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Baseball: Texas drops in the polls after dropping two games to Texas A&M

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3 hours ago, Jeff Howe said:

D1Baseball's RPI has Texas No. 2 as well, behind only UCLA:

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Ignorant question, but shouldn't RPI be the same regardless of the publication? Like, I think it's a rote formula. Just like someone's OPS should be the same regardless of who's calculating it. But I'd be more interested if I'm wrong! 

Of note on pearratings… A&M (6), Auburn (8), OU (11) all rated higher than our top 2 remaining opponents. (Miss St-12, Bama-14.)

 

Given we have Miss St and Bama at home, hopefully the data won’t lie 

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8 minutes ago, AZ Longhorn said:

Ignorant question, but shouldn't RPI be the same regardless of the publication? Like, I think it's a rote formula. Just like someone's OPS should be the same regardless of who's calculating it. But I'd be more interested if I'm wrong! 

Not an ignorant question. The biggest discrepancy is the SOS rankings, both for overall and out of conference. D1's Nitty Gritty has Texas' non-conference SOS 30 spots lower than Warren Nolan.

But I don't know if those directly impact the calculations or vice versa.

24 minutes ago, Jeff Howe said:

Not an ignorant question. The biggest discrepancy is the SOS rankings, both for overall and out of conference. D1's Nitty Gritty has Texas' non-conference SOS 30 spots lower than Warren Nolan.

But I don't know if those directly impact the calculations or vice versa.

Thanks for the response. Interesting. I didn't know SOS (and therefore RPI) was not standardized. 

29 minutes ago, AZ Longhorn said:

Thanks for the response. Interesting. I didn't know SOS (and therefore RPI) was not standardized. 

Me either.  But it makes sense regarding the strength of schedule.  One could easily have a different methodology on that.  I think for certain midweek games should be categorized differently.

I believe Vandy got a bump last year, as played out in the committes mind anyway, that propelled them based on their SEC tourney run even though every game they faced a further down the line starter than they threw.

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