I find the d1 baseball Projected Field of 64 as the most reasonable of all the ones I’ve looked at, although there are a lot of similarities between all of them, if not out and out copying.
Using it as a basis of my calculations, I have completely worked all of the NCAAT regionals, Super Regionals, CWS bracket play, and have determined who the National Champion will be.
However, I’m keeping it a secret.
I need to wait and see the real brackets in case I have to tweak anything.
All I’m allowed to say at this point is it will be exciting.
And also:
1. Only 4 National Seeds will make it to Omaha. That’s 50% and less than the average of 5.
2. 6 regional hosts will get ousted. That’s 63%, lower than the average of 67%.
3. 1 regional #3 seed will win their regional and become the Cinderella team. That’s about average.
4. The other 7 regional hosts will make it to a Super Regional. That’s 88%, higher than the average 71%.
5. The Super Regionals will include:
— 2 in which both teams are SEC, which is a little less than it’s been lately
— the SEC will win 4, which is a little less than it’s been lately
— the ACC will win 3, that’s about average
— 1 will have a mystery winner who has a familiar name to college baseball fans
— 5 will have to play a deciding 3rd game; 3 will be 2-0 sweeps; that’s a little higher than normal game 3’s
6. Each CWS bracket will contain 2 SEC teams. That’s pretty normal lately.
7. The mystery SR winner will be grouped with 2 SEC and 1 ACC and will make it to the bracket finals.
8. Each bracket finals will have an SEC team involved. That’s just like the last few years have been.
9. The championship series will pit 2 SEC teams against each other. That’s been typical in recent years.
10. Obviously, the National Champion will be an SEC team. That’s been true every year since 2019. (That would have been 2017 but Arkansas pissed it away in 2018 because they couldn’t catch a pop foul fly ball. Poor DVH, he deserved better. BTW, the 2nd baseman who flubbed that ball was chosen over Austin Martin for All-SEC first team in 2018. That was karma being a bitch.)
11. The new champion from the SEC will be different than most of the last 5.
(This is actually like a logic puzzle; you have all the info you need to figure this out, but it’s almost impossible to do that, causing you to throw your pencil down, curse loudly and scare your spouse and children and pets, and throw the logic puzzle book in the trash. After that you will remove it from the trash, dust off the coffee grounds, and go at solving it another day. The result will be the same as the day before. Rinse, repeat. But don’t ever give up. Winners never quit and quitters never win. Your motto should be “Good, better, best, I’ll never rest, until my good is gooder and my better is best.” Say it like you mean it; authenticity matters in life.)
After I see the real brackets on Monday I will tweak my full brackets and, after careful study and thought and lots of shots of espresso, will then create my final Mystery NCAAT Brackets about 2 am in the morning.
At the end of everything I’ll tell you how accurate I was.
Until then, mum’s the word … used by British lads when talking about their mother.
Also until then, my filled-out brackets will be kept in a mayonnaise chair on Funk and Wagnall’s porch until such time as I am ready to tell the world what’s about to happen and in order to truly believe that I did not cheat. This will happen sometime prior to the first pitch of the first regional game on Friday, May 30th. Probably around noon
I’ll give you a teaser.
Make sure you purchase both Regional AND Super Regional tickets when they go on sale on Tuesday, May 27, and Tuesday, June 3 for seats at Hawkins Field,.
I’m feeling magnanimous after we completely annihilated the bad boys from the east today so I’ll give you another teaser.
Make sure you have enough beer to last you as if you knew ahead of time that we all only had less than a month to live before a meteor strikes earth and all the dinosaurs like me are extinguished, but you don’t know exactly what day that will be because Billy Bob Thornton is going to try and fly a nuclear bomb into the meteor and bust it up, thereby saving the world from extinction.
And that’s why we all love Billy Bob Thornton.
I still think he was robbed of the Oscar for his portrayal of yours truly in the movie “Sling Blade.” Please let Tony Vitello know that “I ain’t got to reason to kill nobody” …. Just be sure to tell him what happened at the end of the movie. And also remind him that some people call it a Kaiser blade, not a sling blade, and it can be purchased at both Lowe’s and Home Depot, both of which are located in Knoxville. They also have a local Ace Hardware and Ace is the place with the helpful hardware man (although some are now women these days; Hardware workers I mean, not men. Oh wait. Maybe both?)
Also tell him I know where he lives because I once followed his speeding Maserati as it sped through the UT campus careening off numerous UT undergrads.
Finally, let him know my personal motto is, “I will hunt you down, I will find you, and I will kill you” and that this does not only apply to the Vandy season ticket holders who sell their seats to UT fans. It also applies to college baseball coaches I don’t like, which, now that I think about it, is quite a few people.
Good thing there are a lot of lawyers on here because I may need one for the trail, another for the mistrial, one for the retrial, two or three for the many appeals, and, finally, one to plead before the Supreme Court to save my life. Fat chance that’ll happen but one can always try because that way you might get more than one last meal. Winner!
