BB: Top Teams in West Region

[Ron Boerger]

Teams with .500 or lower overall records should not be getting votes......Does anyone do they homerwork?

Would that mean the 0-0 teams couldn't be ranked, Crash ?

But, yes, I'm pretty surprised anyone could be voting for CTX (among others) right now.

[Jack Parkman]

Teams in West in the polls
http://www.d3baseball.com/top25/2013/2013week-2

6 Trinity - TX
15 Linfield
22 Whitworth
24 Texas-Tyler

Others receiving votes
Pomona-Pitzer
Concordia Texas
George Fox
Hardin Simmons
Texas Dallas

No love for Cal Lutheran. They have beat Pomona twice,  Whitworth win and a tie, George Fox twice. I guess they ran out of votes for SCIAC teams. 5 teams from Texas got votes.... ....Could there be 4 teams in the West Regional from Texas.  ... I guess we will check back in May,,,,

Teams with .500 or lower overall records should not be getting votes......Does anyone do they homerwork?

Yes, I think this pole is very telling that nobody does their homework at all.  Examples

Concordia is still getting votes with a 7-10 record.
CLU went from 23 votes last week to 0 this week, even after taking 2/3 from Chapman.  Anyone who thinks Chapman is bad needs to look at their strength of schedule.
La Verne went from 5 votes last week to 0 this week.  I realize they played Cal Tech but why would that drop their votes?
Hardin Simmons went from 0 votes last week to 3 this week.  Nothing to me really seems to validate this.
UT-Dallas went from 0 votes this week to 2.  They did sweep Concordia but Concordia is 7-10!!

I understand that most of D-III is in the East/South/NE but I just dont get how some teams can still get votes and others can fluxuate so much??  Oh well, these are simple rankings but there is plenty of season left and these rankings are not going to make or break a team, they will determine their own outcome.

[TexasBB]

Whitworth just dropped 2 games  to UTT this past weekend.  One of the games was a blowout. Yet they are still ranked ahead of them.

Go figure?

TexasBB

[Ralph Turner]

Teams in West in the polls
http://www.d3baseball.com/top25/2013/2013week-2

6 Trinity - TX
15 Linfield
22 Whitworth
24 Texas-Tyler

Others receiving votes
Pomona-Pitzer
Concordia Texas
George Fox
Hardin Simmons
Texas Dallas

No love for Cal Lutheran. They have beat Pomona twice,  Whitworth win and a tie, George Fox twice. I guess they ran out of votes for SCIAC teams. 5 teams from Texas got votes.... ....Could there be 4 teams in the West Regional from Texas.  ... I guess we will check back in May,,,,

Teams with .500 or lower overall records should not be getting votes......Does anyone do they homerwork?

Yes, I think this pole is very telling that nobody does their homework at all.  Examples

Concordia is still getting votes with a 7-10 record.
CLU went from 23 votes last week to 0 this week, even after taking 2/3 from Chapman.  Anyone who thinks Chapman is bad needs to look at their strength of schedule.
La Verne went from 5 votes last week to 0 this week.  I realize they played Cal Tech but why would that drop their votes?
Hardin Simmons went from 0 votes last week to 3 this week.  Nothing to me really seems to validate this.
UT-Dallas went from 0 votes this week to 2.  They did sweep Concordia but Concordia is 7-10!!

I understand that most of D-III is in the East/South/NE but I just dont get how some teams can still get votes and others can fluxuate so much??  Oh well, these are simple rankings but there is plenty of season left and these rankings are not going to make or break a team, they will determine their own outcome.

Actually very little of D-III is in the South.  Just 4 conferences in the South:  Capital AC which extends up to York PA, ODAC, USA South and the new SAA.

As for the ASC, I believe that the ASC champion is almost always worthy of Top25 consideration.  It is a "real knock-down drag out" conference!

We just have not figured out who that should be.

[108 Stitches]

Agree - don't get why Whitworth is still ranked. P-P, CLU both should get some love. Also GFox, PLU in the NWC. TLU in Texas....

Does not make a lot of sense to me.

[Ralph Turner]

Teams in West in the polls
http://www.d3baseball.com/top25/2013/2013week-2

6 Trinity - TX
15 Linfield
22 Whitworth
24 Texas-Tyler

Others receiving votes
Pomona-Pitzer  Yes 46 votes. Getting lots of love from several places.

Concordia Texas  Yes 14 votes, which could be two #21's and a #22 or even one single wild and crazy person giving them a #12!

