BB: Regionals (West) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

[forheavendial4999]

Answered my own question: No other region had more than 3. The West was 5 out of 6 for 84% the next best was the midwest with 3 out of 6 - 50%.

New England - 3 out of 8
New York  -     1 out of 8
Mid Atlantic  -   3 out of 8
Mideast    -      3 out of 7
Central    -       1 out of 6
South     -        2 out of 6
Midwest  -       3 out of 6
West      -        5 out of 6

Means nothing. Pomona-Pitzer was ranked most of the year even though they were middling in their own league. George Fox was ranked way too long. UT-Tyler was in the poll and ended up barely making the field. All it means is some teams got a bunch of wins while snow was still on the ground up north. They get ranked high early and then some people obviously don't do a good enough job of making adjustments to the poll once there have been a few.

Until the first poll is delayed until late March, the d3baseball.com poll will be skewed toward the south and west. Fact.

[Ralph Turner]

Answered my own question: No other region had more than 3. The West was 5 out of 6 for 84% the next best was the midwest with 3 out of 6 - 50%.

New England - 3 out of 8
New York  -     1 out of 8
Mid Atlantic  -   3 out of 8
Mideast    -      3 out of 7
Central    -       1 out of 6
South     -        2 out of 6
Midwest  -       3 out of 6
West      -        5 out of 6

Part of the "skew" on the poll is that we have no "weak" conferences, whose AQ gets a chance in the tourney, in our part of the country,.

[Ralph Turner]

Answered my own question: No other region had more than 3. The West was 5 out of 6 for 84% the next best was the midwest with 3 out of 6 - 50%.

New England - 3 out of 8
New York  -     1 out of 8
Mid Atlantic  -   3 out of 8
Mideast    -      3 out of 7
Central    -       1 out of 6
South     -        2 out of 6
Midwest  -       3 out of 6
West      -        5 out of 6

Means nothing. Pomona-Pitzer was ranked most of the year even though they were middling in their own league. George Fox was ranked way too long. UT-Tyler was in the poll and ended up barely making the field. All it means is some teams got a bunch of wins while snow was still on the ground up north. They get ranked high early and then some people obviously don't do a good enough job of making adjustments to the poll once there have been a few.

Until the first poll is delayed until late March, the d3baseball.com poll will be skewed toward the south and west. Fact.

Valid comments, and it is what each pollster needs to do with his/her ballot.

I believe that it takes 60% of the season, regardless of the sport, to begin to figure out where a team stands.

The staggered starts in baseball make it even harder.

[BigPoppa]

Answered my own question: No other region had more than 3. The West was 5 out of 6 for 84% the next best was the midwest with 3 out of 6 - 50%.

New England - 3 out of 8
New York  -     1 out of 8
Mid Atlantic  -   3 out of 8
Mideast    -      3 out of 7
Central    -       1 out of 6
South     -        2 out of 6
Midwest  -       3 out of 6
West      -        5 out of 6

Means nothing. Pomona-Pitzer was ranked most of the year even though they were middling in their own league. George Fox was ranked way too long. UT-Tyler was in the poll and ended up barely making the field. All it means is some teams got a bunch of wins while snow was still on the ground up north. They get ranked high early and then some people obviously don't do a good enough job of making adjustments to the poll once there have been a few.

Until the first poll is delayed until late March, the d3baseball.com poll will be skewed toward the south and west. Fact.

Why are you so effing angry all the time?

[Jack Parkman]

[[/quote]
Why are you so effing angry all the time?
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HA!!  I was wondering the same thing.  Good lord buddy, relax!

[CrashDavisD3]

Answered my own question: No other region had more than 3. The West was 5 out of 6 for 84% the next best was the midwest with 3 out of 6 - 50%.

New England - 3 out of 8
New York  -     1 out of 8
Mid Atlantic  -   3 out of 8
Mideast    -      3 out of 7
Central    -       1 out of 6
South     -        2 out of 6
Midwest  -       3 out of 6
West      -        5 out of 6

Means nothing. Pomona-Pitzer was ranked most of the year even though they were middling in their own league. George Fox was ranked way too long. UT-Tyler was in the poll and ended up barely making the field. All it means is some teams got a bunch of wins while snow was still on the ground up north. They get ranked high early and then some people obviously don't do a good enough job of making adjustments to the poll once there have been a few.

Until the first poll is delayed until late March, the d3baseball.com poll will be skewed toward the south and west. Fact.

Why are you so effing angry all the time?

I believe it is because in the West Region we dont have snow in February and March and we can play baseball outside.  I would be angry too...

