Big money vs little money in college baseball

AI’s answer: “That’s baseball.”

It truly is. “That’s Baseball “. The winner of the MLB World Series this year wil prob lose 50-60 games. Many to bad teams way worse than them. The game lends itself to strange unpredictable scores. Timely wins and good baseball fortune is necessary. No teams will win 80% of the time like other sports. Enjoy the long strange trip.

If you want to understand, trend the average age of MLB rookies from the 1980’s to today…
Stop thinking about this as a single variable “analysis”. There are multiple layers of variables at play to any given roster at any given time with any given match-up.
Back before there was online gambling and all the apps, people used to get the newspaper and read the lines then call their bookie to place a bet. You had to know a hell if a lot more about the team, its players and their opponents. Algorithms have eliminated it for the most part and collectively lowered the collective knowledge of fans.
My point is Jay has stated on MULTIPLE occasions about the importance of older players. You can’t shortcut experience with ability once you’re at a certain level. For example, a .375 hitter one season may hit .325 the next and people think he is not hitting as well. It very well could be he was hitting behind another good to excellent hitter and in front of another. Pitchers have to show him more pitches.
You guys probably think Bill James Sabermetrics was from the 1990’s and not 1970’s.

The only team that gave the 2025 College Baseball National Champs problems in the postseason, and was very close to eliminating them in their own regional, was a team with a losing record in Little Rock. College baseball is the best sport because of all the parity, and how any team can beat anyone, on any given day. In today’s world of college athletics, it’s very refreshing to still see that the teams with all the money, still can’t control the sport. Can’t say the same about College Basketball and Football.

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Your whole point was to be a bitch.
The fricking game is 27 fricking outs your fricking tool.

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you got mental problems? Wtf Take your medicine and calm down. Nobody was bitching, what i said was reality and how fine the line is between winning and losing, what is and what could have been. The fact is evident that several schools fork out millions and nothing comes of it while others fork out peanuts and win. I felt that was an interesting park of college baseball.

Are you glad I responded to your immature tantrum? You need a hug? Smdh.

Stockpiling pitching, which is especially important in the regionals, is likely more difficult now than it was pre-transfer portal which may add to randomness.

You saw teams like A&M completely depleted of pitching by the end of the regional.

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you got mental problems? Wtf Take your medicine and calm down. Nobody was bitching, what i said was reality and how fine the line is between winning and losing, what is and what could have been. The fact is evident that several schools fork out millions and nothing comes of it while others fork out peanuts and win. I felt that was an interesting park of college baseball.

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I gave your dumbass a logical explanation on the thread. You failed to read it and then posted the Little Rock “almost beating LsU last season”. This season you lose your ace for the entirety of the SEC and number 2 for 3 weekends considering how that arm issue came on.
That’s not how it fricking works dumbass. Go back and read the post about how the frick old some players are in smaller schools and the average age of MLB rookies. Look at the fricking draft changes, etc etc.

These random small schools will make a run for one or two years and then never be heard from again. Fresno State and Stony Brook for example. So yeah some team spending little will hit the lottery once in a while, but sustained success is almost impossible. Schools spending lots of money will have down years but more success overall.

There’s making it to the post season, and there’s making it to Omaha.

Schools like East Carolina can win their conference and make it to a regional, but are they really serious contenders?

Then, even among the “power” conferences, Arizona had 34 scholarship players this year. Oklahoma State had less than half of that.

I couldn’t tell you exactly why but Kansas for example signed 8 juco players and a D3 transfer for its current squad. Those are guys who know how to grind and just love playing baseball. Will that equate into a championship? Probably not but they’ve had a heck of a season so far.