Softball Games of Interest, Week of 3/24- 3-31

[VObserver]

You are referring to two different things.

1) The "adjustments made to our opponents records" you mention is simply the method by which each teams' OWP is calculated. When an OWP is calculated for a given team, the team's results against each opponent is removed from that opponents' OWP contribution. For example, Wright State contributes an OWP of .5714 (weighted by three games) to the Cajuns' OWP. This is because a record of 12-9 (.5714) is used, not 13-11 (.5417).

However, note that your own winning percentage contributes to your OOWP calculation. This is why winning is not 25% of the formula, but slightly more. That is, your opponent's OWP includes your WP, which is used to calculate your OOWP.

2) The secret adjustments are not really secrets. They are adjustments (bonuses/penalties) for non-conference road games vs. certain RPI ranked competition. They have adjusted these constants over time some ... but they are easy to reverse engineer from the data.

Brian

Easy for you, GG, no so much for us mere mortals in math and computers.

[VObserver]

Last night's games:

Cal vs Weber State Cal 10 Weber St 2
Miami vs Pitt Miami 10 Pitt 6
JMU vs UVa UVa 12 JMU 3

[VObserver]

Series This Weekend

OU vs Ks
Cal vs Utah
LSU vs aTm
MSU vs FL
Texas vs Ok St
Baylor vs ISU
Stanford vs Az
Miami vs Buffalo
New Mexico vs Nevada
Colorado St vs SDSU
Nicholls vs Lamar
McNeese vs Northwestern St
ULM vs Marshall
Coastal Carolina vs GaSo
JMU vs GaSt
LTU vs Liberty We want a split
Tx St vs USA We want a split