Top 25 Tracker -- No Change at the Top, Miami Jumps Nine Spots

by KingJamesIV on Apr 26, 2011 10:00 AM EDT in Vanderbilt Commodores Baseball

The AOG Top 25 NCAA Baseball Tracker keeps track of the five main college baseball Top 25 polls. Teams are ranked based on composite score across the various polls. There are other composite rankings out there. Some of them only use four sources. This uses five and is thusly one louder. Four is for sissies and people who like ties. Having five sources helps break ties. No big deal.

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Δ - Change in ranking from last week to this week (green is a positive jump - from 3rd to 1st; red is negative)
ESPN - ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll
BA - Baseball America
PG - Perfect Game
NCBWA - National Collegiate Baseball Writers of America
CB - Collegiate Baseball
Note: To be eligible for conclusion, a team must in the top 25 of at least one of the five polls. This list will vary in length depending solely on the deviation between the various polls.

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They're not giving up on this Oregon State thing, are they?

Pop quiz: What’s more impressive?

A.) Playing a 4-14 SEC team at home, scoring a sweep and 31 runs in the process
B.) Playing a 3-12 Pac-10 team at home, winning 2 of 3, losing a shutout, and outscoring them 11-10 cumulatively

Answer: NEITHER, but at least Team A did what was expected against a cellar-dwelling opponent.

And somehow Oregon State still jumps in three polls, and holds the #3 slot in another.

I guess I should let it slide. Their ASU sweep was impressive, if at home. But their other three conference series were all against sub-.500 teams, and featured an 18-0 loss (!) to Arizona.

by parlagi on Apr 26, 2011 11:23 AM EDT reply actions

To boot

Arizona completely fell out of the rankings this week…

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by KingJamesIV on Apr 26, 2011 11:42 AM EDT up reply actions

yeah why do people think OSU is good?

I don’t understand how they could be #3 in the BA poll. They haven’t really beaten anyone awesome and they lose pretty badly to anyone halfway decent…not all the time. But a lot!

I live in the OC.
The one in OH.

by MattBen on Apr 26, 2011 2:49 PM EDT up reply actions

BA's a major outlier there

How do they have a team at 3 when the others have them at 9? Or 12? Nobody else in the top 15 has a delta remotely that large between their top and bottom scores…

"Well, if that ain't a show, I'll kiss your ass." - Gov. Jim Folsom Sr. (D-AL), 1948-52

by VandyImport on Apr 26, 2011 7:31 PM EDT up reply actions

Here's what BA had to say about it

Their explanation for last week’s rise: “The Beavers are incredibly impressive, having gone 8-1 in the last three weekends against Arizona, Arizona State and Stanford, with two of those series coming on the road, and the last two series coming without Andrew Susac, the team’s best offensive player.”

And this week, for not dropping them: “We ended up moving Vandy down a few spots when it lost a series last weekend (albeit a very competitive series against a very good team on the road). But we generally try not to move teams down when they win weekend series, and OSU did win its series this weekend.”

If I was Joe Morgan, I’d be remarkably impressed by the reasoning’s consistency.

by parlagi on Apr 27, 2011 11:18 AM EDT up reply actions

"(albeit a very competitive series against a very good team on the road)"

As in, barely lost the series (we were winning Game 3 until an epic bullpen collapse) on the road to a top 3 team that is better than any of the teams Oregon State has faced, last three weeks or otherwise.

Color me unimpressed.

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by KingJamesIV on Apr 27, 2011 11:23 AM EDT up reply actions