re: College Baseball Polls (March 20th)

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RPI kinda sucks

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RPI ratings are pretty much bullshite at any time, but especially early in the season.

That said, I suspect that a couple of reasons for our poor RPI are

1- 11 of our 20 games (LC doesn't count) have been vs. teams outside the top 100 in RPI. Four have been 200 or worse. Fortunately, at least we are 11-0 in those games, but they still hurt our RPI. Only four of our games have been against top 50 teams, and we are 1-3 in those four.

2- 15 of our 20 games have been at home, and only two have been true road games. RPI penalizes you for playing at home, win or lose, rewards you for winning on the road and punishes you less for losing on the road. We have lost both of our road games, so we have not been rewarded for a road win yet.