Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College baseball

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Assessment Proposals

A few discussion points on assessment. I'm proposing a few benchmarks for assessment topics falling under our project and would love to hear what you think.

Team Pages

I propose rating each power conference (different from the traditional BCS conferences of football/basketball) team page as a "high" importance article. These articles include team pages for squads from the ACC, Big 12, Big West, C-USA, Pac-10, and SEC. These teams form the core of the college baseball landscape.

I also propose rating each high-major, mid-major, and low-major conference team pages as "mid" importance. These would include all team pages from conferences not included in the "Big 6." While these teams are not as essential, college baseball programs are still essential to the material covered in this project.

Exceptions could be made for non-power conference schools who have achieved particular notoriety. For example, programs which have reached a CWS in the past 10 years could be rated as "high." Another idea is a cutoff date for a CWS appearance earning a program "High" importance, possibly 1999 when the tournament field expanded to 64 teams. This would prevent teams such as Holy Cross, which won a National Title in 1952 but is of little notoriety today, from being given undue attention.

Example- Under these guidelines, "North Carolina Tarheels baseball" would be ranked "High" because of their power conference status. "Louisville Cardinals baseball" would be ranked "High" despite their high-major status thanks to their 2007 CWS appearance, which falls in the past 10 years. "Gonzaga Bulldogs baseball" would be rated "Mid" thanks to its status as a high-major D1 team.

I fully understand that college baseball team articles are limited at best and that assessment guidelines may not seem important right now. However, I think an assessment guideline for team articles would be helpful as more are created in the future.

Venue Pages

I propose rating power conference team venues as "Mid" and non-power conference venues as "Low." In this case, I do not think exceptions should be made for the accomplishments of a program, as this does not apply as accurately to the team's venue.

Example- Under these guidelines, "Doug Kingsmore Stadium" would be rated "Mid" thanks to its being home to a power-conference team, the Clemson Tigers. "Jim Patterson Stadium," home of the Louisville Cardinals, would be rated low. Despite the team's recent success, the venue is still a non-power conference park.

I know the scope of college baseball venues is relatively limited, but, again, I think guidelines would be helpful for future expansion.

College Summer Leagues

I propose rating the articles of top collegiate summer leagues as "High" importance. For me, this is a group of five- the Cape Cod League, Northwoods League, Coastal Plain League, New England Collegiate Baseball League, and Alaska League, in that order. These five leagues are home to premier players from power and high-major conferences every year and, therefore, merit this rating. I propose rating mid-level leagues (West Coast, New York, Cal Ripken, Texas Collegiate, etc.) as "Mid" and low-level leagues containing mostly JuCo players (Triple Crown, Rockingham County, etc.) as "Low."

As far as teams are concerned, I propose rating teams of the "Big 5" leagues as "Mid" and all other teams as "Low."

With ballparks, I would rate all as "Low" with the possible exception of the Cape and Northwoods venues. These leagues are considerably above the rest in terms of talent and fan support and their venues may merit this rating.

You are forgetting about the Valley League in the Shenandoah Valley. In NW Virginia, college baseball players live, work and play in wonderful towns. Mike Lowell was a player there in 1993.

Mattabaseball

I agree it is a good league, easily the best in the South after the CPL. I think it is a top 10 league comparable to Texas and the West Coast, but does not have the talent level of the Cape, NWL, CPL, NECBL, or Alaska. Kithira (talk) 16:24, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Thoughts?

Please sound in with your opinions on these proposals. All above-mentioned assessments would be the WikiProject College baseball rating, NOT the more general WikiProject Baseball rating. Again, I realize the relatively limited scope of our project, but in the midst of the quiet offseason right now, I thought I would bring up this topic. Thanks, Kithira (talk) 02:34, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

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Inactive Template

Just noticed the inactive template. I know I still do a lot of work with the College Baseball project, but I didn't want to presume to speak for all members of the project by removing the template. I'll leave a message here for a few days, and if nobody responds here, I'll start PMing some of the more active people on the participants list. Let's keep WikiProject College Baseball alive! Kithira (talk) 12:46, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

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