2019 NCAA Baseball Tournament - Nat'l Seed Watch

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Good guys vs bad guys for top eight seed as of today.

RPI
Bad guys 5
good guys 7

SOS
Good guys 7
Bad guys 12

Q1 W/L

Good guys 17-10
Bad guys 18-11

Q1 plus Q2W/L
Good guys 26-14
Bad guys 23-12.

As of today which of these teams would get a top 8 seed IYO. AND the good guys took 2 of 3 from the bad guys. Any chance that both teams end up with a top 8 seed?
 
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tkh74 said:
Good guys vs bad guys for top eight seed as of today.

RPI
Bad guys 5
good guys 7

SOS
Good guys 7
Bad guys 12

Q1 W/L

Good guys 17-10
Bad guys 18-11

Q1 plus Q2W/L
Good guys 26-14
Bad guys 23-12.

As of today which of these teams would get a top 8 seed IYO. AND the good guys took 2 of 3 from the bad guys. Any chance that both teams end up with a top 8 seed?
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I think both will end up as top seeds.
 

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tkh74 said:
Good guys vs bad guys for top eight seed as of today.

RPI
Bad guys 5
good guys 7

SOS
Good guys 7
Bad guys 12

Q1 W/L

Good guys 17-10
Bad guys 18-11

Q1 plus Q2W/L
Good guys 26-14
Bad guys 23-12.

As of today which of these teams would get a top 8 seed IYO. AND the good guys took 2 of 3 from the bad guys. Any chance that both teams end up with a top 8 seed?
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If you had to pick 1 and only one - look how many Q3/4 games they’ve played. And nearly all at home. Their non-conference strength of schedule is horrible and they’re barely a 0.500 team on the road.
 

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FredJacket said:
In this week's projections, BA has Tech slotted as a 10-seed in regional with

Illinois
So Miss
Elon

7-seed Louisville would be Tech's opponent (in Louisville) should both win their respective regionals.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/projected-field-of-64-51519/
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Well we nearly swept them on the road, but not for a bottom of the 9th comeback.

My gut tells me even if we go 4-0 this week, we might need to win the ACC Tournament to get a Super Regional. I'm fine with that. I mean, there can only be 8 of those, and a lot of these teams in the top 15 are so close, several of them will win their conference tournaments, and that may be what ultimately separates them.

4 of the top 8 are in the SEC. The more of those 4 that lose games this week and/or early in their conference tournament, the better.
 

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I am rooting hard for UNC to sweep N C State so that will help our RPI (and there is no chance they catch us in the standings).
 
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FredJacket said:
You're going to need to explain the logic here. ...unless you mean by rooting for UNC, your "superpower" will force UNC to lose.
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Unless we lose the series to Pitt, UNC can’t catch us. And if that happens we’re losing the National Seed anyway. So yeah, UNC wins help us.
 
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Unless we lose the series to Pitt, UNC can’t catch us. And if that happens we’re losing the National Seed anyway. So yeah, UNC wins help us.
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If we go 2-1, & (Miami & UNC) sweep... Miami wins the Coastal. We do finish 2nd, ahead of UNC, though... you're right about that.

Edit: I see what you're saying. I still want to finish ahead of them... ideally it's as you say with UNC winning.
 
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FredJacket said:
If we go 2-1, & (Miami & UNC) sweep... Miami wins the Coastal. We do finish 2nd, ahead of UNC, though... you're right about that.

Edit: I see what you're saying. I still want to finish ahead of them... ideally it's as you say with UNC winning.
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It's all on us. If we can't sweep Pitt, we don't deserve to win the Coastal or a national seed. I hope UNC and Miami both sweep to help our rpi and we take care of business this weekend and we should get a top 8 seed.
 
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OlaJacket said:
It's all on us. If we can't sweep Pitt, we don't deserve to win the Coastal or a national seed. I hope UNC and Miami both sweep to help our rpi and we take care of business this weekend and we should get a top 8 seed.
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Ok. We're in perfect agreement on "should win" over Pitt... where you lose me is IF we do stumble, I still want to win the division. You don't?
 
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FredJacket said:
Ok. We're in perfect agreement on "should win" over Pitt... where you lose me is IF we do stumble, I still want to win the division. You don't?
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Of course I do. I have followed the baseball program for nearly 30 years. I listen to or watch every game, every season. Is all I am saying is I want to EARN a division title and not back into one. Even though we have been great at winning ACC series we still haven't swept a team. I will still take it even if we back into it but we should sweep Pitt. Now if we were playing up there I wouldn't expect a sweep but at home we should. But if Dook beating Miami helps our rpi, like ramblinwreckguru stated then I want Dook to win. I thought Miami winning would help us more since we lost that series but I haven't crunched the numbers.
 
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OlaJacket said:
Of course I do. I have followed the baseball program for nearly 30 years. I listen to or watch every game, every season. Is all I am saying is I want to EARN a division title and not back into one. Even though we have been great at winning ACC series we still haven't swept a team. I will still take it even if we back into it but we should sweep Pitt. Now if we were playing up there I wouldn't expect a sweep but at home we should. But if Dook beating Miami helps our rpi, like ramblinwreckguru stated then I want Dook to win. I thought Miami winning would help us more since we lost that series but I haven't crunched the numbers.
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Agree. Pitt has no business hanging with Tech this weekend... everything (timing & circumstances) should align for a sweep.
 

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FredJacket said:
Agree. Pitt has no business hanging with Tech this weekend... everything (timing & circumstances) should align for a sweep.
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Yup, based on RPIs, it should be close to Western Carolina - games in the range of 10-3. I mean, that's the way it should be. Pitt gives up 7 or more runs half the time, and they've given up 10 runs a quarter of their games. And that's to a strength of schedule ranked #99 and a non-conference strength schedule ranked #276. Against us, #8 in RPI, and on the road, it should be a rough experience for them. They've only won 3 total games all year on the road (let that sink in). Their ACC road series were @NC State (swept), @Virginia (swept), @Duke (swept), @Florida State (1-2). That's 1-11 in ACC play on the road.
 

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Yup, based on RPIs, it should be close to Western Carolina - games in the range of 10-3. I mean, that's the way it should be. Pitt gives up 7 or more runs half the time, and they've given up 10 runs a quarter of their games. And that's to a strength of schedule ranked #99 and a non-conference strength schedule ranked #276. Against us, #8 in RPI, and on the road, it should be a rough experience for them. They've only won 3 total games all year on the road (let that sink in). Their ACC road series were @NC State (swept), @Virginia (swept), @Duke (swept), @Florida State (1-2). That's 1-11 in ACC play on the road.
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On top of all that, isn't Pitt already eliminated from all post-season play? If correct, that means these are their last 3 games of the season. Let's hope they are more interested in basking in the sun than playing hard.
 

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MWBATL said:
On top of all that, isn't Pitt already eliminated from all post-season play? If correct, that means these are their last 3 games of the season. Let's hope they are more interested in basking in the sun than playing hard.
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If I were their coach, I'd be trying out some of the bench players to give them a chance and some time on the field to see what they've got.
 
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