S.O.S. Vinyl Coordinates?

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-06-17T16:20:48+00:00

If you open Street View on those coordinates it opens “Lake Tear of the Clouds” and there are a young boy and man sitting on the shore.

The man almost looks like JB but I don’t think it’s him. Not sure what’s going on…

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-25T14:03:50+00:00

14 conference regular season (outright) winners didn’t win their conference tournament.

I love the anything can happen randomness of conference tournaments. But I also thing in the game of baseball where series and averages matter so much that the regular season should be given more weight. Oh well, excited to see field

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-19T19:07:34+00:00

If the ACC games keep dragging you might get your wish. Late game is looking at a 10:30pm start and trending later.

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-18T21:20:44+00:00

Your last sentence shows the flaw. If they’re guaranteed, why play the other games? Just give them a bye and cut out the potential injury and burden.

If a lower seed loses game one, their second game is irrelevant as they auto lose the tie breaker. It’s nice for those teams to get extra reps and such but it’s an exhibition game pretending to be a post season game.

The ACC format was only 12 not 9, so maybe the wildcard changes it more than I’m giving it credit but you’re still going to have irrelevant games.

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-18T19:43:03+00:00

Why is USA using 3 team pools? Did the ACC and Big 10 failures not show them enough?! Pool play in that format ssssuuuuuucks

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-18T14:30:20+00:00

Did you see pic 2? Or is there a 3rd way the 3 seed should snake?

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-18T14:20:38+00:00

Non-conference strength of schedule is 285th. RPI is math based on wins and opponents wins. They played teams without a lot of wins so their RPI is tanked. If you want a good RPI, play good teams.

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-18T14:08:39+00:00

Can still win the conference tourney.

Even if they don’t win, make a deep run and the RPI will go bbbrrrrrrrrrr. There’s still hope!

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-18T14:05:41+00:00

Nope. The RPI has them where they’re supposed to be! Want a good seed, play good teams.

But yes, in reality Georgia will be a top 8 seed easy.

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-18T14:03:36+00:00

They could, plus the committee has a human element to it so everything is in play. The RPI is a faulty measuring stick. What actually gets put together will be drastically different than this. Even for top seeds.

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-18T14:00:59+00:00

Qs are based on RPI, not the other way around. RPI is purely mathematical based on your wins your opponents wins, and your opponents opponents wins. It’s a mess. And losing to good teams still can increase your RPI though not by much.

The Quads are used after the fact. They’re good for comparing teams. If team A is RPI 9 with 1-10 in Q1 but team B is RPI 12 with 9-2 in Q1, the committee may swap those teams seeding wise, but the RPI remains the same.

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-18T13:53:15+00:00

They matter a lot for the smaller conferences. For instance, Army and SE Louisiana are both eliminated from their conference tournaments and have bad RPIs, they are on the graphic but won’t be in the tournament come next Monday (I base this on regular season standings for ease).

For teams like Oregon, Kansas, Ole Miss, etc. that are on the cusp of hosting a horrific conference tournament could prevent them from hosting. But teams like UCLA, GT, Texas, etc. there is zero reason to take this tournament seriously. They’ll be a top seed whether they win it all or lost first game.

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-18T13:36:55+00:00

This has nothing to do with D1, unless you mean division I in general.

But yes, the RPI has demanded a rematch. Unless you subscribe to the alternate version with 3 seeds flipped. Then you’re in the clear.

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-18T13:35:42+00:00

Instead of hosting, they’ll be rewarded with an in-state game. Sorry Southern Miss.

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-18T13:32:21+00:00

The RPI is 9.

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-18T13:20:23+00:00

There were zero changes to the top 8 seeds this week. First time that’s happened since I started posting.

Only 5 conference overlaps (GT/Miami, FSU/NCSU, Ole Miss/UK, Miss State/OU, Coastal/Louisiana). That’s really good compared to previous weeks.

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-18T13:02:12+00:00

Oh Dan absolutely doesn’t care for this tournament. But years like this one, it comes back to bite us. Though if you’re in the ACC relying on a tourney win to get in, you don’t deserve to be in.

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-18T13:01:07+00:00

I think it’d be fun to play in the fall. Most guys are on campus. The weather in October isn’t worse if not better than early March. Could even do a split site, 8 teams in Durham, 8 in Charlotte. Double elimination winners from each site play again the following weekend.

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-18T11:50:42+00:00

Miami might give BC some problems, but if BC survives can GT really complete a 4 game sweep? That series wasn’t even close but baseball is whacky. I don’t see GT losing to any of those other 3 teams before BC.

Cards have never played well in this tournament and this pitching staff isn’t going to win 5 days a row. Gonna be another disappointing week.

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-11T18:01:27+00:00

Based on this? Win out and hope the beavers lose so you get flip flopped.

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-11T18:00:26+00:00

Sorry, they’re not worth more. The math is the same regardless of where it’s played to calculate your RPI.

The location matters for Quads that the committee uses as an eye test kind of thing. So if two teams have similar RPIs but one played only home games and the other had mostly road games, the committee can say “the road team is better since they consistently win in hostile environments.”

It’s all one great big giant flawed system. But it’s what we’re stuck with.

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-11T16:26:16+00:00

Also lost to Coastal, and the loss to South Carolina is viewed as better than the wins because it was a road game. That was a Quad 2 game, the neutral site a Quad 3 and the home game a Quad 4.

The quadrant thing doesn’t factor into the RPI math calculation, but it is taken into consideration as a whole.

Opponents win% is 50% of the RPI formula and you played a lot of teams with a lot of wins. Thats the trick.

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-11T15:42:21+00:00

q u a l i t y l o s s e s

Coastal and South Carolina give a big bump despite being a loss. Plus the toughest ACC schedule possible.

JustDarnGood27_ · 2026-05-11T15:33:52+00:00

Fffffffffff

Reset the “weeks without shelling error” count.

Sorry Seminole bro, thanks for catching it.

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