FAU Baseball in the 2016 Polls
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To properly adjust for baseball's home team advantage, a home win would count as 0.9 of a win, and a home loss as 1.1 loses. Likewise, a road win would count as 1.1 wins, and a road loss as 0.9 of a loss. In actuality, the home wins and road losses count as 0.7, and home losses and road wins count as 1.3. Then, RPI is far more dependent upon your opponents record than your own, again to favor northern teams.
So, if a team visits us, and we take 2 of 3, in and of that series itself, the visiting team actually gains over us in the current RPI system:
FAU RPI:
Adjusted record (2 * 0.7 and 1 * 1.3): 1.4 wins and 1.3 losses for a winning percentage of .5185, times 25% of RPI total for .1296
Opponent's record 1-2, for a win percentage of .333 times 50% for .1667
Opponent's Opponent's record 2-1 for a win percentage of .6667 times 25% for .1667
Total FAU RPI: .463
Visitor RPI:
Adjusted record (1 * 1.3 and 2 * 0.7): 1.3 wins and 1.4 losses for a winning percentage of .4815, times 25% of RPI total for .1204
Opponent's record 2-1, for a win percentage of ..6667 times 50% for .3333
Opponent's Opponent's record 1-2 for a win percentage of .3333 times 25% for .0833
Total Visitor RPI: .537
So, for the series itself, the Visiting team that lost the series picks up .074 RPI points. With that being 3 games of a 56-game schedule (assuming maximum games scheduled, no rainouts), that translates to .004 points (.074 * 3 / 56) at the end of the regular season. If we otherwise played identical schedules with identical results, the team from which we took 2 of 3 would likely be ahead of us by 4-5 places in RPI standings at the end of the year. For what it's worth, even if we swept them, but otherwise had identical records, we would be exactly tied in RPI at the end of the year. There are huge problems with the NCAA's baseball RPI system, and the northern teams want to make it even worse.
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So, if a team visits us, and we take 2 of 3, in and of that series itself, the visiting team actually gains over us in the current RPI system…Posted On: Apr 1st 2016, 10:28 AM #355479
To quote a famous judge, that's just:
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