tylerdurden24

Yeah unfortunately I’m SOL as in-person attendance is concerned. Thought about even trying to make the Friday night and drive back late but we’ve got a baseball tournament starting at 9 the next morning so probably not the best idea :lol:

Sometimes you just gotta have a good ol pissing match during the lunch hour :cheers:

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No excuse playing a NC SOS in the 200’s…. Especially when you are about 100 miles away from about a dozen Top 100 RPI teams you could schedule.

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I’m not disagreeing with your here, our non con sucked and our own fanbase grumbled about it. But Wes has done it by design for the past 3 years as it allows a portal heavy team time to gel and test out different lineups and pitchers in different spots. It’s quite obviously paid dividends come conference play the last 3 seasons. This year in particular, though, the competition just wasn’t as good or didn’t end up performing as well in their own right as in years past (which is what truly sucks about RPI; 75% of the metric has nothing to do with your own on field performance but instead how the teams you’ve played and the teams they end up playing do).

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Also, Georgia has four Quad 3 and/or Quad 4 losses… that offsets that Q1+2 Win % real fast. Auburn and MS State have zero such bad losses. Texas and Texas A&M have just one each.

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Only one loss of which happened on a weekend against Wright State in the opening series of the season (same team btw that bounced Vandy from the Nashville regional last year only to go 24-23 this year. Again can’t control how other teams do after we schedule them). Troy, KSU, and Western Carolina all came early in the year against midweek pitching.

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You have to look at all these things in their entirety. And RPI+DSR+KPI does a pretty good job of showing the entire picture.

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In proper proportion, sure. But there’s a pretty good reason why our DSR and KPI (hell even ELO) skew pretty far from what RPI says; RPI is the statistical outlier at 14 compared to a 6 DSR, 7 KPI, and 3 ELO

Neat. So there should be a huge disparity in how teams actually performed against all that competition right?

Winning percentage vs Q1 & Q2 competition:

.650 - Georgia (13-7)
.583 - Texas (21-11)
.576 - Bama (19-14)
.571 - Auburn (20-15)
.563 - Florida (18-14)
.560 - Texas A&M (14-11)
.552 - Arkansas (16-13)
.500 - Miss State (14-14)
.500 - Tennessee (12-12)
.478 - Kentucky (11-12)
.471 - Oklahoma (16-18)
.455 - Ole Miss (15-18)

Sorry that South Carolina and LSU sucked this year but we beat who we played.

lol they finally caught so much backlash that they’ve updated their methodology. I think Georgia should be at least 5 and Texas behind us but I can live with Auburn ahead of us in this instance.

I don’t think this has been addressed either but UGA and UF both got seeding boosts in 2024 because of Condon and Cags. I’d imagine UGA with Jackson, ASU with Hairston, A&M with Sorrell, etc will all get some consideration for the draw (didn’t mention Roch for UCLA and Lackey for Tech since they’re already virtual locks for the 1-2 seeds).

We are definitely a much more polished offense this year. For comparison:

Last year we hit .288 as a team. This year we are batting .328

Last year OPS was .975. This year 1.074

Last year Slugging was only .564. This year it’s .629

We have already surpassed last years hit total (currently at 584) and are 18 bases shy of matching last years total bases number (despite having 18 less walks).

We are also 4 HRs away from matching last years HR total and 11 away from tying the program record set in 2024.

We’re just a better set of bats that is consistently making clutch hits

It says something about the state of things that 1) I’m only now seeing this and 2) I just cannot be bothered to care. This would have ruined my day 5-10 years ago and now it’s such a waste of time to get worked up over because we all know why they flip and we all know it’s probably not going to be their final destination even if they make it to Coral Gables in the first place.

It hurt more when the flip felt like a referendum on your school or coaching staff. Now it’s just about the better financial offer on the table. Which makes it even less important to care that a kid ever committed in the first place.

I want to care about recruiting again. I miss following it and the results actually mattering.

You’re leaving out that Auburn also lost 2 conference series, including being swept by Bama.

UGA only lost 1 series and hasn’t been swept all year, but has swept 4 conference opponents (including at Miss State) compared to Auburns 1 (Mizzou)

If you can cancel midweek games against shitty teams to prevent your RPI from dropping (and by extension affect the RPI of others) it’s a stupid metric to live and die by.

Example: UNC cancelled their game with Queens College of Charlotte last week entirely to spare them the RPI hit and, in the process, hurting UGAs RPI since we played Queens College earlier in the year.

Too, assigning equal weight to our loss vs Western Carolina on a Tuesday early in the year as our loss at Ole Miss on Friday two weeks ago is dumb for all the reasons we can reasonably understand.

Georgia should do more in its non conference to prevent this being a thing but also… we’re 21-6 vs an SEC schedule. The RPI die hards arguing against us on reddit and Twitter are knowingly arguing in bad faith just to be pedantic.