college-baseball-tournament Stories - From The Rumble Seat
College World Series 2011: South Carolina, Florida on Verge of Finals Appearances
An all-SEC final series in Omaha is becoming more and more like, with reigning national champion South Carolina and reigning SEC tournament champion (and co-regular season champion) Florida each just one game away from advancing to the three-game title set. Florida started off the day, wrapping up...
College World Series 2011: South Carolina 5, Texas A&M 4 -- What's It Like to Lose a Game?
It has been almost a year since South Carolina lost a game in the NCAA tournament, so it didn't necessarily feel like things were lost when they went down 4-0 in the first inning against Texas A&M in the Gamecocks' first game of the College World Series. And that was even before things got...
College World Series 2011: Florida, Vanderbilt Win in First Games at Generic Corporately Named CWS Stadium
With the new championship series format of the College World Series, it's not quite as important to stay out of the losers' bracket. But it's still important enough to try to stay on the right side of the double-elimination tournament. So far, so good for the SEC after a sweep in the first two...
Day 2 Baseball Conference Roundup
So far here are the conference wins/losses after two days in the NCAA baseball tournament:1. Big East: 2-0 (100.0%)2. SEC: 12-4 (75.0%)3. ACC: 10-4 (71.4%)4. Big 12: 11-5 (68.8%)5. Pac 10: 4-2 (66.7%)6. Other: 23-45 (33.8%)7. Big 10: 2-4 (33.3%)Also of note, #1 seeds are currently 26-6 (81.2%)...
Day 4 Conference Roundup...Pre-Super Regionals Monday
Wow, the standings have changed as many-a-team were eliminated on Sunday:1. ACC: 18-6 (75.0%)2. SEC: 17-7 (70.8%)3. Big East: 2-1 (66.7%)4. Pac 10: 6-4 (60.0%)5. Big 12: 14-12 (53.8%)6. Big 10: 4-6 (40.0%)7. Other: 35-60 (36.8%)Also of note, here's the number of teams remaining from each conference...
No Sports for 93 Days SUXOR
So...we lost. We were the only ACC #1 seed to drop the ball. In fact, our regional allowed the only #3 seed to survive to Super Regionals out of 16 regionals. Woo-freakin'-hoo. I'm glad some people are happy (2). Damnit.The team batted 0.280 (down from 0.315 on the season) for the NCAA tournament...
Teixeira, Wieters, and Other Baseball Updates
After struggling to start the season, Mark Teixeira has taken off for the Yankees. He's leading the team with 17 homers and 50 RBI's. That's 1/6th of the Yankees' total RBI's and 1/5th of the Yankees' total homers. Not bad.Matt Wieters came into the Baltimore organization as a super heralded...
Tracking the NCAA baseball field
I play a lot of Risk. One of my favorite graphs from post-game stats on the computer versions of Risk was the Percent of World Population vs. Time Graph at the end of the game. It showed the eb and flow of the game's momentum, big battles, and major defeats. Here's my Risk World Population Graph...
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