2021 NCAA Baseball

[WBT 20650]

3 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

See 2018. 

aggy beats Texas 6-5 in College Station and they go insane. A few months later Texas beats them in the Austin regional and advances to the College World Series. 

This is nothing new for those weirdos. 

To be fair, we only beat them once.  aggy failed to make it out of the losers' bracket to play us again when they lost to *checks notes* baseball power Indiana

[Huckleberry 33062]

47 minutes ago, WBT said:

Looks like you forgot to apply your west of the Mississippi demerits.

But one thing to definitely keep in mind is that these aren't park adjusted so things like Arizona's OFF/DEF split should be taken with a chunk of salt.

[texasstrong12 4668]

1 minute ago, WBT said:

To be fair, we only beat them once.  aggy failed to make it out of the losers' bracket to play us again when they lost to *checks notes* baseball power Indiana

That regional was hilarious. 

A few days after Liucci went on about a hour rant about Texas fans being classless because they chanted "SEC SEC" after their SS dropped a pop up. I need to go find that segment from Texags radio and post it here. 

Edited April 26, 2021 by texasstrong12

[Fletch 5800]

On 4/26/2021 at 3:45 PM, texasstrong12 said:

See 2018. 

aggy beats Texas 6-5 in College Station and they go insane. A few months later Texas beats them in the Austin regional and advances to the College World Series. 

This is nothing new for those weirdos. 

Knocking them out in 2014 was fucking glorious. Would love to have em as the 3 seed in our regional but they’re not making the tournament. Maybe they can win the sec tournament for us so we can once again end their season 

[Machinator 32099]

#4 Tennessee lost at home to Lipscomb. Midweek games are weird.

[Machinator 32099]

 

[petscii 1189]

20 minutes ago, Machinator said:

 

So they were going to do it early to give schools extra time to covid proof things, now four of them will do it for nothing?  

I mean great for the NCAA to get the schools to jump when they say jump I guess.

[Machinator 32099]

 

[Guest Lobo]

Not really, it's 20 legit bids and then 26 bids from Aggies in trench coats and fake mustaches pretending to be other, real schools.  

[NorthLoop 14222]

1 hour ago, Lobo said:

Not really, it's 20 legit bids and then 26 bids from Aggies in trench coats and fake mustaches pretending to be other, real schools.  

Thank God there are no internet polls involved. 

[Gatorubet 30285]

Gata just took tonight’s game from Vandy. Sunday is the rubber match.

Dores look solid.

[Gatorubet 30285]

https://www.wruf.com/headlines/2021/05/02/florida-gators-baseball-tops-no-2-vanderbilt-commodores/

Took the Vandy series with a rain delay 5-3 win Sunday

[Cajun 11722]

Man, Gata is the definition of bi-polar.

Great series win right there.

[NorthLoop 14222]

The last regional projection I saw had Gata in our regional. Someone's gonna be pissed if they get them as their #2. 

[Guest Lobo]

^

yeah, these guys had Florida as our #2 for a long time.  Now, it's Arizona State.  They're latest projection should be out late this afternoon:

https://www.collegesportsmadness.com/baseball/bracketology

I realize they gotta geographically spread out the SEC teams, but Florida's playing well enough now to get to stay closer to home as a #2, or contend for outright regional host at this point.  Although they play my former program on Tuesday, the Stetson Hatters.  When people ask you what happened here, tell them 'The Hat Remembers.'

[Cairn Horn88 8278]

3 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

https://www.wruf.com/headlines/2021/05/02/florida-gators-baseball-tops-no-2-vanderbilt-commodores/

Took the Vandy series with a rain delay 5-3 win Sunday

So, Vandy loses series against Florida, but Vandy doesn’t drop in rankings,   Hmmm.

[Pescado_Rojo 19427]

2 hours ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

So, Vandy loses series against Florida, but Vandy doesn’t drop in rankings,   Hmmm.

Do you even SEC, Bro? 

[Cairn Horn88 8278]

1 hour ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Do you even SEC, Bro? 

Hmmm  =  secsec!

[Gatorubet 30285]

Man, Gata is the definition of bi-polar.
Great series win right there.

Lobo and you are correct. We’ll likely lose 9-1 to Stetson.

[Gatorubet 30285]

https://amp.gatorsports.com/amp/4946384001

Beat scrappy Stetson for 11th win in the last 13 games. We might get a regional yet!

[Guest Lobo]

Dammit!  Gators stave off a late Stetson rally and win 7-6.  Stetson hosts Florida in De(ad)Land next Tuesday and must win to avoid the season sweep.  We're having a okay season, but not good.  Shouldn't hurt you in the RPI/SOS.  We tend to average a tournament appearance 1 in every 2 years for the past 40 years.  Hoping we win our conference tourney and get an auto-bid, we're due.  

