BB: NESCAC: New England Small College Athletic Conference

[Old Spartan]

On a topic unrelated to baseball, but specific to this board, how do the rankings (such as jv/second stringer) and karma get set?  Is that something the moderator does of its own accord?

Just curious.

I expect to freeze outside this weekend watching baseball, think warm thoughts everybody!

OS

[soxfan42585]

I'm not sure about karma- but I think your ranking is directly related to the number of posts.

[Paul Heering]

yes, rankings is just how many posts you have made.

karma is controlled by other posters, once you post a certain number of times ( i think 150 or 200) you then have the ability to give people karma points (or take them away)

watch yours, if you post something that is knowledgable and insightful someone may give you karma points and if you say something dumb and offensive someone may take them away.

at first i thought the karma points thing was lame but i love it now, it really helps.  if i read somebody's post and think "holy crap what is this person talking about, are they nuts" then i see they have -22 karma, it all makes sense and i know to take the points with a grain of salt.

[JustAFan]

I caught some of the Tufts-Williams doubleheader on Jumbocast Saturday and noticed that senior Kyle Backstrom isn't in the line-up after perhpas being Tufts' best hitter during its spring trip. Is he hurt, and if so when is he expected to return? This might be Casey's best coaching job in some time given all of his injuries (Simon, Narva, Backstrom) and losses (Colebrook, McDonough).  He's got freshmen starting at catcher, 3B and DH and 3 frosh coming out of the bullpen as well. Good thing he had a good recruiting year last year or else this could have turned into a very difficult season.

[Bostonian]

Kyle broke his hand in Virginia. He is done for the year.
Tufts is still managing to play very well even without Kyle, Simon, Narva, and the others. They are not a dominating team, but they do all of the little things the right way. This weekend will be be big for the Jumbos. If they can take the Bowdoin series, they could be rolling.

[Bostonian]

Big weekend in the NESCAC...should go a long way to figuring out the seeding in the NESCAC tourney.
Bowdoin-Tufts in the East
Williams-Amherst in the West

[formerbant10]

Trinity's Tim Kiely threw a perfect game in the 1st of the doubleheader today.  First one in the history of Trinity's program.

[Bostonian]

Dominating...great to see Kiely back healthy again.

Tufts somehow managed to take the series from Trinity and pretty much ended their NESCAC playoff hopes. I thought Trinity was the most talented team in the league, so not making the playoffs must be killing them. John Casey should be the NESCAC coach of the year by a landslide. He loses his top starter, his top reliever, and his cleanup hitter to injuries. He loses his top recruit from last year who started the whole year and his top recruit from this year who was penciled in as the midweek starter, yet he somehow gets this team ready to play every day and they are on the verge of winning the NESCAC East.

Looks like it'll be Tufts and Bowdoin in the East and Amherst and Williams in the West. I wonder if Trinity will get an NCAA at large bid even if they miss the NESCAC playoffs.

[Col. Partridge]

Why are you penciling Bowdoin getting in the playoffs over Trinity?   I don't know the ins and outs of the NESCAC baseball playoffs, but there are two more weeks in the regular season and nescac.com shows Trinity in 2nd place in NESCAC East, and Bowdoin in 3rd place.:

http://www.nescac.com/2006-07/sports/baseball/standings.htm

[Bostonian]

Bowdoin has 4 games left...3 against Bates and 1 against Colby. They need to win 3 of these 4 in order to beat out Trinity for 2nd place. Now, I am not saying this is a sure thing, but I would be shocked if Bowdoin slips up even once against Bowdoin or Colby.

[eclinchy]

Barring a miracle, it looks like Tufts finishes 10-2, Bowdoin 9-3, and Trinity 8-4.  Those three teams have looked WAY better than Bates and Colby so far... I'd be shocked if Tufts or Bowdoin slipped up.  Good year for Trinity, but if you lose two out of three in both of the year's two biggest series, it's hard to recover from that.

[ECSUalum]

ECSU over Trinity 14-3 today

[Bostonian]

It is becoming apparent that this is a down year in the NESCAC. Amherst lost to Brandeis today. and Bowdoin got beat by St. Joe's yesterday. Trinity started off hot, but now that they are playing tougher teams, they don't look as strong....this is one of the problems that can arise when you play such a soft early schedule.

[speedy]

The NESCAC play-offs are basically set. It's Tufts and Bowdoin from the east (in that order) and Williams and Amherst from the west. The play-offs are scheduled to begin on May 11 at either Williams or Amherst.

[Bostonian]

Williams will host. They clinched first place today.
Williams-Bowdoin
Tufts-Amherst