2026 Baseball Mega Thread

[BambooRdApp]

BEAT... THE... STINK!

[311neers]

Serious question....On the RPI/Net rankings in baseball, does it hurt more to lose to a 200 net team or help more to win against a 100 net team? I am 100% sure in my mind all of our efforts should be placed on winning against Sunbelt teams.....but.....but...sometimes my mind leans to do we really want a news story locally that we lost to Queens or WCU or whatever small college vs a non local news story of we lost to Louisiana. I guess the question is where would you throw your best pitcher?

Hurts more to lose to 200 net. (Gwebb, Queens, A&T, any of the St. teams from the NE). Most of our OOC is made up of Q4 teams minus midweeks.

A win always helps.
Away wins/losses are weighted the most.
If you're going to lose, lose to a top 100 team and do it away.

https://www.warrennolan.com/baseball/20 ... hian-State
3 Quad 4 games this week end vs the Stink.

We sit at 101 RPI today- pretty solid!!! (We were 191 in after week 6)
This is a must win series at home for a lot of reasons (rival-screw Stink, SBC standings, RPI metrics) against a 200+ ranked team.

Home games like this are really a no win situation for us from a RPI perspective. Regardless of a W or L we drop points in RPI.

Yep a win at home vs 200+ isn’t much.

We did jump 2 spots to 99th!

[BUTCH1991]

Game time for today is now 6:00.

[appstate24]

Serious question....On the RPI/Net rankings in baseball, does it hurt more to lose to a 200 net team or help more to win against a 100 net team? I am 100% sure in my mind all of our efforts should be placed on winning against Sunbelt teams.....but.....but...sometimes my mind leans to do we really want a news story locally that we lost to Queens or WCU or whatever small college vs a non local news story of we lost to Louisiana. I guess the question is where would you throw your best pitcher?

Hurts more to lose to 200 net. (Gwebb, Queens, A&T, any of the St. teams from the NE). Most of our OOC is made up of Q4 teams minus midweeks.

A win always helps.
Away wins/losses are weighted the most.
If you're going to lose, lose to a top 100 team and do it away.

https://www.warrennolan.com/baseball/20 ... hian-State
3 Quad 4 games this week end vs the Stink.

We sit at 101 RPI today- pretty solid!!! (We were 191 in after week 6)
This is a must win series at home for a lot of reasons (rival-screw Stink, SBC standings, RPI metrics) against a 200+ ranked team.

Home games like this are really a no win situation for us from a RPI perspective. Regardless of a W or L we drop points in RPI.

Yep a win at home vs 200+ isn’t much.

We did jump 2 spots to 99th!

Does RPI really matter at this point? Feels like we need to win the tourney to get in.

GO APPS!!

[Stonewall]

Not in reality. Just something to talk about.

[spacemonkey]

As someone has pointed out during basketball season, a top 100 in basketball is like a to 50 in football fbs. (138 in FBS) There are 300 in d1 baseball. I also like to look at where we are to non p4 teams. 99th is pretty strong. Now, that being said, I have no idea how legit the rankings are but I would think they would be just as legit as top 25 rankings in Football.



vs. RPI Teams
vs. RPI Teams
RPI
1-25 1-6
26-50 1-3
51-100 6-5
101-200 16-2
201+ 0-0

[AppFan11]

RPI is good for comparisons…. shows growth or decline beyond wins/losses

[JTApps1]

As someone has pointed out during basketball season, a top 100 in basketball is like a to 50 in football fbs. (138 in FBS) There are 300 in d1 baseball. I also like to look at where we are to non p4 teams. 99th is pretty strong. Now, that being said, I have no idea how legit the rankings are but I would think they would be just as legit as top 25 rankings in Football.



vs. RPI Teams
vs. RPI Teams
RPI
1-25 1-6
26-50 1-3
51-100 6-5
101-200 16-2
201+ 0-0

This would be 3 out of 4 years inside the top 100 if we can finish the season strong. I know we all want to see a post season birth, but that would be a notable accomplishment if we stay there.

[311neers]

Kendall Rogers has his eye on us and mentioned our solid RPI lately.
We would probably have to run the table deep into the SBC to have a shot and maybe upset Wake.

Playing our best ball. Keep winning and maybe we play ourselves back into that conversation.

[311neers]

RPI is good for comparisons…. shows growth or decline beyond wins/losses

Probaly an aspect of our recruiting pitches too.
Go 1-0 today!

[Stonewall]

Again , in the context of making the NCAAs that ship has sailed. We have to win in Montgomery to get a bid .

[BUTCH1991]

Peterson struggling with the strike zone early again

[Stonewall]

Ouch. What a start. Try throwing strikes!

[BUTCH1991]

Gonna need some of those runs from last night

[BUTCH1991]

Seward 2 run blast to tie it at 3

[BUTCH1991]

Good thing the bullpen wasn't used last night. 70 pitches in 3 innings isn't good

[biggie]

Took the lead 6-3. Still 1st and 3rd, 2 out.

[Stonewall]

Left em loaded. Up 8-4.

[BUTCH1991]

Can't believe Peterson pitched the 7th and breezed through it

[Bootsy]

410
427
458

1,295 feet of homers for Kam in the first four innings.

12-2 for the home team Top 5th.

That buzzing sound we hear is coming from Kam’s agent’s pocket…the P4 squads are blowing the guy’s phone up right about now.