 

Only started following these guys in the last two years, so not terribly sure about their track record.  But this week's looks wildly different from last week:

https://www.collegesportsmadness.com/baseball/bracketology

Texas moves down from #3 to #6, still paired with Arizona State which makes sense geographically...Pac-12 has to ship their non-hosts somewhere.  Regional fills out with Miami and NCCU.  Granted ASU and Miami are having good but not great seasons, that would just be a very hyped regional based on the names involved---Texas, Miami, Arizona State.  28 CWS Finals appearances and 15 National Championships.  Unless Pac-12 foes Arizona, USC, and Oregon State magically get shoved in a regional together, our projected one would be the most illustrious ever assembled in one regional.  I would have to think.  

Has Florida hosting at #12 with UNC-Charlotte, Florida State, and UNC-Wilmington.  

[NeverMarryAStripper 21920]

When I went in 2018 I had no problem getting good seats for cheap from the scalpers outside right before the game.  I wonder how it's going to be this year.

[Machinator 32099]

 

[NorthLoop 14222]

Not sure I trust the "Championship Oversight Panel" to make the right decision. 

[Guest Lobo]

Yeah, was George Orwell named commissioner of NCAA baseball and we missed it?  

We have always been at war with the NorthWorthia.

Edited May 6, 2021 by Lobo

[Beau Vine 54353]

 

[Gatorubet 30285]

Friday loss to Kentucky. WTF? Had to score 4 in the 9th inning to beat them tonight. We are certifiably insane.

[NorthLoop 14222]

Yeah but UK is an SEC team so yall get another free pass.

[Dnaguy 12036]

19 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

 

 

Police had a suspect.... but he somehow got away.

[Gatorubet 30285]

Ole Miss pounding Aggy. 12-2 in 7th

About to be 6-17 in SEC play.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21920]

Yeah but they beat UT so it's all good

[Huckleberry 33062]

[Herpa Derpa 6127]

[Guest Lobo]

what is "SDEV"?  

[Machinator 32099]

Standard deviation was my assumption

Edited May 10, 2021 by Machinator

[Huckleberry 33062]

Correct. Standard deviation of performance by game. 

[Guest Lobo]

That makes more sense.  Because the SDEV just seemed to be a bunch of deviations.  I was looking at Baylor in the 30's and us at #201 and wondering what the fuck we were deviating from except societal norms, consensual sex, decent well-rounded educations, and respect for women.  Turns out, it was on a per-game basis.  Point taken. 

[Levi 2592]

12 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

That defense is *chefs kiss*

[jw4381 3093]

1 hour ago, DoneWithit said:

That defense is *chefs kiss*

For us morons, what does the 4.03 mean?

Edited May 11, 2021 by jw4381

[Huckleberry 33062]

On average we will allow 4.03 fewer runs to a team than their offensive rating (OFF).

[jw4381 3093]

10 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

On average we will allow 4.03 fewer runs to a team than their offensive rating (OFF).

Thank you kindly. I would not have guessed that in 1 million years.

[NorthLoop 14222]

Yeah if I had to have blind guessed that, I would've said Vandy was #1

[Huckleberry 33062]

Well while Disch-Falk is overrated as a pitchers park by most Texas fans, these are not park adjusted at all (see: Arizona's absurd OFF rating).

[NorthLoop 14222]

1 minute ago, Huckleberry said:

Well while Disch-Falk is overrated as a pitchers park by most Texas fans, these are not park adjusted at all (see: Arizona's absurd OFF rating).

Yeah it looks like they win a lot of 10-9 type games. Do they play in a little league park? 

[Huckleberry 33062]

Well it's dry and semi-elevated (about 2400 feet). It's actually a pretty big park. No idea on prevailing wind direction but it's not as bad historically as the UNM and NMSU parks.

[TrashMaster G 17584]

Anybody seen any updated field projections?

[Machinator 32099]

D1Baseball usually releases projections every Tuesday.

[TornACL 7722]

They're up now. Has us as #3 paired with LA Tech's regional. 

 

https://d1baseball.com/projections/projected-field-of-64-may-11/

[Guest Lobo]

collegesportsmadness comes out about 20-24 hours ago, but it's not up yet for this week.  They don't quite have the baseball acumen of D1 but they do pay good attention to geographic/conference restraints that sometimes other sites overlook who are usually just hung up on RPI/rankings/"gut feelings" 

Edited May 11, 2021 by Lobo

[TrashMaster G 17584]

17 minutes ago, TornACL said:

They're up now. Has us as #3 paired with LA Tech's regional. 

 

https://d1baseball.com/projections/projected-field-of-64-may-11/

I could deal with that.