BB: Top Teams in West Region

[Bmo]

That's what i thought you might be having to do, but had hoped it was already available somewhere.  It's too bad the NCAA analytics platform is so limited currently. 

On the site i linked above there were some interesting Misc Reports; primarily "Toughest Schedule" and "Non Conference".  "Toughest Schedule" shows current, future, and total opponent Win Percentage, which might answer some previous questions on this site as to why a team's NCAA SOS is so low. 

Someone with some pull with the NCAA Stats folks might be able to request some additional misc reports.  Region vs Region and Conference vs Conference would be interesting.

With a more robust analytics platform, you could filter region vs region by top/middle/bottom tier win percentage, or even by matchups like Ace vs Ace, SP2 vs SP3, etc. Actually trending would be nice too. 

Maybe one day..

[Jim Dixon]

Would it be correct to assume this background work has something to do with the poll question regarding fall baseball?

Nope nothing like that.  One check on making sure D3baseball.com has all the scores on the site.  As it has been said, data is only as good as the source and we stive to be a better reporting service on this end than the NCAA.

[Ron Boerger]

Trinity puts 43 runs on the board at Austin today, winning 26-4 and 17-9.   According to the TU game summary, the 26 runs in game 1 is the most scored by the team in a single game during the SCAC era (since 1992). 

[Pirat]

That's what i thought you might be having to do, but had hoped it was already available somewhere.  It's too bad the NCAA analytics platform is so limited currently. 

On the site i linked above there were some interesting Misc Reports; primarily "Toughest Schedule" and "Non Conference".  "Toughest Schedule" shows current, future, and total opponent Win Percentage, which might answer some previous questions on this site as to why a team's NCAA SOS is so low. 

Someone with some pull with the NCAA Stats folks might be able to request some additional misc reports.  Region vs Region and Conference vs Conference would be interesting.

With a more robust analytics platform, you could filter region vs region by top/middle/bottom tier win percentage, or even by matchups like Ace vs Ace, SP2 vs SP3, etc. Actually trending would be nice too. 

Maybe one day..

Agreed the NCAA stat presentation isn't what I would like it to be. I do use the "Misc. Reports" and have found that to be helpful.  As you say "Maybe one day.."  but I kinda doubt it.

[Whatagame]

Nice at least there was a baseball game to watch!

Coldest game I attended was at Concordia TX, in February 2012. It was in the mid-low 30's with 20ish wind. All of the non local fans were going back to their hotels to get their bed comforters, and a few enterprising cowboys went and got butane warmers from their trucks. (plus some other warming refreshments, its Texas you know)

I believe this was the year Concordia had a closer who was a UT drop down who threw in the 90's and no one from Trinity wanted to face him at the end of the game since they could not feel their hands.

I believe that was Ullmann?  Saw him, he did throw hard.

[108 Stitches]

#   School (1st votes)   Rec   Pts   Prev.
1   Trinity (Texas) (16)   17-1   604   2
2   UW-Whitewater (4)   5-0   581   3
3   Rowan (2)   11-1   561   5
4   Mass-Boston   10-3   528   1
5   Concordia-Chicago (2)   12-3   498   6
6   Roanoke (1)   16-3   477   8
7   Wooster   9-3   443   7
8   Methodist   20-5   394   4
9   Christopher Newport   18-4   386   13
10   Randolph-Macon   13-3   367   10
11   Frostburg State   12-3   313   9
12   Texas Lutheran   20-4   287   19
13   Case Western Reserve   13-2   275   18
14   Cortland   11-6   262   12
15   Redlands   21-6   236   24
16   Catholic   15-3   211   14
17   TCNJ   8-2   196   20
18   Baldwin Wallace   14-4   181   15
19   Marietta   11-4   138   21
20   Maryville (Tenn.)   22-5   123   rv
21   Spalding   14-3   121   rv
22   La Roche   11-4   106   25
23   Oswego State   8-5   90   17
24   Shenandoah   10-6   86   16
25   UW-Oshkosh   10-2   82   rv
Dropped out: No. 11 Washington and Jefferson, No. 22 Webster, No. 23 North Central (Ill.).

Others receiving votes: Washington and Jefferson 58, Berry 47, Alvernia 46, Bethel (Minn.) 45, Southern Maine 44, Millsaps 44, Endicott 33, New York Univ. 29, Heidelberg 26, Centenary (La.) 22, Wabash 21, Webster 20, Saint John's (Minn.) 18, Cal Lutheran 13, Mount Union 13, Mitchell 12, St. Scholastica 11, Augustana (Ill.) 10, Johns Hopkins 10, Piedmont 9, Wartburg 9, Chapman 9, Washington College 8, Arcadia 4, Texas-Tyler 4, Pacific Lutheran 4, Concordia (Texas) 4, Franklin 4, Salisbury 3, New England College 2, Washington (Mo.) 2, Adrian 1, Aurora 1, Hood 1, Keystone 1, Wheaton (Mass.) 1.

