A Look At The Top Entering 2013 Season…
As the season progresses, CB360′s 100-point Composite National Rankings formula ultimately is centered around 15 core ingredients – plus a bonus/penalty factor based on record over final-10 games. The CNR combines a diverse collection of “experts” (ranging from coaches, various media, computer calculations and postseason projections) – to help provide a preview of teams that could be in the running for the 2013 NCAA Championship field (hypothetically 50 teams, plus 14 others from lower-rated automatic-bid conferences).
(We will be releasing a detailed look at the CB360 preseason top-50 … CLICK HERE to look back at the 2012 preseason CNR release).
CB360 Preseason Composite Top-50 Rankings (2013)
1-Arkansas …
2-North Carolina …
3-Vanderbilt …
4-LSU …
5-UCLA …
6-Stanford …
7-South Carolina
8-Oregon …
9-Oregon State …
10-North Carolina State …
11-Kentucky …
12-TCU
13-Mississippi State …
14-Florida …
15-Florida State …
16-Louisville …
17-Oklahoma
18-Georgia Tech …
19-Arizona …
20-San Diego …
21-Rice …
22-Mississippi …
23-Cal State Fullerton
24-Texas …
25-Texas A&M …
26-Miami …
27-Arizona State …
28-Clemson …
29-Virginia
30-UC Irvine …
31-Baylor …
32-New Mexico …
33-Southern Mississippi …
34-Coastal Carolina
35-Missouri State …
36-Kent State …
37-Wichita State …
38-East Carolina …
39-Dallas Baptist
40-Tulane …
41-Sam Houston State …
42-Georgia …
43-Florida Atlantic …
44-St. John’s
45-Pepperdine …
46-Virginna Tech …
47-College of Charleston …
48-Auburn …
49-Elon …
50-Notre Dame
COMPOSITE NATIONAL RANKINGS (CNR) CRITERIA: Teams receive points based on their standings in each poll/rating/projection (60 pts for #1; 59 for #2, etc.). For polls involving voting points (coaches and CB) and the various RPI-type ratings, the CNR adjusts to reward teams that have larger margins in the voting/point totals (whereas two teams with nearly the same voting-point total will be closer in the CNR allotment for that poll). Note that strength-of-schedule typically is factored into RPI formulations … thus the actual SOS numbers only are used early in the season (SOS are not used in the CNR when RPI already are in the mix). For the NCAA field projections, teams are awarded CNR points based on their respective seedings, “last in” and “last out,” etc.
The polls/ratings/projections are averaged, with 40 points typically then added to each total in order to yield the 100-point benchmark. Early in the season (projected SOS) and late in the season (final-10 games), a maximum bonus/penalty of 0.3 (SOS) or 0.5 points (final-10) is factored into the formula (in that case, 39.7 or 39.5, rather than 40, is added to the poll/rating/projection avg.).
Here are links to the eight criteria currently used in the CNR:
• National Coaches Poll (USA Today/ESPN)
• National Collegiate Baseball Writers poll
• Baseball America poll, in conjunction with BA’s NCAA Tournament projection
• Colllegiate Baseball magazine rankings
• Perfect Game preseason rankings, in conjunction with PG’s NCAA Tournament projection
• Boyd’s World projected season strength-of-schedule (bonus points)