BengalBeaux

College Baseball needs to go to an electronic strike zone. There's not enough competent umps to call all of the games.

I’ve never understood why D1 four team regionals are set up as they are where the winners of the first day’s game play each other on the second day. This “Present Bracket” guarantees that for the remainder of the regional one team will have a pitching advantage.
Why instead isn’t it set up that on the second day, the Winner of Game 1 plays the Loser of Game 2 and the Winner of Game 2 plays the Loser of Game 1. We’ll call this the “Alternative Bracket”. With this arrangement there are three possible outcomes:
A) Both Winning Teams from Day 1 also win on Day 2
B) Both Losing Teams from Day 1 win on Day 2
C) One Winning Team from Day 1 wins on Day 2 while the other Winning Team from Day 1 loses on Day 2.
If outcome “A” occurs, then two teams are eliminated and you’re left with the two remaining teams playing a three game series against the other on equal pitching.
If outcome “B” occurs, then all four teams are still in contention. In this event the teams would each play the team they’ve not played yet in an elimination game. The two teams surviving the elimination game would then meet in a single game to determine the champion. Once again, pitching is equal throughout the tournament.
Lastly, if outcome “C” occurs, then you’re effectively left with the precise same situation you have after the second day now, where one team is 2-0, two teams are 1-1, and one team is eliminated. In this event, the team that’s 2-0 will enjoy a pitching advantage.
The Present Bracket” system always results in a team having a pitching advantage after Day 2. Using the “Alternative Bracket”, it’s possible that one team will emerge with a pitching advantage after Day 2, but also very possible that teams will compete on even pitching though the entirety of the tournament.
Can anyone explain why the “Present Bracket” is used instead of the “Alternative Bracket”?

I don't know what the exact language of the rule is; but honestly, it's irrelevant. Precedence is what matters. When in your life have you ever seen a fumble ruled in this manner. Think of all the onside kicks that are recovered right at the sideline along with all the players losing control of the ball and juggling it when they went out of bounds. Have any of these even once been declared "ball is dead because it was touched by an out of bounds player"?

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Do you have specific data for LSU and Alabama?

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2007 - Tom Ritter - LSU 41-34, This is when he first got our attention calling 14 penalties on the Tigers for 130 yards and nary a one on the Tide. There were also a couple key on the field calls made Alabama's way that were reversed in the replay booth.
2008 - Penn Wagers - Alabama 27-21 in OT
2009 - Tom Ritter - Alabama 24-15 - Patrick Peterson INT ruled incorrectly on the field. Looks like they smartened up and fired the replay booth guy from 2007 because this shitty call didn't get reversed.
2010 - Matt Austin - LSU 24-21
2011 - Tom Ritter - LSU 9-6 - no incidents but of course the whole world was watching, so the officials were under a magnifying glass. Of course, the Bammers still complain about the Reed INT.
2012 - Hubert Owens - Alabama 21-17
2013 - Matt Austin - Alabama 38-17
2014 - Tom Ritter - Alabama 20-13

I'll preface by saying LSU primarily needs to look at LSU for not winning this game. The dropped passes, lack of QB development, and high school JV designed offensive scheme just to name a few of the problems. However, I'm also convinced there is consistent officiating bias for Alabama and I think Ritter and his crew are at the center of it.

It just seems that Ritter is the official officiating crew of the University of Alabama. I could swear (but have no proof) that they are the officiating crew for more than half of the games Alabama plays.

And it's not just total penalties, it's ball spots, no-calls, and of course timing of penalty calls. More so, if Ritter's crew is calling as many Alabama games and particularly every key game, as I think they are, it gives them a tremendous edge just in the fact that they're more familiar with the officiating crew than the other team.

Against LSU, I know for a fact, they were the crew for the 2007, 2009, 2011(reg season game), and of course this year. I'm pretty sure they were the officiating crew for the 2008 game. I do know factually that they were not the officiating crew for the 2010 game. For the other years, I'm not sure.

Going forward, I'm going to do my best to keep a database of all officiating crews for each SEC game from here on out and hope to have poster's help in spotting the crews so I can update my database. If Ritter's crew or any other crew are inordinately calling a majority of a specific team's games, it needs to be addressed and corrected.

Of course, I've already tried to find a website that list the officiating crews for games played but have not been able to do so. If someone knows of one, please provide a link. Also, if someone has the intelligence to hack into the SEC's computer database and get this data, well, I'm not a fan of hacking, but that would be a wonderful use of your hacking abilities.

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I've at least presented evidence.

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Nope, as I've explained before, you've presented crap that you've erroneously claimed was proof, evidence, etc..

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You haven't presented a damn thing except hot air.

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I've presented my opinion and the reasons I have the opinion I have.

You've also presented your opinion which I respect, as everyone has a right to their opinion. What I don't respect is your incorrect, misleading, and false claims that what you're presenting is proven fact.

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You ignore anything contrary to that point.

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I've been looking for contrary evidence since 2006 in the way of the replay official ruling against Auburn. Hadn't seen it, if you know of an instance, please share it with me so that I can go back to believing everything is honkty-dory on the up-and-up when you play a game at Jurden-Hare.

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Replay has to be held to the standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt" in overturning calls, because if it wasn't, you would have these exact same arguements. If you could not - via video evidence - tell if a fumble was coming out or not before the runner was down, and the officials on the field ruled no fumble and then the replay booth said it was a fumble and the other team gets possesion, that would explode just as many conspiracy theories. The call on the field has to be the basis of truth and evidence has to be overwhelming to override that.

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Do you honestly believe even a fraction of the bullshite you're spewing. I've watched a lot of Auburn football. Not once, not nary a time, has the replay official at Jurden-Hare ruled anything against Auburn. I'm sure you don't control it or are responsible for it; so don't take it personally, but the University of Auburn is blatant cheaters.

Wiki, I'm happy for you that you're excited about your stats class and are now trying to use quantitative analysis to answer this question, but here's the problem, not all answers can be obtained by quantitative analysis.

In order to make any real determinations, you need to know what penalties were called and just as important, what penalties weren't called, at what point in the game they were called, against what competition were they called, etc..

If you're really interested in the truth, You'd actually have a much better chance of arriving at it by studying white papers regarding human behavior.

But on the up side if you wish to pursue a career in quants, I see a bright future for you as a climate change researcher. :lol: :lol: :lol:

I think we got some calls in that game due to being #1 at the time and the SEC's best bet.

But it's not chronic the way it is with Bammer and the Barn. I think Bammer and the Barn consistently get the calls, and yes, primarily because of the SEC Headquarters location.

JWTiger, Don't you find it at least a little wierd that a booth review in a meaningful game has never gone against Auburn?