[Mike Lehman]

#   School (1st votes)   Rec   Pts   Prev.
1   Trinity (Texas) (16)   17-1   604   2
2   UW-Whitewater (4)   5-0   581   3
3   Rowan (2)   11-1   561   5
4   Mass-Boston   10-3   528   1
5   Concordia-Chicago (2)   12-3   498   6
6   Roanoke (1)   16-3   477   8
7   Wooster   9-3   443   7
8   Methodist   20-5   394   4
9   Christopher Newport   18-4   386   13
10   Randolph-Macon   13-3   367   10
11   Frostburg State   12-3   313   9
12   Texas Lutheran   20-4   287   19
13   Case Western Reserve   13-2   275   18
14   Cortland   11-6   262   12
15   Redlands   21-6   236   24
16   Catholic   15-3   211   14
17   TCNJ   8-2   196   20
18   Baldwin Wallace   14-4   181   15
19   Marietta   11-4   138   21
20   Maryville (Tenn.)   22-5   123   rv
21   Spalding   14-3   121   rv
22   La Roche   11-4   106   25
23   Oswego State   8-5   90   17
24   Shenandoah   10-6   86   16
25   UW-Oshkosh   10-2   82   rv
Dropped out: No. 11 Washington and Jefferson, No. 22 Webster, No. 23 North Central (Ill.).

Others receiving votes: Washington and Jefferson 58, Berry 47, Alvernia 46, Bethel (Minn.) 45, Southern Maine 44, Millsaps 44, Endicott 33, New York Univ. 29, Heidelberg 26, Centenary (La.) 22, Wabash 21, Webster 20, Saint John's (Minn.) 18, Cal Lutheran 13, Mount Union 13, Mitchell 12, St. Scholastica 11, Augustana (Ill.) 10, Johns Hopkins 10, Piedmont 9, Wartburg 9, Chapman 9, Washington College 8, Arcadia 4, Texas-Tyler 4, Pacific Lutheran 4, Concordia (Texas) 4, Franklin 4, Salisbury 3, New England College 2, Washington (Mo.) 2, Adrian 1, Aurora 1, Hood 1, Keystone 1, Wheaton (Mass.) 1.

My Top Teams March 27, 2018
Trinity Texas 17-1
Texas Lutheran 20-4
Redlands 21-6
Chapman 17-7
Centenary LA 14-7
Pacific Lutheran 17-8
Concordia Texas 16-8

[Jack Parkman]

Rankings comparison for the week.

                   

                              D3               Massey                  ABCA
Trinity                        1                    1                      2
Texas Lutheran           12                  3                      9
Redlands                    15                  8                     10
Centenary                  35                  25                    NR
Cal Lu                        39                  28                   41
Chapman                   47                  13                   36
UT Tyler                     50                  14                   55
Pacific Lutheran          51                  10                   33
Concordia TX              52                 18                   30 


 

[Pirat]

My regional top 10
Redlands
Trinity
Chapman
Tyler
Concordia
Cal Lutheran
Texas Lutheran
Pacific Lutheran
Pomona
UT Dallas

SCIAC  overall 8 of 9 teams over .500.  Playing at well over.600 out of conference schedule tied for 2nd in the country while playing the 10th toughest schedule in the country.

Cal Lu/Chapman, Trinity/TLU, Tyler/Centenary all coming up

[Ralph Turner]

My regional top 10
Redlands
Trinity
Chapman
Tyler
Concordia
Cal Lutheran
Texas Lutheran
Pacific Lutheran
Pomona
UT Dallas

SCIAC  overall 8 of 9 teams over .500.  Playing at well over.600 out of conference schedule tied for 2nd in the country while playing the 10th toughest schedule in the country.

Cal Lu/Chapman, Trinity/TLU, Tyler/Centenary all coming up

Towards the end of April we can check the SOS values to see if that .600 is really worth what it says mathematically!

I really hope so, but my admitted bias is that the West Region is very strong overall and we beat ourselves up with intra-region play!

[Bmo]

Looks like the Trinity - TLU series has been relocated to Seguin due to soggy field conditions in San Antonio.  Trinity will have only 12 true scheduled home games for the season with only 5 home games left on the 2018 schedule.

[Mike Lehman]

My regional top 10
Redlands
Trinity
Chapman
Tyler
Concordia
Cal Lutheran
Texas Lutheran
Pacific Lutheran
Pomona
UT Dallas

SCIAC  overall 8 of 9 teams over .500.  Playing at well over.600 out of conference schedule tied for 2nd in the country while playing the 10th toughest schedule in the country.

Cal Lu/Chapman, Trinity/TLU, Tyler/Centenary all coming up

Towards the end of April we can check the SOS values to see if that .600 is really worth what it says mathematically!

I really hope so, but my admitted bias is that the West Region is very strong overall and we beat ourselves up with intra-region play!

ASC
Concordia Texas 16-8

NWC
Pacfic Lutheran 17-8

SCAC
Trinity Texas 17-1
Texas Lutheran 20-4

SCIAC
Redlands 22-7
Chapman 18-7

[Jack Parkman]

Very good game between TLU and Trinity with Trinity coming out on top 5-4.  Home plate ump was suspect.

Tyler absolutely smoked Centenary 11-0.  Centenary went with a kid that had only thrown 9 innings so far this year.  No clue why they would do that as they really cannot afford many more losses.  They are not in good shape for an at-large bid if they don't win the SCAC, which I do not see happening.

[Ron Boerger]

Trinity fortunate to come away with the win after being held to seven hits yesterday.  Today they likely face TLU's #1 Nathan Malinovsky, he of the microscopic 0.39 ERA (5-1, .165 OBA, 2 ER in 46 IP). 

[Ralph Turner]

Malinovsky appears to be back.  Here is his line against Trinity in the 8-4 win for TLU.
8.0IP  7H 4R 2ER 6BB 12K 0HR  37 batters 136 pitches 81 strikes