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Posted on 4/16/25 at 7:11 am to Wishbone85
Posted on 4/16/25 at 7:11 am to Wishbone85
Is Little Rock a high school or college? Asking for a casual baseball watcher.
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Posted on 4/16/25 at 7:25 am to bigDgator
Not SEC, but WVA scored the winning run in the 9th against their rival last night by stealing home. Onions 
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Posted on 4/16/25 at 9:37 am to diddlydawg7
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Dawgs jump to #1 in both RPI & ELO
What is RPI? Runs per inning? Nice stat but I don't remember it from my childhood days of staring at stat books.
What is ELO? A rock band from the 70's? Shite.
Is ERA a thing anymore? RBI's?
Posted on 4/16/25 at 10:20 am to MtVernon
RPI = Rating Percentage Index. Measures your winning percentage, your opponents winning percentage, and the winning percentage of the teams your opponents have played.
Means nothing with a small sample size but by mid-April/eart May it has enough data input to be statistically significant.
ELO doesn’t stand for anything (it’s actually just the name of a guy who developed a rating system for chess a while back) but that’s all it is: a mathematical formula that can be used to predict outcomes of games
Means nothing with a small sample size but by mid-April/eart May it has enough data input to be statistically significant.
ELO doesn’t stand for anything (it’s actually just the name of a guy who developed a rating system for chess a while back) but that’s all it is: a mathematical formula that can be used to predict outcomes of games
Posted on 4/16/25 at 11:02 am to tylerdurden24
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RPI = Rating Percentage Index. Measures your winning percentage, your opponents winning percentage, and the winning percentage of the teams your opponents have played.
That's pretty cool and all... but I have to believe a lot of this stuff is a result of the percentage of Americans that go to college now - vs. in the 1960's for example.
Miners, truckers, carpenters, farmers, mechanics and mailmen weren't hammered with shite like this back then because they didn't care and didn't understand it anyway. They had real shite to do like make ends meet and get food on the table. A baseball game was pleasure, but scarce time and lack of education did not allow for frittering the day away looking at numbers.
Ok done. So that's why I never saw "RPI" in the papers. Don't ask what "papers" were.
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