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Thanks Nuke! I was beginning to wonder if last weekend completely decimated our fanbase.

The ACC has had 9 different schools make the Sweet 16 in the past 5 tournaments. The next closest conference as far as that kind of depth is the Big 12 with 7, followed by the Big East and SEC who both have 6. Additionally the ACC has had 4 different schools with multiple Sweet 16 appearances...

Looks like today's game has been postponed. With the Boston College series being scheduled for Thursday - Saturday to accomodate Easter Sunday, the game can't simply be pushed back a day. I'm guessing it will likely be canceled as finding an open date to re-schedule will be difficult. I wonder...

I don't think it is a rule change, just a point of emphasis. I am also convinced it was not properly applied in the example given above. Will be worth watching as the new season gets started later this week. Here is a link to what I could find on the topic...

I would argue we have already had a significant injury with Giesler being out for 4 weeks now. Getting his bat back in the lineup would be a big help, and the question of where he plays would be a nice problem to have. As it stands, the only consistently good bats have been the two freshmen...

Looking at the bright side, you get to come home now without feeling guilty!

Interesting, I was looking a little more closely at the RPI sheets at Warren Nolan and it literally updated in front of my eyes. We are now at 65 instead of 60. No idea what happened there. However, I do see an error in the calculations...they are counting the Sunday game at Coolray as a home...

I'd be good with your lineup except that I'd flip Brosius and Zmarzlak. Is it possible you looked at the RPI before it included yesterday's games? The RPI I see here ( https://www.warrennolan.com/baseball/2024/rpi-live ) doesn't show what you mention. It shows Florida down to 38 with a drop of...

Agree 100%. Avoid duplicating batters faced is key. It would be nice if we can avoid using anyone on back-to-back days, but in the right circumstance I could see them being used. Certainly the should be fine for Sunday. As THWG stated, for tomorrow we still have Hill, Jones, McKee, Brown, and...

Agree with much of what you wrote. Bullpen performances like we have received this week will enable late inning comebacks, but agree it would be nice to score some runs early so that we don't have to worry about them. I also agree with your take on having Becchetti as the 4-hole hitter. He...

I have to assume, or at least hope, that was an incorrect application of the rule by the umpire. My understanding is that the fielder can go where the ball takes him, and if that is in front of the bag as it was in this case, that is legal. Blocking only occurs when the fielder is blocking the...

Nice problem to have, isn't it?!? IMO, once Giesler is healthy, you have to get him in the lineup. As I've mentioned in other posts (or it may have been in chat), I would start a rotation where one of Giesler, Kerce, Jones, Yunger, Zmarzlak, Brosius is on the bench each game. Of course you...

And we've been cheated out of 1.5 wins by the fact that home wins are discounted too much (that 0.7 should be 0.813 if you assume that the 1.3 is correct for road weighting). I guess that is true for all schools, but is still annoying to me.

Your point about lack of cross-pollination is correct. I have never dove deeply into the discussion, but it is given as a reason that the west coast schools are not well represented in the RPI rankings. The claim is made that their RPIs are penalized by the lower number of schools available to...

Again, RPI is just a formula. There is no bias in it EXCEPT for the weighting given to the delta between home/road games. It appears that NC State is ahead of us because their opponents and their opponent's opponents have a much better win percentage than is the case for ours. As I stated in my...

Nuke, I didn't read your post until after I made my post. Based on the numbers I posted, it appears that not only is 60/40 not way too much, it is almost exactly correct. Is this the ratio that is used?

I don't know how much weighting RPI gives to the home team, but I wanted to see how much of an advantage home field is typically. I looked just at conference games, as in non-conference games it is common for a lesser team to travel to a better team, meaning the home team should have the better...

Agree. It is WAY TOO EARLY to care about RPI. We need at least 3 more weeks, probably more like 4 or 5 before RPI becomes reflective of team strength. That said, when it becomes late enough for RPI to matter, the board in general should remember that RPI is simply a mathematical formula. It can...

This is odd. I wonder who Hall uses as his meteorologist. The weather reports I have seen have the rain starting around lunchtime and running through the afternoon, finishing off around 4 PM. I sorta expected a time change, but in the other direction.

Not sure where to put this, this seems like the best place.... I listened to the Braves game for a bit last night. Wiley Ballard was doing p-b-p while Ben Ingram is getting the week off. I heard Wiley doing some of the Braves studio pre-game work last season, but this is the first time I have...