Softball Conference Tournaments of RPI Interest

[RaginScotsman]

Final tally of the effect on our Opponents' Record portion of our RPI after Day 2 of Conference tournaments:

Nicholls: 4 wins/2 losses
LSU: 2 wins/0 losses
JMU: 3 win/0 losses
UCA: 2 wins/0 losses
La Tech: 2 wins/0 losses
McNeese: 2 wins/2 losses
Miss St: 0 wins/2 losses
USM: 0 wins/3 losses
Total: 15 wins/9 losses

Today's Games with direct effect on our record and/or our opponents' record

Louisiana vs JMU
LSU vs Tennessee
Oklahoma vs BYU/OSU
Cal vs Stanford
Baylor vs UCF
Texas vs UCF/Baylor [Texas if UCF]
UCA vs N Florida
LaTech vs WKU
Liberty vs NMSU
Miami vs Toledo
Colorado State vs Nevada
Chattanooga vs Mercer
Troy vs CCU [either is good]
ULM vs USA
Tx St vs Marshall

Other games of interest

Missouri vs Arkansas
Georgia vs Florida [can both lose?]
UCLA vs Oregon St.
Notre Dame vs FSU
Ga Tech vs Va Tech
South Carolina vs TX A&M
Arizona vs Washington [can both lose?]
Clemon vs UVA
BYU vs Oklahoma State
Indiana vs Northwestern
Utah vs Oregon

The second group are games involving teams that either we could pass or could pass us.

This is a pivotal day for our seeding.

Made my skin crawl pulling for TSAB, but it was big because the Bama loss helped us too. Don’t know if I can do it again. Is it that big a deal if I’m a Vols fan today?

[CajunSID]

Made my skin crawl pulling for TSAB, but it was big because the Bama loss helped us too. Don’t know if I can do it again. Is it that big a deal if I’m a Vols fan today?

Haven’t looked at the RPI last couple of days, but I’m assuming UL just wants Arkansas to lose today.

Miss State and Alabama losing yesterday was nice. LSU winning tournament probably helps UL a little but not enough for me to pull for them!

[VObserver]

Made my skin crawl pulling for TSAB, but it was big because the Bama loss helped us too. Don’t know if I can do it again. Is it that big a deal if I’m a Vols fan today?

If I am interpreting the information correctly the difference to our RPI between an LSU win and and LSU loss is .00033, but don't hold me to that. I could be off by a factor of 10.

It is a small difference, but could be significant.

[VObserver]

Haven’t looked at the RPI last couple of days, but I’m assuming UL just wants Arkansas to lose today.

Miss State and Alabama losing yesterday was nice. LSU winning tournament probably helps UL a little but not enough for me to pull for them!

We would have preferred that MSU won yesterday and today, then lose tomorrow. We definitely want Arkansas to bet Missouri; if we win and Missouri loses, we will possibly pass them up, but Arkansas will not pass us up by winning.

We also want South Carolina to beat aTm.

[VObserver]

With that win we are breathing right down Missouri's neck. A Missouri loss today would put us past them, with them having no chance to gain on us if we win one more. Also, Chattanooga won today, and has moved back into the top 75 base RPI, which restores the bonus for two quality road wins. We may be past Missouri already.

[GoneGolfin]

#50 BYU giving #8 Oklahoma State problems, leading 3-0 T4th ... runners at second and third with 1 out.

Brian

[GoneGolfin]

With that win we are breathing right down Missouri's neck. A Missouri loss today would put us past them, with them having no chance to gain on us if we win one more. Also, Chattanooga won today, and has moved back into the top 75 base RPI, which restores the bonus for two quality road wins. We may be past Missouri already.

No, Chattanooga was already in the Base RPI Top 75 at #72 through yesterday 5/8. So that bonus was already included in the 5/8 official RPI.

But Louisiana Tech moved into the Base RPI Top 75 (from 76 to 73). So the Cajuns now get this one game RPI bonus (once again).

We are still behind Missouri (.66260 to .66027).

Brian

[VObserver]

So far today:

Louisiana 8 JMU 0 [+ 1 win on our record]+ [+ 31 wins/18 losses on opponents' record]
Chattanooga 10 Mercer 0 [+ 2 wins on opponents' record]

[VObserver]

BYU leading 5-0 in 6th, the Cougars have runners on 2nd and 3rd and no outs.

[GoneGolfin]

BYU leading 5-0 in 6th, the Cougars have runners on 2nd and 3rd and no outs.

BYU is a bubble at-large team playing for their season here. They are certainly motivated.

Brian

[VObserver]

They have a good way to go; they are a pretty far down the bubble.

Now up 7-0

[VObserver]

BYU 7 OSU 2 Final