re: Baseball Power Rankings Guest Vote Thread: Week 6

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Sorry kilo, you've been DQ'd

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I tried, I tried.

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Arkansas has 8 wins against top 25 RPI teams
Alabama has 6 wins against top 25 RPI teams

Arkansas has 10 wins against RPI top 50 teams
Alabama has 8 wins against RPI top 50 teams

Arkansas won the series against Alabama.

Alabama has played the 6th place team from the East, 7th place team in West, 6th place team in West, 3rd place team in East and 3rd place team in West.

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RPI
Alabama - 16
Arkansas - 50

Conference Record
Alabama - 12-6
Arkansas - 9-9

Record vs. Top 50 RPI
Alabama - 9-6
Arkansas - 10-10

Record vs. 100+ RPI
Alabama - 12-2
Arkansas - 14-3

Last 10
Alabama - 7-3
Arkansas - 6-4

Series W-L
Alabama - 8-2
Arkansas - 5-4

1. Fla
2. LSU
3. South Carolina
4. Ole Miss
5. Bama
6. Miss State
7. Vandy
8. Kentucky
9. Georgia
10. Arkansas
11. Texas A&M
12. Auburn
13. Tenn
14. Missouri

You were putting out numbers (facts), so I did too. My biggest issue with Ark is the 4 series losses regardless of who they're against: LSU, State, Florida, and South Alabama. Nothing to be ashamed of, but it's still a high amount. Bama has two: Ark and ULL and both of them were earlier in the season. We're talking "Power Rankings" here so trend is just as important. I'm not arguing that they will fall off once the schedule gets tougher, but we can't presume anything about those games. For all we know Ark could go 4-8 to finish just as easily as Bama could go 8-4.

So, it doesn't matter who a team plays? Okay.....ignore the fact that Arkansas has played the 2nd most top 50 teams in the league, which is 5 more than Alabama.

Sure Arkansas has lost series to LSU, Florida, and State. Of those 6 losses, 4 were by one run and one of those was a walk off in game two of a series.

There is a three game difference in Alabama and Arkansas. That slim of a margin is the difference in scheduling,,,,While Alabama has played Auburn, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Kentucky, and Ole Miss.....Arkansas has had to deal with Florida. South Carolina, LSU, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, and a series win over Alabama. Every league team Arkansas has played has been ranked. Five of those in the top 13.

Arkansas being 9-9 at this point is more impressive than Alabama being 12-6, when comparing league competition.

Yes, these are power ranking and trends are considered, but so is your level of competition. Over the last 3 weeks Arkansas has gone 6-5 against teams all ranked inside the top 17 of polls.

Alabama hasn't played a ranked opponent in three weeks, while Arkansas has played South Carolina, UNLV, LSU, and Vanderbilt.

I don't care about the 1-run losses. If anything, that just shows you can't win the close ones. And the series win against Bama isn't as significant as you are making it. Should Vanderbilt be ahead of LSU???

Finally, i never said it doesn't matter who you play. My point was that Ark isn't consistently beating good teams in a series. Will Bama? That remains to be seen. But they've handled their business so far and they deserve to be up there above Ark.

LSU 30-10
South Carolina 30-10
Ole Miss 30-11
Vanderbilt 29-12
Alabama 28-12
Florida 27-13
Kentucky 26-14
Mississippi State 26-15
Tennessee 25-13
Arkansas 25-16
Texas A&M 24-17
Georgia 21-18
Auburn 22-19
Missouri 17-21

No, that's not my argument at all

Arkansas being 9-9 with their schedule, being 6-4 over their last 10 games, all against opponents ranked #17 or higher. COUPLED with the fact Arkansas won the head to head series.

That, in my opinion is more impressive than Alabama only being 3 games up on Arkansas while having played.....Auburn, Texas A&M, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ole Miss, and Arkansas.

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COUPLED with the fact Arkansas won the head to head series.

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Then it is part of your argument. I know it's not the only piece. I was just exaggerating to make my point that you seemed not to understand.

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Auburn, Texas A&M, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ole Miss, and Arkansas

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Auburn is the only consistently bad team here. The other 5 have played very well at times.

RPI and Result:
Auburn - 57 - W
A&M - 63 - W
Tenn - 26 - W
Kentucky - 11 - W
Ole Miss - 9 - W
Ark - 51 - L

Ark Opponent RPI and Result:
LSU - 13 - L
Florida - 1 - L
USC - 4 - W
Miss St. - 40 - L
Alabama - 16 - W
Vanderbilt - 15 - W

Y'all have 3 wins vs. top 16. They have 2 with Tennessee just outside the top 25. Y'all have a loss to Miss St with 2 other losses to top teams. Their "bad" loss is to you guys. Like I keep saying. They have taken care of business so far and completely deserve where they are.

Georgia's is almost as bad.