D1Baseball Nerdcast: 5/20/24 - Projecting Field of 64 Update: LSU in (link posted)

We have the best record of anybody at 13-17 vs quad 1-2 at 18-18

They agree there’s no doubt LSU is one of the best at large teams right now. I think we’re going to be in even with a loss to UGA. May be the last team in though.

you also have to keep in mind with head to head, some of these 13-17 teams will get that extra win
it would be in lsu's best interest to win against UGA and if not LSU has no argument if left out

They put 11 SEC schools in. Didn’t really say who would be the last of that bunch in

They have all 5 13-17 teams in as a 3 seed. That’s what I was saying yesterday. If any of those would be a 2 seed it would be Bama because of their RPI at #18

Tigers are in baby.

VS #2 Arizona @ NC State

Sign me up for that.

Yeah they don't even have lsu as the last 4 in. Lsu is in over vandy and south Carolina at this point

Glad to see they are pretty on par with what me and Mike said in my pinned post. I feel like we would not even be the next 3-4 before the last four in bases on their projections. They have Kansas St, TCU, Georgia Tech, and UCF all in as well which I agree but metrics wise all those teams are behind us. The only argument against us compared to those teams would be they want to limit the SEC amount of teams.

IMO, either 11 SEC teams (new record) or Vandy is left out.

They have us in Okie State’s regional instead of NCSUs FYI

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I think Vandy is out

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I think it is Florida.

The #1 SOS is great and all, but you have to actually win games. 28-26 is not a NCAA Tournament team.

They lost to FSU 3 times. They lost to Setson. It took a surprising 2/3 performance this past week just to have are record about .500.

If the selection committee puts them in they are saying "Actually winning the games is not that important as long as schedule tough." To that end, Florida has a bigger advantage in the scheduling department because their are several solid programs within the state of Florida. That is a HUGE advantage when putting together a non-conf. schedule in college baseball. Unlike in basketball where it is much easier for teams to play non-conf. games against other teams all over the country, it's much more difficult to do in baseball for a few reasons:

1. By and large, baseball is not a profit generating sport. That means the budgets are lower, which means there aren't the funds there to fly teams all over the country every week to play one maybe two midweek games against other good teams. Thus, most schools are left to play mid-week games against other schools within a relatively close geographic region (for travel and cost purposes). If you don't have many good programs close to you it is difficult to put together a great non-conf. schedule.

2. Baseball teams play 50+ regular season games. Almost twice as much as basketball teams and almost 5x as much as football teams. If baseball team flew around the country weekly to play a great non-conf. schedule the players would never go to school. You'd fly somewhere on a Monday. Play on Tuesday. Go to class on Wednesday. And (in some instances) fly out again on Thursday to play Friday-Sun. Again, that makes you beholden to your geography.