The time has come; near the midpoint of the baseball season, and in the midst of a hectic school semester, I could put off the baseball power rankings I’ve been meaning to generate no longer. College baseball statistics are sparse, far less specific than their professional counterparts - as far as I know, we don’t have Statcast, xwOBA, or exit velocity for the college game. Nonetheless, we can use a model to do what our eyes cannot - parse through a smattering of disjointed datum to identify trends and inform analysis. The initial power rankings are far from ideal, of course, but they work to establish a baseline, and they performed pretty well when I tested them last season - I predicted 7 of the 8 Omaha teams, and two of the final four.
College Baseball Power Rankings: Tech on top, Florida and Stanford not far behind
