Someone on here told me that 50% of RPI is your opponents won/loss record. That makes RPI a hugely flawed stat because it hurts teams that play West Coast teams.

Baseball is a little different in the South than it is out West and also in the North as well. One major difference is we have some really, really BAD teams here. I'm not talking about Sun Belt or C-USA teams at all. There are definitely plenty of GOOD teams. The BAD teams I am talking about are SWAC teams. Most every SEC team plays a few SWAC teams and some UT-Martin's which are basically almost programmed wins and glorified scrimmages.

Out West, you have a lot more quality mid majors that are more comparable to a South Alabama or USM. And people like USC play them pretty much every week. Cal State Fullerton, Long Beach State, Cal Santa Barbara among others can more than hold their own with any PAC 12 team. Basically you have a smaller gap between the mid majors and the PAC 12 teams. And they ALL want to beat the USC's and UCLA's every year- which means those teams are basically someone's World Series every Tuesday. And there aren't very many SWAC-esque teams out there.


The result is everyone out there beats each other up, which results in about a 30 win season if your team is good. However the problem is RPI perceives that as your opponent being "down" which thus hurts your RPI. If USC or Oregon played SEMO State this year in a three game series I would imagine that the PAC 12 team would likely win a three game series because the PAC 12 team is the better team. RPI says that SEMO State is "better" based on their math though.

The good news is the selection committee doesn't base EVERYTHING on RPI. It's only one component of the equation.

Now, I do like playing PAC 12 teams because they do play a different style and we may very well see that style in a regional and have to deal with it. I do think that one thing we could do is maybe schedule an ACC team as well as a PAC 12 team. That might help us keep from getting burned by RPI when our PAC 12 opponent inevitably can't hold up their end of the deal.

Or they could do like Shotgun said and just actually pick the best teams.