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FAU Baseball in the 2016 Polls

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FAU #17 in ncbwa poll. UF drops to #3. Wednesdays game vs. #2 UM.
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I think we are ranked in every poll now. Even baseball America moved us into the 25th spot 
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Polls for 3/28:

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I really hope we make up this game we need every chance we can get for wins and to increase our RPI.
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Our RPI will be fine even if we don't make it up. Better if we make it up and win. But ok without. Now we need to head to Virginia and take at least 2 vs ODU. Just keep winning
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NCAA emphasis on RPI has declined a little over the past two years. It really is a joke for baseball. It was changed several years ago to favor northern teams, and went way overboard in doing so. As it is now, your own adjusted record accounts for 25% of your RPI, your opponents non-adjusted record accounts for 50%, and your opponents opponents non-adjusted record accounts for 25%. While baseball has a home team advantage of 55% to 45%, it follows more closely basketball's 65% to 35% advantage.

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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MLBBoca said

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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So….Should we try to win or lose ? Man, I'm lost.
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Our win over ODU brought us up 15 places in WarrenNolan RPI, and then MTSU defeat of Rice brought us up another 5. At this moment, sitting at 38.
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Loved seeing the MTSU score. C-USA is a very good baseball conference.
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