Baseball RPI strategy

[GoneGolfin]

A road win counts for 1.3 wins. A home win counts for .6 wins.
A road loss is .6 losses. A home loss is 1.3 losses

Neutral site games are worth one win if you win and one loss if you lose.

1.3 and 0.7.

You also need the # of games to sum to 2 (one game for each team) for each game played.

Brian

[Turbine]

1.3 and 0.7.

You also need the # of games to sum to 2 (one game for each team) for each game played.

Brian

So (?) with a home series win Louisiana sits at +0.1
UC Irvine is at -0.1

[GoneGolfin]

So (?) with a home series win Louisiana sits at +0.1
UC Irvine is at -0.1

More importantly and more specifically, the Cajuns sit at a 1.4 wins and 1.3 losses ... a WP of 51.85 (.5185) ... 2.7 games played. Note that going 2-1 on the road results in 3.3 games played.

Brian

[Turbine]

the Cajuns sit at a 1.4 wins and 1.3 losses ... a WP of 51.85 (.5185) ... 2.7 games played. Note that going 2-1 on the road results in 3.3 games played.

For a total of 6 games played in the series I gather?

[Turbine]

More importantly and more specifically, the Cajuns sit at a 1.4 wins and 1.3 losses ... a WP of 51.85 (.5185) ...

Which was how I got to +0.10 obviously not the important(ly) number they are looking at.

What is the formula to get .5185 ...?

[GoneGolfin]

For a total of 6 games played in the series I gather?

Collectively, yes.

Brian

[GoneGolfin]

Which was how I got to +0.10 obviously not the important(ly) number they are looking at.

What is the formula to get .5185 ...?

The WP for 1.4 wins and 1.3 losses.

And the reason total games is important ... if you are a team that has a WP over .5000 (striving for postseason play), it is more advantageous (for example) to win a game at home and lose on the road (if you are to win one and lose one) vs. the converse. IOW, having 0.7 wins and 0.7 losses is better than 1.3 wins and 1.3 losses.

Brian

[covcaj]

The WP for 1.4 wins and 1.3 losses.

And the reason total games is important ... if you are a team that has a WP over .5000 (striving for postseason play), it is more advantageous (for example) to win a game at home and lose on the road (if you are to win one and lose one) vs. the converse. IOW, having 0.7 wins and 0.7 losses is better than 1.3 wins and 1.3 losses.

Brian

You lost me on that last scenario. Can you explain?

[Turbine]

The WP for 1.4 wins and 1.3 losses.

And the reason total games is important ... if you are a team that has a WP over .5000 (striving for postseason play), it is more advantageous (for example) to win a game at home and lose on the road (if you are to win one and lose one) vs. the converse. IOW, having 0.7 wins and 0.7 losses is better than 1.3 wins and 1.3 losses.

Brian

So 1.4 divided by 2.7. Got it

[Turbine]

One interesting thing (if I'm reading this right) is, if you get swept at home in a 3-game series the rating "system" says you played 3.9 games.

If you sweep a home series you played. 2.1 games.

... If I'm reading this right.

[GoneGolfin]

One interesting thing (if I'm reading this right) is, if you get swept at home in a 3-game series the rating "system" says you played 3.9 games.

If you sweep a home series you played. 2.1 games.

... If I'm reading this right.

Precisely. Of course, an exact balance of home and road contests on a played schedule would precisely yield the number of games played.

Brian

[GoneGolfin]

You lost me on that last scenario. Can you explain?

If your WP is over .5000, a result yielding 1.3 wins and 1.3 losses is more damaging than 0.7 wins and 0.7 losses. It does more to bring your WP closer to .5000 than the 0.7 wins and 0.7 losses scenario. The opposite is true for WP under .5000. But teams with a WP under .5000 are not competing for post-season play (where RPI comes into play as being important). As such, if you are playing two games (one home and one road) and your WP is over .5000, winning the home game is more important than winning the road game.

Brian