Baseball RPI update: How is KU doing?

by James Quinn on Mar 17, 2008 12:47 PM CDT

RPI rankings became much more legitimate this week. Kansas came out very well. The Jayhawks rose from #167 to #126 despite losing two of three at Texas. The reasons for this rise are three-fold. First off, KU winning one of three in Austin was probably a slightly better performance than expected. Secondly, by playing Texas the Jayhawks inherited all of Texas' former opponents once removed into their own RPI rankings. The RPI is one part the team's own record + one part their opponent's record + two parts their opponent's opponents record. So playing Texas brought in a rich RPI heritage. Finally, KU's former opponents have been playing well lately. Vanderbilt, Missouri State, Iowa, LeMoyne and North Dakota State all had excellent weeks.

Here are the Big-12 standings as of Monday morning. I have their RPI ranking first, their D-I record second, and their conference ranking last. In general, if Kansas is going to receive serious consideration for an NCAA at-large bid at the end of the year they will need to have posted roughly 40 D-I victories, win at least 13 Big-12 games, and have their RPI in the top-50.

RPI ranking	Team	NCAA D-I record	Big-12 record
9	OSU	11-5	1-2
12	Missouri	13-2	0-0
19	Nebraksa	13-2	3-0
31	Baylor	13-4	2-1
46	Texas	12-5	2-1
47	Oklahoma	15-5	0-0
61	Texas A&M	15-4	2-1
78	Texas Tech	9-8	1-2
83	Kansas State	7-9	0-3
126	Kansas	10-7	1-2

Tracking KU's out of conference opponents - Wins over Missouri State (68), Iowa (150), LeMoyne (192), Xavier (249) and three over NDSU (195). Loses to Vanderbilt (38) and Arkansas (54). Lost a series 3-2 at Hawaii-Hilo (189). Only the UHH series really hurts at this point.

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Conference RPI rankings

Now that about a month of baseball has been played the current RPI rankings are somewhat useful. Here is how the conference's break down so far this season. Information from Boyd's World, which is a great college baseball site:

Rank Rating W L W L Conference
1 0.613 98 37 98 38 Pac 10
2 0.600 140 62 140 62 ACC
3 0.582 118 51 120 51 Big 12
4 0.563 135 64 139 64 SEC
5 0.563 83 64 83 64 Big West
6 0.559 82 57 83 58 WCC
7 0.531 97 53 97 53 C-USA
8 0.526 96 80 100 81 Sun Belt
9 0.521 93 85 93 85 CAA
10 0.520 100 61 105 61 Southern
11 0.513 52 58 55 58 WAC
12 0.506 57 60 57 60 Mountain West
13 0.502 51 70 52 70 Big Ten
14 0.495 62 62 64 63 MVC
15 0.491 92 102 97 107 Southland
16 0.486 65 76 74 87 Atlantic Sun
17 0.476 93 81 94 84 Big East
18 0.472 82 98 86 102 Atlantic 10
19 0.469 24 65 24 67 Horizon
20 0.463 25 42 26 43 Ivy
21 0.461 63 110 66 111 MAC
22 0.461 55 73 57 74 Big South
23 0.460 34 59 38 61 Summit
24 0.444 62 73 67 77 OVC
25 0.442 37 66 38 69 MAAC
26 0.435 58 86 67 91 Independents
27 0.426 28 48 28 48 America East
28 0.414 35 45 36 46 Patriot
29 0.413 43 69 60 80 SWAC
30 0.407 15 66 15 67 NEC
31 0.387 22 74 28 75 MEAC