re: D1baseball projections (May 18): LSU hosts, paired with UVA national #7

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You realize these predictions aren't by just "some people that run a website" right? These people are college baseball analysts and probably know what the committee is more likely to do than you or I do. It's how tournaments are done. The top natty seeds have the easiest path to Omaha and the lower natty seeds have a tougher route.

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Yeah, I do know that. Doesn't make their predictions accurate. I challenge you to provide evidence that they predict accurately and/or that the top seeds get the easier path to Omaha.

I'll provide evidence to the contrary right now. In 2014, LSU was the number 8 overall seed in the NCAA tournament, but got stuck with the number 10 RPI team (Houston) in their regional. So, LSU got a team that was probably good enough to host in their region...and look what happened.

That same year Indiana was the number 4 overall seed. Its regional was paired up against the number 8 RPI Vanderbilt team that probably could have been a national seed that year. Same thing happened to the number 6 national seed Illinois last season. They also got paired up with a top 10 RPI Vandy team.

So...good luck finding your evidence.

Edit: Last season LSU was the overall 2 seed. The weakest host sites were UCSB and Cal St.-Fullerton. UCSB was matched up with #1 UCLA, while Fullerton was matched with #3 Louiville...not LSU. AND Fullerton was lower in the RPI than UCSB to boot. Strangely, LSU got matched up with a higher rated Houston regional. I wonder why that is?

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I realize how the NCAA does it, but the way D1 does it is more of a ranking system than a regional match up.

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Then you did a terrible job of stating that this was your argument.