Using it as a basis of my calculations, I have completely worked all of the NCAAT regionals, Super Regionals, CWS bracket play, and have determined who the National Champion will be.
However, I’m keeping it a secret.
I need to wait and see the real brackets in case I have to tweak anything.
All I’m allowed to say at this point is it will be exciting.
And also:
1. Only 4 National Seeds will make it to Omaha. That’s 50% and less than the average of 5.
2. 6 regional hosts will get ousted. That’s 63%, lower than the average of 67%.
3. 1 regional #3 seed will win their regional and become the Cinderella team. That’s about average.
4. The other 7 regional hosts will make it to a Super Regional. That’s 88%, higher than the average 71%.
5. The Super Regionals will include:
— 2 in which both teams are SEC, which is a little less than it’s been lately
— the SEC will win 4, which is a little less than it’s been lately
— the ACC will win 3, that’s about average
— 1 will have a mystery winner who has a familiar name to college baseball fans
— 5 will have to play a deciding 3rd game; 3 will be 2-0 sweeps; that’s a little higher than normal game 3’s
6. Each CWS bracket will contain 2 SEC teams. That’s pretty normal lately.
7. The mystery SR winner will be grouped with 2 SEC and 1 ACC and will make it to the bracket finals.
8. Each bracket finals will have an SEC team involved. That’s just like the last few years have been.
9. The championship series will pit 2 SEC teams against each other. That’s been typical in recent years.
10. Obviously, the National Champion will be an SEC team. That’s been true every year since 2019. (That would have been 2017 but Arkansas pissed it away in 2018 because they couldn’t catch a pop foul fly ball. Poor DVH, he deserved better. BTW, the 2nd baseman who flubbed that ball was chosen over Austin Martin for All-SEC first team in 2018. That was karma being a bitch.)
11. The new champion from the SEC will be different than most of the last 5.
(This is actually like a logic puzzle; you have all the info you need to figure this out, but it’s almost impossible to do that, causing you to throw your pencil down, curse loudly and scare your spouse and children and pets, and throw the logic puzzle book in the trash. After that you will remove it from the trash, dust off the coffee grounds, and go at solving it another day. The result will be the same as the day before. Rinse, repeat. But don’t ever give up. Winners never quit and quitters never win. Your motto should be “Good, better, best, I’ll never rest, until my good is gooder and my better is best.” Say it like you mean it; authenticity matters in life.)
After I see the real brackets on Monday I will tweak my full brackets and, after careful study and thought and lots of shots of espresso, will then create my final Mystery NCAAT Brackets about 2 am in the morning.
At the end of everything I’ll tell you how accurate I was.
Until then, mum’s the word … used by British lads when talking about their mother.
Also until then, my filled-out brackets will be kept in a mayonnaise chair on Funk and Wagnall’s porch until such time as I am ready to tell the world what’s about to happen and in order to truly believe that I did not cheat. This will happen sometime prior to the first pitch of the first regional game on Friday, May 30th. Probably around noon
I’ll give you a teaser.
Make sure you purchase both Regional AND Super Regional tickets when they go on sale on Tuesday, May 27, and Tuesday, June 3 for seats at Hawkins Field,.
I’m feeling magnanimous after we completely annihilated the bad boys from the east today so I’ll give you another teaser.
Make sure you have enough beer to last you as if you knew ahead of time that we all only had less than a month to live before a meteor strikes earth and all the dinosaurs like me are extinguished, but you don’t know exactly what day that will be because Billy Bob Thornton is going to try and fly a nuclear bomb into the meteor and bust it up, thereby saving the world from extinction.
And that’s why we all love Billy Bob Thornton.
I still think he was robbed of the Oscar for his portrayal of yours truly in the movie “Sling Blade.” Please let Tony Vitello know that “I ain’t got to reason to kill nobody” …. Just be sure to tell him what happened at the end of the movie. And also remind him that some people call it a Kaiser blade, not a sling blade, and it can be purchased at both Lowe’s and Home Depot, both of which are located in Knoxville. They also have a local Ace Hardware and Ace is the place with the helpful hardware man (although some are now women these days; Hardware workers I mean, not men. Oh wait. Maybe both?)
Also tell him I know where he lives because I once followed his speeding Maserati as it sped through the UT campus careening off numerous UT undergrads.
Finally, let him know my personal motto is, “I will hunt you down, I will find you, and I will kill you” and that this does not only apply to the Vandy season ticket holders who sell their seats to UT fans. It also applies to college baseball coaches I don’t like, which, now that I think about it, is quite a few people.
Good thing there are a lot of lawyers on here because I may need one for the trail, another for the mistrial, one for the retrial, two or three for the many appeals, and, finally, one to plead before the Supreme Court to save my life. Fat chance that’ll happen but one can always try because that way you might get more than one last meal. Winner!