George Fox  Yes 4 votes.  Probably some voter giving them a #22 vote off his "watchlist".

Hardin Simmons  Yes  3 votes.  Probably some voter giving them a #23 vote off his "watchlist".

Texas Dallas  Yes 2 votes.  Probably some voter giving them a #24 vote off his "watchlist".

No love for Cal Lutheran. They have beat Pomona twice,  Whitworth win and a tie, George Fox twice. I guess they ran out of votes for SCIAC teams. 5 teams from Texas got votes.... ....Could there be 4 teams in the West Regional from Texas.  ... I guess we will check back in May,,,,

Teams with .500 or lower overall records should not be getting votes......Does anyone do they homerwork?

[CrashDavisD3]

Pomona-Pitzer loses 2 of 3 from Cal Lu but stays up in the ranking???

CTX losing record should go to ZERO votes at this time. Whitworth also does not deserve any votes  at this time either.

As weeks pass things seem to get better...but some basic homework should make this better.

If losing records gets votes then the young Chapman Panthers should get a vote since they have played the toughest schedule in the West to date and have a few wins against these teams.

[Jack Parkman]

Who votes on these polls?  I honestly never really thought of it but was just wondering.

[OshDude]

Who votes on these polls?  I honestly never really thought of it but was just wondering.

I do. My entire ballot is open to ridicule each Wednesday in the Around the Nation column.

[Jack Parkman]

Who votes on these polls?  I honestly never really thought of it but was just wondering.

I do. My entire ballot is open to ridicule each Wednesday in the Around the Nation column.

Thanks.  Are you the only one?  I'm not bashing it, just don't really see the logic in some of it but thats the best thing about America, we can all have our own opinions.

[OshDude]

Who votes on these polls?  I honestly never really thought of it but was just wondering.

I do. My entire ballot is open to ridicule each Wednesday in the Around the Nation column.

Thanks.  Are you the only one?  I'm not bashing it, just don't really see the logic in some of it but thats the best thing about America, we can all have our own opinions.

I'm just one of 25.
I critique my ballots. Everyone else can too. They're fair game.
The answer to your original question is stated at the bottom of the poll each week.

[Jack Parkman]

Who votes on these polls?  I honestly never really thought of it but was just wondering.

I do. My entire ballot is open to ridicule each Wednesday in the Around the Nation column.

Thanks.  Are you the only one?  I'm not bashing it, just don't really see the logic in some of it but thats the best thing about America, we can all have our own opinions.

I'm just one of 25.
I critique my ballots. Everyone else can too. They're fair game.
The answer to your original question is stated at the bottom of the poll each week.

I checked that and didn't realize who it was.  Again, not bashing it, I really appreciate all the effort you guys put into the site.  I couldn't even imagine trying to put these rankings together.

[Ralph Turner]

The problem in baseball is that the various regions don't start at the same time.

By the end of this week, the West and South Region teams will have played 15 and the New Engalnd, New York, Central, Great Lakes and East Regions are just getting started.  The Midwest teams in Minnesota have been playing in the Metrodome.  It is really weird.

Yes, fans may post about how many teams that are getting votes now that will be in the poll come May.  In May you may not have more than 5-7 South and West Region teams left in the ballot, but you were trying to fill 25 ballot slots in late February.

[CrashDavisD3]

The problem in baseball is that the various regions don't start at the same time.
AGREED 

By the end of this week, the West and South Region teams will have played 15 and the New Engalnd, New York, Central, Great Lakes and East Regions are just getting started.  The Midwest teams in Minnesota have been playing in the Metrodome.  It is really weird.
Metrodome will be gone next year and it will get weirder

Yes, fans may post about how many teams that are getting votes now that will be in the poll come May.  In May you may not have more than 5-7 South and West Region teams left in the ballot, but you were trying to fill 25 ballot slots in late February.
SO TRUE

But once again teams with .500 or less records that have played several games(like the West) should not be receiving votes. Teams that have been beaten by other teams also should not be lower than those teams given similar loss records. Just my opinion which I always have.

My TOP TEAMS in the West
1) Linfield 10-1
2) Trinity-TX 12-2
3) Texas-Tyler 11-3
4) LeTourneau 9-2
5) Centenary 10-3
6) Cal Lutheran 7-4-1
7) Pomona-Pitzer 10-3
8) George Fox 10-4
9) Occidental 10-2
10) Texas-Lutheran 10-5

[108 Stitches]

I like Crashes list but would swap out PLU for Oxy. They need to beat a team or two of substance to make me a believer.

...signed Mickey Dolenz