Beating UNO hurt our RPI

Robert1969 · Wed Feb 25, 2015 10:48 am

We fell from 53rd to 60th in RPI after beating UNO last night. Look for another slide tonight.

http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2015/rpi

However, our Power Index soared from 32 to 21 as a result of last night's win!

http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2015/npi

Robert1969 · Wed Feb 25, 2015 10:53 am

As a conference, The American is 4th in RPI

http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2015/conferencerpi

As a conference the American is ranked 5th in the Power Index

http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2015/conferencenpi

Wed Feb 25, 2015 10:53 am

Robert1969 wrote:We fell from 53rd to 60th in RPI after beating UNO last night. Look for another slide tonight.

http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2015/rpi

However, our power rating soared from 32 to 21 as a result of last night's win!

http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2015/npi

It going to hurt because of the weak teams UNO has played so far. They beat 3 SWAC teams this past weekend. You are who you play. Don't dare lose to them at home either that will kill you.

Wed Feb 25, 2015 10:58 am

Robert1969 wrote:As a conference, The American is 4th in RPI

http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2015/conferencerpi

As a conference the American is ranked 5th in the Power Index

http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2015/conferencenpi

Outside of UH, UCF and maybe us the AAC doesn't have much. We are only 31-21 at this stage. The ten games above are 6-1 UH, 7-0 UCF and our 7-1. The rest of the league has losing records I would imagine. Our opponent this weekend has a #16 RPI so a sweep there would be good.

Robert1969 · Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:06 am

tpstulane wrote:
Robert1969 wrote:As a conference, The American is 4th in RPI

http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2015/conferencerpi

As a conference the American is ranked 5th in the Power Index

http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2015/conferencenpi
Outside of UH, UCF and maybe us the AAC doesn't have much. We are only 31-21 at this stage. The ten games above are 6-1 UH, 7-0 UCF and our 7-1. The rest of the league has losing records I would imagine.

True. But the both RPI and NPI takes in consideration strength of schedule NPI takes scoring margin into consideration. For example, Warren Nolan and RPI take in consideration that 2-2 Memphis has the toughest schedule in the country, all on the road, and still has a positive scoring margin.

Robert1969 · Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:17 am

Here's what else hurt our RPI yesterday:

Pepperdine lost to Santa Barbabra last night. So, they are now 4-4.

rollwave11 · Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:40 am

Pepperdine and Southeastern are going to win plenty of games this year. We won 3 games against those teams on the road. San Francisco is 0-8 after playing us and Texas Tech. They are going to win some games also. The American will have high RPI teams in Houston (6 games), UCF (3 games), USF (3 games), ECU (3 games).

Our RPI will take care of itself as long as we continue to win.

MicMan · Wed Feb 25, 2015 12:39 pm

There's something deeply wrong with college sports when you whip your traditional crosstown rival and all anyone can think of is how it affects the power rating.

JDTulane · Wed Feb 25, 2015 12:57 pm

Way too early to look at or care about RPI

IM42lane · Wed Feb 25, 2015 1:35 pm

Just WIN --- everything will work out in the end, especially if TU wins 40 games this season for the first time in a LLLLOOOONNNNGGGG while!!!!

Jonathan · Wed Feb 25, 2015 5:05 pm

Please drop UNO from our schedule or at minimum play once a year to get our RPI up to get back to the NCAA tournament.Coach Pierce looks at RPI before he schedules any team on the Tulane schedule.

Fri Feb 27, 2015 11:00 pm

UCF beats it's second SEC tonight.
AAC second only to the SEC now.
http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2015/conferencerpi

Fri Feb 27, 2015 11:05 pm

Creighton is still higher than us at 44
http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2015/rpi

Robert1969 · Fri Feb 27, 2015 11:13 pm

tpstulane wrote:Creighton is still higher than us at 44
http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2015/rpi

Well, just keep beating them, and that will change.

winwave · Fri Feb 27, 2015 11:23 pm

UCONN beat ranked Kennesaw St. today.

Jonathan · Sat Feb 28, 2015 2:17 am

Cancel UNO next year from our schedule for two games. Bring in a home and home series with either Miami, Florida, Florida State or Georgia Tech next year to get us after 20 years back to the NCAA Tournament.to build up our RPI!

Sat Feb 28, 2015 7:57 am

UCF beats Ole Miss on this walk off hit.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=794467837257891

RobertM320 · Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:53 am

Jonathan wrote:Cancel UNO next year from our schedule for two games. Bring in a home and home series with either Miami, Florida, Florida State or Georgia Tech next year to get us after 20 years back to the NCAA Tournament.to build up our RPI!

Jonathan, UNO's RPI is HIGHER than Pepperdine's, and only 9 behind San Francisco. Maybe we should stop playing those California teams, they're hurting our RPI.

Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:21 pm

tpstulane wrote:UCF beats it's second SEC tonight.
AAC second only to the SEC now.
http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2015/conferencerpi

Weekend over AAC drops 5 places to 7th now.

RobertM320 · Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:26 pm

For anyone that complains about losing one game to Creighton, who's a top 50 program, how would you like to be #6 Houston dropping a home series to Ivy League Columbia? Take each game one at a time, and we'll be fine.

And with most if not all of the weekend scores in , Tulane has moved up to #15 in RPI. I would hope 10-2 gets us into the Top 30.

Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:27 pm

RobertM320 wrote:For anyone that complains about losing one game to Creighton, who's a top 50 program, how would you like to be #6 Houston dropping a home series to Ivy League Columbia? Take each game one at a time, and we'll be fine.

That's what knocked our conf RPI down.

RobertM320 · Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:28 pm

tpstulane wrote:
RobertM320 wrote:For anyone that complains about losing one game to Creighton, who's a top 50 program, how would you like to be #6 Houston dropping a home series to Ivy League Columbia? Take each game one at a time, and we'll be fine.
That's what knocked our conf RPI down.

Damn Cougars! And of course, Cincy opening the season 1-9 isn't helping any.

DfromCT · Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:37 pm

Beating UNO may have hurt our RPI, but not nearly as much as losing to them would have crushed our RPI.

winwave · Sun Mar 01, 2015 10:14 pm

RobertM320 wrote:For anyone that complains about losing one game to Creighton, who's a top 50 program, how would you like to be #6 Houston dropping a home series to Ivy League Columbia? Take each game one at a time, and we'll be fine.

And with most if not all of the weekend scores in , Tulane has moved up to #15 in RPI. I would hope 10-2 gets us into the Top 30.

Houston split the 4 game series. Also UCONN won their series against ranked Kennesaw St..

Jonathan · Mon Mar 02, 2015 12:24 am

What is our current Warren Nolan RPI? If I am reading it correctly we are 17th in the nation? We need votes tomorrow to get into the top 25 and win all four games this week.