Game Thread Lady Vols Softball SEC Tournament

[LA Vol]

I don’t know of a sport that has a selection committee that looks solely at the RPI.

I hate Georgia and wish nothing but bad things for them, but I came to the same opinion as the committee.

They finished higher in league standings. They won the head to head, including 2 run rule games. They beat the league champ in a weekend series.

I think they got it right.

Yeah, you've made your position extremely, excessively clear over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. We get it, okay. We. Get. It.

 

[LurkerExposed]

Me thinks you're confusing objective vs subjective. Choosing random pieces of a total season to use as criteria to justify your position, while minimizing or ignoring the season as a whole, is subjective, not objective.

We have an RPI for a reason, to eliminate the subjective. The only piece of a total season you can reasonably choose to highlight that's not part of the RPI, I don't think, is late season record/momentum. Even that is subjective, but at least it's logical. Everything else worth considering is already figured into the RPI.

The SEC is represented by 12 of the top 23 teams in the nation in RPI this season, and the 13th SEC team is ranked 34th. 11 of them are in the top 20.

The Regionals won't offer that kind of competition, and the WCWS will be hard pressed to equal it. I imagine the committee took that into heavy consideration.

The top 4 SEC teams this season were UF, UGA, USC, and UT. Both UGA and USC played UF while not facing each other, and UT faced each of those teams but only met UF once in the SECT. UT lost to UGA at home in a series, and were swept by USC in Columbia. Both UGA and USC had better conference records than UT did.

In RPI, UT was 8th, UGA 10th, and USC right behind at 11th. But I'm thinking the committee placed greater weight on the conference schedule RPI as opposed to say, the non-conference RPI during February and March. Had the SEC been a weaker conference, then it could've been the opposite - sort of like what UConn in WBB has to deal with every year.

But there is no reason to look months in the past when SEC teams have to play in a meat grinder every season, at the end of the season and closest to tournament time. IMO, even though overall UT has the better RPI then both UGA and USC, if one were able to split the SEC-schedule RPI from the rest of the season, then UGA and USC would be ahead of UT. And that's how the seeding ended up....

 

[Volfan2012]

RPI or where you played your games didn't mean much to this selection committee. Georgia played 35 games at home to our 22. So we'll go to their place and play if we win our regional.

 

[vol-un-tear]

10th seed . cant blame the committee because our pitching is suspect.

Offense is suspect

 

[Volfan2012]

Offense is suspect

The entire team is suspect hitting and pitching still I thought that 18 wins vs the top 25 would be enough to get home field advantage. We'll see what this team can do both pitchers not pitching that well. Moss has regressed from freshman to now. Arnold hit or miss. Neither has been consistent strike throwers getting ahead of hitters in count so here we are. If we win our regional Georgia awaits on their home field.

 

[sccshortstop]

Offense is suspect

Truthfully the defense lately is as well. This team did a great job but maybe overachieved somewhat!

 

[GameTime]

Hard to get happy after reading this thread.....

 

[1CHATTVOL]

Maddie Shipman said she expects it to be an Arnold-Barnhill matchup today. That's a little surprising.

If the umps are going to call our slappers out of the box, I hope they call some of those illegal pitches on the Crow-Hopper of the Year.

And tarnish the greatest pitcher of our time? Lol.

Even with the public outcry (including from umpires), there have been very few illegal pitches called on her. More than in previous years, but it only shows her down for a few pitches.

When pitching legally, she is very good but not untouchable. Nowhere near Abbott or Osterman or other greats.

 

[1CHATTVOL]

The entire team is suspect hitting and pitching still I thought that 18 wins vs the top 25 would be enough to get home field advantage. We'll see what this team can do both pitchers not pitching that well. Moss has regressed from freshman to now. Arnold hit or miss. Neither has been consistent strike throwers getting ahead of hitters in count so here we are. If we win our regional Georgia awaits on their home field.

Iirc, we have a pretty good record on GA'S field. Maybe this crap will all work out for the best.

 

[1CHATTVOL]

The SEC is represented by 12 of the top 23 teams in the nation in RPI this season, and the 13th SEC team is ranked 34th. 11 of them are in the top 20.

The Regionals won't offer that kind of competition, and the WCWS will be hard pressed to equal it. I imagine the committee took that into heavy consideration.

The top 4 SEC teams this season were UF, UGA, USC, and UT. Both UGA and USC played UF while not facing each other, and UT faced each of those teams but only met UF once in the SECT. UT lost to UGA at home in a series, and were swept by USC in Columbia. Both UGA and USC had better conference records than UT did.

In RPI, UT was 8th, UGA 10th, and USC right behind at 11th. But I'm thinking the committee placed greater weight on the conference schedule RPI as opposed to say, the non-conference RPI during February and March. Had the SEC been a weaker conference, then it could've been the opposite - sort of like what UConn in WBB has to deal with every year.

But there is no reason to look months in the past when SEC teams have to play in a meat grinder every season, at the end of the season and closest to tournament time. IMO, even though overall UT has the better RPI then both UGA and USC, if one were able to split the SEC-schedule RPI from the rest of the season, then UGA and USC would be ahead of UT. And that's how the seeding ended up....

But what about GA's big decline without their pitcher who led them to their success? And she's not coming back. Here's a team that lost to Arkansas in the first round 8-3 to continue the free fall, and they were gifted a super regional...?

I just don't get it.

 

[VOL_Lyfe]

But what about GA's big decline without their pitcher who led them to their success? And she's not coming back. Here's a team that lost to Arkansas in the first round 8-3 to continue the free fall, and they were gifted a super regional...?

I just don't get it.

Lu-Harris has powers you cannot imagine.....