RPI Tracker

Baseball
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24 Games in and 6 Games into Conference, the Cougars sit at 128 with a big weekend series against #42 TCU on deck.

17 Texas (Game Canceled)
22 UTRGV (0-1)
32 DBU
42 TCU (3 games this weekend)
48 Lamar (4/22 Game)
66 UTSA
67 Baylor (3 games next weekend)
73 Tech (swept, 0-3)
77 HCU
97 A&M (5/6 game)
128 UH
162 Texas State
188 Rice (1-0, 2 more)
192 SFA (1-0)
194 UTA (2-1)
198 SHSU (1-2)

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They were at 112 before SFA….all of these cupcakes will keep them off the bubble.

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#19 Oregon St. (Cancelled)
#26 McNeese

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I think the team needs to finish no worse than 15-9 in the remaining 24 conference games and win at least 33/34 games overall with a solid conference tournament showing to sniff a regional bid.

So essentially its winning every remaining series and almost every midweek game.

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Probably about right……

I don’t think this team has the talent or the coach to get them there….but there is a reason they play the games.

The midweeks are sooooo bad……even a win against A&M is not a huge jolt anymore.
If they lose ANY midweek games it’s gonna hurt.

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The McNeese game would be good right now but I am sure their RPI will go down as they continue to play Southland games.

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Moving backwards after the TCU Series. From 128 to 151. While not impossible, certainly hard to see a path improving 80-100 spots in the RPI.

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Question re: RPI for those who know this stuff…

Is your RPI effected by what ‘tonight’s opponent’ does later in the year? For example, if you play Texas State in February when they have an RPI of 125 due to a slow start but they catch fire in late March/April and shoot up to the 30s, does that help your RPI? I know it works that way for ‘quad’ wins in hoops but I couldn’t find the answer for baseball RPI.

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Yes.

If a team you previously played gets better or worse that will affect your own RPI.

Not sure why baseball has not switched over to NET.

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Thanks.

All these ranking systems feel like voodoo to me but they have to be better than polling.

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Never thought I’d see Houston Christian rated higher in the RPI than UH.

Is there any chance that Whitting’s seat is starting to leave burn blisters on his butt?

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I said this the other day, Houston Christian is better than UH. If they play on the weekend or the midweek HC can do more than just hold their own. The only game they would be against the odds, would be Friday night, if Schmitz and Jean are slated to go.

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I finally decided to poke around on the D1Baseball.com site and saw that we have the #232 ranked Strength of Schedule, based, it would appear, mostly on the fact that out non-conference SoS is #291…291!!! I know the weak schedule has been discussed here a lot but that number is kind of eye-opening.

Tech, for comparisons sake, has the #2 SoS, #6 out of conference.

I realize we don’t control our conference SoS but scheduling the pre-conference games like we do is really inexcusable.

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Yep.

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Been happening for years….unless the team wins the conference tournament they have no shot at the NCAA tournament.

Same sh-t , different year.

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You want harder than UT?

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Playing one offs against a couple of good teams in the midweek, while playing Grambling in a three game series, sets you back from an RPI perspective.

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He does not get it….no use trying.

He’s gonna hang on to the two games that were cancelled as the proof that TW tried to schedule difficult teams.

And like I said I know OSU wanted to play……they didn’t travel all the way down here to not to….but no sense in letting things like that get in the way of a perfectly good narrative.

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No doubt!

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We dropped 3 spots to #130 after beating Rice.