RPI - Texas A&M

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I found this to be very interesting. There has been a lot of talk about RPI. Right now UH sits at 74. Winning the ECU series next weekend could help that a lot. ECU is at 32, and the series is at ECU.

While looking into RPI a bit out of boredom this morning, I stumbled on this. Somehow I had not heard about it this week: https://247sports.com/Article/Texas-AM-baseball-Aggies-cancel-Incarnate-Word-game-to-protect-chances-of-hosting-NCAA-regional-187481879/

Flat-out canceled a game on the schedule for no reason other than to protect RPI. No weather issues … just to protect RPI.

I think that’s wrong. Don’t schedule Incarnate Word if you don’t want to play them. Plus, there are contracts involved. I guess IW also agreed to not play from what I can tell. Still, this is ridiculous to me. You chose to schedule them, A&M…

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At first I thought the topic was RIP - Texas A&M and I was happy for a second.

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Yes, that is very weak but it has happened before….most of the time it’s not so obvious….

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I remember us doing it a few years ago.

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I read it that way too! Then I figured, may as well read about their rpi.

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Yep, did not want to open a can of worms but you are correct……

And UIW will still get their money.

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While it is weak, it happens. I believe that we cancelled a game with SFA a couple of years ago for basically the same reason. Maybe Covid came into play, but playing that game was going to kill our RPI.

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That’s insane to me. If you scheduled them, play them.

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Apparently this is just gonna be a “thing” now. High Point vs. Liberty just canceled (mutually agreed upon) for the same reasons…

Why even bother scheduling games past, say May 1? Why not schedule up until May 1 and then after that put together opponents last minute based on RPI.

“Hey, Eastern Kentucky, you’re decent this year. Wanna come to Houston next Tuesday?”

“Hello, UC Santa Barbara, can we come to your place Thursday for a doubleheader. It’ll help us both in the RPI.”

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Cancelling the game was the smart thing to do. Scheduling them in the first place wasn’t.
A lot of ECU fans were really critical of us when we cancelled our series last year. They were on the bubble to host and did end up being awarded a regional. Did they ever apologize for being so obnoxious and thank us for cancelling? :thinking:

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I had to do some digging to find this old topic. Looks like the NCAA is going to address it.
College Baseball: NCAA warns about canceling games due to RPI

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It is Bush League and should never be rewarded. A&M should lose their top 8 seed. I mean, you are seriously afraid to play IW because you may drop a spot in the RPI? You should lose 10 RPI spots when this occurs. I doubt if the NCAA will do anything about this given that it makes too much sense to do something, though.

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Just make it a forfeit for the higher ranked team.
I noticed there were twelve games cancelled yesterday, the day that story broke. Eight of them I’d consider suspect, most notably #47 Purdue at #216 Ball State and #48 Arizona State at #212 Grand Canyon.

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I understand what you are saying but dropping 10 RPI spots would cause a lot more damage than just forfeiting and losing the game. And, yes, the ASU game was cancelled because of GCU’s RPI numbers.

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But they played prairie view the week before

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Chicken :poop:

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After their loss at then #107 UH, AZ ST dropped 8 spots (from #45 to #53). I think they would have dropped more than 10 spots with a forfeit loss at #212 GCU.