re: Official AU Baseball Thread 33-22 overall (13-17 SEC)

Respectfully disagree. I want to win every game we have but in terms of getting in the regionals I think yesterday did it. Here is a little known tidbit. Auburn has won 3 of it's 7 series versus SEC teams that will be in the NCAAs. They are tied with Bama at 2 games each. If we win Tuesday we will have won 4 of 7 series and there should be no doubt after that. I seriously doubt most teams on the bubble can say the same thing.

1 new projection just released has Auburn in and not on the bubble line. LINK

I think one more win is needed. 2 more and I think we eliminate any doubt.

If you say so. Still alot of ball to be played. As of right now, I think we help in some way or form

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Guys I don't see how anyone still believes we are on the bubble or even have a possibility of getting left out. I'd like to see some numbers to counter what ellitor has thrown out there instead of "ahh yeah we could def get left out we have bad losses" and shite.

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If it were a computer selecting who makes the tourney, then yeah I think we would get in no problem. Unfortunately it's a committee, which is still made up of humans for what my sources tell me. So things going against us:

1) Finish last in our division
2) Bad conference record
3) Poor OOC quality
4) No real signature wins (you can argue for the MSU and OM wins, but they are low in the polls;on the opposite foot Arky is ranked as a top15 team, but their RPI is low)
5) Bad overall record
6) The plethora of automatic qualifying teams
7) 7ish SEC teams are already locked in
8) Bad start took us off everyone's radar
9) We're Auburn, and its 2013

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1) Finish last in our division 2) Bad conference record 3) Poor OOC quality 4) No real signature wins (you can argue for the MSU and OM wins, but they are low in the polls;on the opposite foot Arky is ranked as a top15 team, but their RPI is low) 5) Bad overall record 6) The plethora of automatic qualifying teams 7) 7ish SEC teams are already locked in 8) Bad start took us off everyone's radar 9) We're Auburn, and its 2013

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Counter points

1) If you look at conference wide yes but if you look at West only opponents, which will have 6 and possible all 7 teams in the NCAAs if TAMU makes a long run in the SEC Tourney, then you have a different story. Since you only play 4 of the 7 teams in the other division conference schedules are not made equal nor should they be judged equally. In West only games Auburn is 5th in the division at 8-10, comfortably ahead of Bama 6-11 and TAMU 5-12
2)a number of SEC team have made the NCAAs with a 13-17 SEC record.
3)OOC quality may be poor in your eyes but it is still quite a bit better than OOC schedules for most bubble teams
4)The only reason Arky's RPI is so low is they had a brain fart in an early tourney loss to RPI 244 Pacific. You throw that one out, which the committee will do in seeding Arky, then you have a top 20 RPI.
5) 33-22 is not a bad overall record. It's not great but it's not bad either
6) there are 34 at large spots and Auburn is on of the 34 best of the rest teams in the nation.
7) 8 SEC teams are virtually locked in but that does not matter. The SEC has put 9 and I am pretty sure 10 in the NCAAs before
8) Fair enough but that makes winning 6 of the last 9 versus teams in the field all that more impressive.
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I'm not looking to get into a point/counterpoint discussion. Rig wanted something more than "we lost to bad teams" so I threw out what was on the top of my head. I can agree with some of what you say...the only problem is there won't be an Auburn fan in the conference room to make those counterpoints. Our bads might overshadow our goods. We'll see in a couple days

Just hard to swallow a 13-17 SEC team that is the 10th seed (by a small margin) in the tournament not winning in the SEC Tourny and still making it in.

How you stack up in your conference has been a deciding point in previous selections according to writers out there.