[Jack Parkman]

Here is my very uneducated guess on how the West Regional will play out.

Game 1- Linfield over CTX
Game 2- Chapman over Tyler
Game 3- Redlands over Trinity (very tough game to choose)
Game 4- Tyler over CTX
Game 5- Linfield over Trinity
Game 6- Chapman over Redlands
Game 7- Linfield over Chapman
Game 8- Tyler over Redlands
Game 9- Chapman over Tyler
Game 10- Chapman over Linfield
Game 11- Linfield over Chapman

Linfield is the champ.

I think Game 3 could go either way but I just think the time-off for Trinity will hurt them and Johnson for Redlands has been lights out this year.  Who knows.

[CrashDavisD3]

Here is my very uneducated guess on how the West Regional will play out.

Game 1- Linfield over CTX
Game 2- Chapman over Tyler
Game 3- Redlands over Trinity (very tough game to choose)
Game 4- Tyler over CTX
Game 5- Linfield over Trinity
Game 6- Chapman over Redlands
Game 7- Linfield over Chapman
Game 8- Tyler over Redlands
Game 9- Chapman over Tyler
Game 10- Chapman over Linfield
Game 11- Linfield over Chapman

Linfield is the champ.

I think Game 3 could go either way but I just think the time-off for Trinity will hurt them and Johnson for Redlands has been lights out this year.  Who knows.

Redlands Johnson's loss to Chapman he gave up ZERO earned runs. His defense had 3 errors that allowed 2 runs with Redlands losing 2-0.  I see Chapman's Rauh and Redland's Johnson throwing 2 games and would not be suprised to see them in relief if needed also.

[forheavendial4999]

Answered my own question: No other region had more than 3. The West was 5 out of 6 for 84% the next best was the midwest with 3 out of 6 - 50%.

New England - 3 out of 8
New York  -     1 out of 8
Mid Atlantic  -   3 out of 8
Mideast    -      3 out of 7
Central    -       1 out of 6
South     -        2 out of 6
Midwest  -       3 out of 6
West      -        5 out of 6

Means nothing. Pomona-Pitzer was ranked most of the year even though they were middling in their own league. George Fox was ranked way too long. UT-Tyler was in the poll and ended up barely making the field. All it means is some teams got a bunch of wins while snow was still on the ground up north. They get ranked high early and then some people obviously don't do a good enough job of making adjustments to the poll once there have been a few.

Until the first poll is delayed until late March, the d3baseball.com poll will be skewed toward the south and west. Fact.

Why are you so effing angry all the time?

Tired of all the "look at the polls, look at the regionals, we should have more bids" silliness from some of the Western contingent. TexasBB being chief among them. The polls are not anywhere near ground truth. Pomona-Pitzer is STILL like 30th in votes received.

[Ron Boerger]

Nice summary of the six teams playing tomorrow courtesy of Linfield sports information:

http://www.linfield.edu/sports/release.php?id=4031

[ChapFan]

Here is a link to a PDF that has a great break down of each team,stats and nationally ranked stats.
http://chapmanathletics.com/sports/bsb/2010-11/releases/BSB.Regional.Notes_2011.pdf

[CrashDavisD3]

Todays Games West Regional

http://www.d3baseball.com/playoffs/2011/west-schedule  

Concordia Texas vs Linfield
Texas-Tyler vs Chapman
Trinity-Texas vs Redlands

Times are listed in Eastern Timezone. 4 of the 6 teams played in the 2010 regional.

Hard to believe in these days of technology that all games do not have video feeds.  

[CrashDavisD3]

Todays Games West Regional

http://www.d3baseball.com/playoffs/2011/west-schedule 

Concordia Texas vs Linfield
Texas-Tyler vs Chapman
Trinity-Texas vs Redlands

Times are listed in Eastern Timezone. 4 of the 6 teams played in the 2010 regional.

Hard to believe in these days of technology that all games do not have video feeds. 

PREDICTIONS TODAY
Linfield over CTX
Chapman over UTT
Redlands over TT

[ILVBB]

I'll bit; I am a contrarian:

Linfield over Concordia
UTT over Chapman (Raugh can't win them all)
Trinity over Redlands

[CrashDavisD3]

I'll bit; I am a contrarian:

Linfield over Concordia
UTT over Chapman (Raugh can't win them all)
Trinity over Redlands

Looks like your see Chapmans Rauh(10-0 1.88 124K) and Redlands Johnson(12-2 2.48 98K) both getting beat on same day.....