Can you name the three pitchers that were selected?
Osterman, Finch, Abbott. Most would include those three on a list of the best five ever (I would also include AT). At that point I would have taken AT over Finch who had graduated in '02 but Mike Candrea was the coach so . . . . It was 2008. At that point the debate was really just getting started about west coast versus everywhere else superiority. Sure the bias was there but the game had evolved in the west. The first East Coast team win the ASA national championship did not occur until 2005 when the NOVA based Shamrocks won it all, ironically, the year after AT played for them.
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Professional statistician and occasional poster here.
-- HokieEngineer22
May 11, 2026 at 11:09 AM ET
HokieEngineer22
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05/11/26 11:09 AM ET
As a metric person, I would probably just say the RPI has shortcomings
-- nkhooch
May 11, 2026 at 03:28 PM ET
nkhooch
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05/11/26 03:28 PM ET
The statistical term re: the RPI would be “extremely underparameterized”
-- HokieEngineer22
May 11, 2026 at 04:15 PM ET
HokieEngineer22
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05/11/26 04:15 PM ET
Come on now. The win/loss record "sounds" useful?
-- nkhooch
May 11, 2026 at 04:57 PM ET
nkhooch
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05/11/26 04:57 PM ET
That’s not quite how building robust rating systems work.
-- HokieEngineer22
May 11, 2026 at 05:56 PM ET
HokieEngineer22
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05/11/26 05:56 PM ET
Best post I have seen on the subject. There is absolutely no logical
-- Hokie_Forester
May 11, 2026 at 02:04 PM ET
Hokie_Forester
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05/11/26 02:04 PM ET
Well, how wast Angela Tincher not on the USA Olympic team, yet…
-- TomA
May 11, 2026 at 12:37 PM ET
TomA
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05/11/26 12:37 PM ET
Can you name the three pitchers that were selected?
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-- MidloHokie
May 11, 2026 at 03:46 PM ET
MidloHokie
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05/11/26 03:46 PM ET
As Ronald Coase said “If You Torture the Data Long Enough, It Will Confess”
-- Va AandM
May 11, 2026 at 12:32 PM ET
Va AandM
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05/11/26 12:32 PM ET
Yep, pick the teams you want and then select and weight the stats to
-- BEST2VT
May 11, 2026 at 12:58 PM ET
BEST2VT
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05/11/26 12:58 PM ET
Ah, Finagle’s Rule: draw curve then plot your points. Works every time **
-- Va AandM
May 11, 2026 at 01:06 PM ET
Va AandM
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05/11/26 01:06 PM ET
It feels the same every time this happens. The committees
-- baumerj
May 11, 2026 at 11:35 AM ET
baumerj
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05/11/26 11:35 AM ET
Only comeback is to win. Go Hokies. **
-- skautdog
May 11, 2026 at 11:18 AM ET
skautdog
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05/11/26 11:18 AM ET
You're "RPI is a joke" line, although probably true, was the death ....
-- hokietony
May 11, 2026 at 11:14 AM ET
hokietony
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05/11/26 11:14 AM ET
Then they have contradicted themselves because they didn’t follow RPI…
-- HokieEngineer22
May 11, 2026 at 11:20 AM ET
HokieEngineer22
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05/11/26 11:20 AM ET
Committee contradicts self. Story at 11! 😉**
-- HokieNL
May 11, 2026 at 04:27 PM ET
HokieNL
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05/11/26 04:27 PM ET
In general they did, only 1 non-top 16 RPI team is a host.**
-- hokietony
May 11, 2026 at 11:22 AM ET
hokietony
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05/11/26 11:22 AM ET
That exception is sort of what I am trying to point out.
-- HokieEngineer22
May 11, 2026 at 11:32 AM ET
HokieEngineer22
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05/11/26 11:32 AM ET