PEAR's Week 7 Mid-Major Rankings Once again taking inspiration from @11point7, Coastal Carolina has moved up to #1 - even with a series loss. UC Irvine jumps to #3 after sweeping UCSB. 📈 UNCW, Northeastern, Grand Canyon, Cal Poly 📉 Georgia St., Tulane, High Point, Murray St.

PEAR's Week 7 College Baseball Rankings Tennessee is still at 1, but the gap between everyone else has lessened. Vanderbilt and Arizona join the Top 10 as LSU and Wake Forest drop. SEC has 11 of the top 25. 📈 UCLA, Southern Miss. 📉 Western Kentucky, Kentucky

PEAR's Week 5 College Baseball Rankings Tennessee takes over the #1 spot after previous #1 North Carolina drops the series to Stanford. 📈 Georgia Tech, West Virginia, UCF, Oregon 📉 Virginia Tech, Southern Miss, Virginia, Oklahoma State

3/10 Tournament Outlook If the season ended today with the current NET rankings, these are PEAR's projected Hosts, Regionals, and Bubble.

PEAR's Week 5 College Baseball Rankings Tennessee takes over the #1 spot after previous #1 North Carolina drops the series to Stanford. 📈 Georgia Tech, West Virginia, UCF, Oregon 📉 Virginia Tech, Southern Miss, Virginia, Oklahoma State

Week 3 Projected NCAA Tournament Based on the NET rankings, this is how PEAR would seed the tournament. There are no considerations for repeat matchups, conferences, or locations.

Week 3 College Baseball NET Rankings NET incorporates Team Strength and Resume to determine the ranking. Something that should be noted here is there are still pre-season metrics included in here.

As we fully get into college baseball, I'll periodically post this graphic. It is not meant to mimic the decision making of the tournament selectors. It is a PROJECTION based on CURRENT rankings, not a projection of where you’ll end up.

#25 SMU

#24 Nebraska

#23 Arizona State

5 best college baseball games today according to PEAR Game Quality: Southern Miss @ Ole Miss UNCW @ Coastal Carolina Lamar @ Louisiana Tech Troy @ Mississippi St. Charleston @ Ga. Southern

#22 TCU

As of right now, this is PEAR's projected baseball regions. Should stress this: it is very early in the season and this is a fun PROJECTION

#21 Missouri

One of the great things about baseball? All the measuring between teams get much easier as the season goes on. Comparing SOS, records, etc. is dumb after 2 weekends. More Games -> More Data -> Better picture of who is good and who is better

#20 USC

#19 Iowa

How about some lines for this upcoming weekend: Virginia -0.93 Oregon St. Arkansas -1.13 TCU UNC -1.85 ECU

Did someone say College Baseball started? PEAR now officially tracks a college baseball power rating. Top 5? Florida LSU Florida St. South Carolina UC Santa Barbara Check it out here:

#18 Colorado

#17 South Carolina

#15 Texas A&M

#14 Florida

#13 Clemson

#12 Miami

#11 LSU

#10 Tennessee

#9 Ole Miss

#8 Indiana

#7 Georgia

I have "rebranded" from ESCAPE to PEAR. When first creating this account and ratings system, ESCAPE was an appropriate name. However, it is no longer appropriate , thus the name change and rebrand. Nothing will change though! The visuals and posts will stay the same, just under a new name.

#6 Texas

Does your resume over or under perform your roster? If you had a better resume than your talent profile, you’ll end with a positive performance gap. If your resume is in line with your talent, you’ll end with a performance gap of 0. High TPG can show good coaching / scheme.

This was Oregon’s second strongest team since 2014, behind the 2023 team. It was their best finish in the most deserving rankings, at #2.

#5 Oregon This could've been the year for Oregon, but they ran into the buzzsaw of Ohio State in a poorly seeded bracket. A very solid profile for them outside of their offensive explosiveness. An impressive season for Dan Lanning and the Ducks.

This was Alabama’s worst final most deserving rank since 2014, which is how far back ESCAPE goes. It’s the only time they’ve finished outside the top 10. It happened against their second-easiest schedule. A big year in store for the Kalen DeBoer.

Now on the page is the Year Normalized Power Ratings, a Team Filter, and the ability to calculate a spread between two teams from any year. One interesting spread: 2023 Michigan -0.5 2024 Ohio State

#4 Alabama Why Alabama? Their talent level and stat percentiles were very impressive - indicative of a very good team. Their on field production though lacked, leading to a very poor TPG rating. Some mind boggling losses for the Crimson Tide.

Ratings Change from 2023 to 2024 Florida State had the biggest crash from last year, which is not a surprise. Indiana had the biggest jump from last year, which is also not a surprise

This was the best team under Franklin, reaching their highest rating and highest most deserving rank. A lot to be excited about next year for Penn State.

This was Notre Dame’s best team since ESCAPE started tracking in 2014. This was also their highest Most Deserving rank. Notre Dame has improved each year under Marcus Freeman. An 8 point improvement from Kelly’s last season to now.

#3 Notre Dame The runner ups have an extremely impressive statistical profile. A credit to Marcus Freeman and company for performing with the level of injuries they sustained. The Northern Illinois loss is the biggest upset of the year according to ESCAPE.

With the end of the season, I've had time to create ESCAPE Power Ratings for every year back to 2014. Here's the top 10 teams according to ESCAPE: 2020 Alabama 2022 Georgia 2021 Georgia 2017 Alabama 2019 Ohio State 2018 Clemson 2023 Michigan 2019 Alabama 2016 Alabama 2024 Ohio State

#2 Penn State Penn State ended as the second rated team. They had impressive success on both sides of the ball, but were bad at creating and limiting explosive plays. Penalties were also an issue for them.

Over the weekend, I went back and compiled the ESCAPE ratings for the playoff era. Some interesting results I drew from it, but for now, it's available on the website if you'd like to check it out.

#1 Ohio State Ohio State had really good metrics all year. However, according to ESCAPE, they under-performed their talent levels with their two losses to Oregon and Michigan even though they won the national championship.

Starting tomorrow, I'll be sharing the ending stat profiles for every FBS team. Who knows if I finish, but we will be counting in order of the final power ratings from ESCAPE. A fun exercise to show every team!

I'll probably post a lot of these stat profiles throughout the offseason, but how about this one. Woof Purdue. A whole lot of red on this, and a very tiny spider web. Purdue ended up being the worst P4 team in the country by a wide margin.

The final offense vs defense chart