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Williams deciding to come home for FSU after the pitcher had looked him back was a wild decision
 
D1 still had them in their four to watch this week, and first four out last week
 
Still not ranked, yet Virginia remains ranked despite 3 more losses in conference, 4 more losses overall, and a worse Q1 record.

Not to mention all the ranked SEC teams with losing conference records.

We've got flaws no doubt, but at some point don't the games and records have to matter?
 
ewcanes said:
Still not ranked, yet Virginia remains ranked despite 3 more losses in conference, 4 more losses overall, and a worse Q1 record.

Not to mention all the ranked SEC teams with losing conference records.

We've got flaws no doubt, but at some point don't the games and records have to matter?
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The NCAA is beholden to the RPI in baseball, and to the SEC in all sports. Can't blame them in baseball honestly w as many natties they have won since the turn of the century. The football and basketball bias is another story IMO.
 
ewcanes said:
Still not ranked, yet Virginia remains ranked despite 3 more losses in conference, 4 more losses overall, and a worse Q1 record.

Not to mention all the ranked SEC teams with losing conference records.

We've got flaws no doubt, but at some point don't the games and records have to matter?
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I honestly have not watched the teams ranked ahead of us that much. But our flaws are huge and would probably cause us to lose a series against the majority of those teams ranked ahead.

We still cant hit decent pitching consistently, our defense is among the worst in the COUNTRY, not conference...but the country, and lets just not talk about our bullpen.
 
Heard yesterday we’re 270th out of 308 teams defensively - errors per game.

This doesn’t even include the mental mistakes and other mistakes that don’t qualify as errors - like not getting a bunt down or popping it up and base running errors. Combine this with all the walks and it’s impressive we’re even above 500 honestly.
 
CanesFan23 said:
Heard yesterday we’re 270th out of 308 teams defensively - errors per game.

This doesn’t even include the mental mistakes and other mistakes that don’t qualify as errors - like not getting a bunt down or popping it up and base running errors. Combine this with all the walks and it’s impressive we’re even above 500 honestly.
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It’s not a good baseball team. Not likely any of our flaws are magically fixed this late in year but if they magically were this team does have crazy potential….

Unfortunately the chances of meeting that potential with 3 weeks of regular season baseball is slim to none
 
I was looking into the ranking discrepancies and noticed some interesting data regarding our strength of schedule I took FSU as an example since we are dead tie in ACC record. Our opponents' combined record is 402 wins and 320 losses, resulting in a 55.68% winning percentage. In comparison, FSU’s opponents have a record of 491-330, which is a 59.80 winning percentage. This difference in strength of schedule could be the primary reason why they are ranked and we are not, despite our team having a better overall record.
 
Letetespinosa said:
I was looking into the ranking discrepancies and noticed some interesting data regarding our strength of schedule I took FSU as an example since we are dead tie in ACC record. Our opponents' combined record is 402 wins and 320 losses, resulting in a 55.68% winning percentage. In comparison, FSU’s opponents have a record of 491-330, which is a 59.80 winning percentage. This difference in strength of schedule could be the primary reason why they are ranked and we are not, despite our team having a better overall record.
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Yeah - scoring 700 runs against Lehigh and Lafayette was fun but ultimately did not do much for us. I'd love to see us go to one of those tournaments in Texas or Arizona to start the year - kind of like florida state did (and their athletic department is in shambles). But that costs money, and we are (apparently, still) running a mom-and-pop shop that's trying to compete against Walmart.

That said, we are the only major conference team with over 30 wins that doesn't currently have a number. The teams that have a record comparable to ours and are unranked are Mercer, SE Missouri and Cal Baptist. I guess that's the company we now keep?
 
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