Baseball Ameerica stock report

huskrplaya · April 24, 2013

http://www.baseballamerica.com/college/college-stock-report-week-10/

At-large Bids

There are 30 automatic bids awarded to conference champions, and these 17 are safe bets to be one-bid leagues:

America East, Atlantic 10, Horizon, Ivy, Metro-Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Eastern, Missouri Valley, Mountain West, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Summit, Southwestern, Western Athletic.

We are moving the SoCon and the Southland into the one-bid category, because the SoCon’s top RPI team is now No. 69 The Citadel, and the Southland has just one team in at-large range in the RPI—No. 32 Central Arkansas, which is tied for sixth place in the league at 8-7. Because of their RPI and their strong nonconference performance, the Bears do have a chance at an at-large bid if they finish strong and fail to capture the Southland’s automatic bid. So does Austin Peay State, which ranks No. 25 in the RPI but sits in fourth place in the OVC at 11-6.

For the purpose of this exercise, we will assume that all 17 of those conferences wind up as one-bid leagues.

Below is a conference-by-conference look at which teams are on track to make the field in potential multi-bid leagues, and which teams are on the wrong side of the bubble through nine weeks. Here are the changes from last week, in a nutshell:

IN: Nebraska, Kansas State, Alabama, Pittsburgh, Louisiana-Lafayette, Ohio State

OUT: Baylor, Sam Houston State, Texas A&M, Seton Hall, Loyola Marymount, Florida Gulf Coast

BARELY HANGING ON: William & Mary

JUST MISSED: Troy, Houston, Campbell, North Florida

VectorVictor · April 24, 2013

Holy crapballs, they're calling the B1G a 4-Bid League.

There are some posters here that, for that to be in print, will warp their fragile little minds.

From the same article:

Big Ten (4 bids)
SAFELY IN: Indiana

ON THE BUBBLE (IN): Nebraska, Michigan State, Ohio State

ON THE BUBBLE (OUT): Illinois, Minnesota

Change from last week: Nebraska and Ohio State join our field, making the Big Ten a four-bid league. The Cornhuskers paid their dues against a rigorous nonconference schedule, but their 3-9 mark against the top 50 (with all but three of those games on the road) helps them in the RPI, where they shot up from No. 68 to No. 35 after going 5-0 last week against Arkansas and Purdue. Nebraska is still just 19-19 overall, so there isn’t much margin for error, but they have a strong 11-4 record in the No. 6 RPI conference, and they are hot. Just as importantly, there are no RPI-killing games left on the schedule, as 12 of their last 15 games come against teams inside the top 100, including three against No. 14 Indiana (at home, which helps Nebraska’s chances to win that series).