Tweaking the selection process for the NCAA baseball tournament

This will be some very informal writing on how to fix the selection process for the field of 64. After watching the recent selection announcement and the disparity in outcomes (*cough cough* Starkville), I've brainstormed and came up with a few ideas to improve equity in the process. Here are the four things I came up with:

1) Committee - the committee needs to be realigned and term limits should be cut in half from 4 years to 2 years. It should consist of five people from the power 5 and then five from the non-power 5 for a total of 10 people. The non-power 5 spots should be divided into five pools based on conference and rotated between those conferences every 2 years. My proposed pools are listed below:

Pool A - C-USA, AAC, Sun Belt, MVC

Pool B - WCC, Big West, MWC, WAC

Pool C - Southland, A-Sun, SoCon, Big East, CAA

Pool D - OVC, America East, Big South, A10, Horizon, MAC

Pool E - Summit, Patriot, NEC, SWAC, MEAC, Ivy, MAAC

These pools balance geography (the west is guaranteed 2 spots) and competitiveness with the top non power conferences being rotated more often than the bottom non power conferences.

2) Video - this should be fairly straightforward. The committee needs to have their meetings streamed and available for viewing much like a government entity. This will Hold Them Accountable™ and prevent any deal making where committee members get their school a favorable draw because of their position.

3) New selection metric - the RPI is an antiquated way to measure teams. The committee needs to adopt a more modern metric where margin of victory is taken into account. The basketball process was modernized a few years ago when the RPI was gotten rid of to make way for the efficiency-based NET. A rating system comparable to the Massey rankings would be a much more ideal and accurate way to determine how good a team is.

4) S-Curve - the field needs to be seeded 1-64 like the basketball tournament is seeded 1-68. The #1 overall seed should get the #32 overall seed (the weakest #2 seed). The #16 overall seed should get the #17 overall seed (the strongest #2 seed). And so on. The bracket should be based on competitiveness and not geography. The strongest #4 seed Wright State shouldn't be playing a top 3 seed while the #13 overall seed ECU gets a bottom 2 team in the field because of geography. The decision to seed teams from 1-16 (changed from 1-8) that was made in the fall of 2017 was a good move but needs to be taken a step further.