(04-12-2016 02:33 PM)CajunJuice Wrote:  

(04-12-2016 02:25 PM)CajunAmos Wrote:  

(04-12-2016 02:21 PM)CajunJuice Wrote:  

(04-12-2016 01:28 PM)LaCajunsFan Wrote:  

(04-12-2016 01:25 PM)CajunJuice Wrote:  Yep. And if that's the case, 51 is not strong enough for an at-large bid from a mid major conference due to prob also lack of SOS.

CJ: what are your thoughts on what rpi is needed for a mid major to get an at large bid?

Anything lower than 40 is a shoe-in. 40-45 is beginning of the bubble, but likely still gets you in. 45-50 you will need to have some signature wins. 50+ is unlikely to get a mid-major in unless they have 40+ wins with some clear cut high-end victories and a solid SOS.

Pretty sure someone in the 30's got left out last year.

I could see that happening as there are multiple factors that go into the committee's selection, such as SOS, record in their last 10 or 15 games, record vs. RPI Top 50. If that team you speak of had a poor showing in any of those departments, it was likely the cause of being left out.

For instance, the Cajuns finished the regular season with a 49 RPI last year, and it was considered by many that we had a very small shot of getting an at-large bid due to our lack of quality wins vs. the RPI top 50. However, we won the Sun Belt Tourny so it ended up not mattering.

Baseball breaks down teams info a number of different RPI "bonus" wins/losses to establish a quality win or poor loss figure. Baseball also assigns a .7 home and 1.3 road factor to account for the difficulty of playing away from home. By in large, RPI is supposed to take the "homerism" out of the equation making it a numeric only exercise but it still doesn't always work out that way.

Softball tends to be more RPI centric which seems to happen much more in the top 16, but there area still some RPI 40-70 that leave you scratching your head.