tournament, all with conference winning records. ]
[p.s. It was 4 of the final 6 in Omaha from the SEC. Florida State and North Carolina, both ACC, were in the final 6.]
RE: Stanford Baseball 2024 - TonyLima - 06-27-2024
(06-24-2024, 10:43 AM)CTcard Wrote:(06-23-2024, 04:15 PM)TonyLima Wrote:(06-22-2024, 07:44 PM)StanfordMatt Wrote: Is it really bias if the best teams are in the SEC? Five of the final six in Omaha were SEC teams including the Gators.
Let me put it this way. If all the teams in the SEC were selected for the tournament, there's a good chance they would be the only conference in the CWS. More teams in the tournament means higher probability of making it to CWS.
This chicken and egg issue is one piece of the puzzle.
The SEC, right now, is undoubtedly the best baseball conference. How much so is not so clear - on top of the fact that in baseball once things are reasonably competitive, the better team wins a much smaller percentage of the time than in most sports.
There is no doubt that having more rolls of the dice is substantially helpful to the SEC's success in the NCAA tournament.
Another piece of the puzzle is the horrendous use of RPI by the baseball (and softball) tournament committees. Anyone who has paid attention knows that it is a terrible power rating (basketball dropped it for that reason) that has both regional and schedule-construction issues, but they keep using it ... as far as I can tell simply because they've always used it.
With 11 of 14 SEC teams making the tournament, that means 5 teams with a losing conference record made it (curiously all at 13-17).
More to our own immediate concern is the ACC.
The ACC has a general reputation as the second best baseball conference. They have a history of putting a lot of teams into the tournament, a reasonable number reaching Omaha, then never winning the title (they do have 2 titles: Wake in 1955 and UVa in 2015).
This year the ACC had 8 teams make the tournament: 6 had winning conference records and two were at 0.500. One team with a winning conference record did not make the tournament (Louisville 16-14, 32-24).
[In the Pac 12; cal, USC, ASU and Utah all had winning conference records and did not make the tournament. Only Arizona, OSU, and Oregon made it. Two of those went to a super regional.]
My own belief is that after scrapping the RPI for something more reasonable, the NCAA should then ban any team with a losing conference record from an at large bid to the tournament. It's possible that will lock out a "better" team, and in fact could hurt Stanford in the ACC, but it's hard to argue that a team with a losing conference record really deserves to advance and this would serve to keep the sport more broad based.
[Softball was worse with 13 of 13 SEC teams making the tournament - and in softball it isn't even that the SEC is the best conference (or at least not obviously so). In this case 4 teams with conference losing records made the tournament, including as bad as 7-17. The Pac 12 had 7 teams, one with a losing conference record (Cal). The Big 12 was top heavy with 5 teams making the tournament, 1 with a losing record. The ACC had 5 teams in the tournament, all with conference winning records. ]
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RE: Stanford Baseball 2023-2024 - JJJ - 08-19-2024
(10-02-2023, 03:47 PM)Nobadeer Wrote: The Chicago Cubs missed the MLB postseason by a game. Nico Hoerner (LSJU class of '19) hit .283 in 688 plate appearances, with 9 HR, 27 doubles, 68 RBI, 98 runs scored, and 43 steals (4th in NL and 6th in all of MLB). Only 9 errors in 667 plays in the field, for a sparkling .987 fielding percentage.
The Cubs' arch rival St. Louis Cardinals had their worst season since 1990, at 71-91. Tommy Edman '17 hit .248 in 528 plate appearances, with 13 HR, 25 doubles, 47 RBI and 27 steals. He scored only 68 runs, down from 95 a year ago. Similar to Hoerner, Edman committed only 8 errors in 560 plays in the field, for a .986 fielding percentage.
And for your manager-less, card playing, music-blaring-after-losing SF Giants, Austin Slater '15 hit .270 in 207 plate appearances, with 5 HR, 9 doubles, 20 RBI and 2 steals. .980 fielding percentage (2 errors in 100 plays in the field).
Tommy Edman is starting at CF for LAD today (so far 0 for 2).