re: SEC Baseball Tournament Bracket...In Progress...Scoreboard Links Inside

I know it's the new normal but turning on the SECT to see Kentucky playing Oklahoma is weird.

Oklahoma with the win provides a small benefit to LSU's RPI. If they could take out Georgia tomorrow it would be even better.

ETA: Pulling for South Carolina against Florida for the same reasoning as pulling for Oklahoma. We played South Carolina, but not Florida.

Pulling for Mississippi State in the late game because they're on the cusp of being Quad 1 wins for us.

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Is there an RPI site that shows the actual formula number to see the impacts?

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Not that I've seen. I'm just going off the general "we get a bump when a team we played beats a team we didn't" thing.

It might be negligible because even though Oklahoma's winning % goes up a little bit (50% of formula), Kentucky is a common opponent opponent and their win % goes down (25% of the formula).

It's a bigger impact for non-conference teams. Also, I don't think Mississippi State can reasonably get to be a Q1 win for us (in our home games against them) without beating us along the way. Which would be worse for us. We would get an extra Q1 win by beating them at Hoover though because the neutral site Q1 range is bigger than the home one.

SC has bases loaded & no outs Top 1st
Sully doesn’t look happy

Gators turn a DP but SC gets a run across

Bot 1st
SC leads 1-0

Top 3rd
Florida leads 3-1

Bot 5th
Florida leads 7-1

Will this be the 1st run rule of the tourney?

Going to 8th
Florida still leading 7-1

Bot 8th
Florida up 7-3
Now 10-3 with no outs
Now 11-3 with no outs

Top of the 9th
SC last chance coming up

SC 3rd team eliminated from tourney

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It might be negligible because even though Oklahoma's winning % goes up a little bit (50% of formula), Kentucky is a common opponent opponent and their win % goes down (25% of the formula).

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But Oklahoma is a common “opponents’ opponent” as well aren’t they? In other words, the negative impact on the 25% from Kentucky losing should be offset* by the positive impact on the same 25% from Oklahoma winning. Meanwhile, we gain the full affect on our opponent ranking (the 50%).

*Technically I would expect the positive opponents’ opponents impact from Oklahoma to be slightly less than the negative impact from Kentucky, simply because OU played one of their 10 SEC series against us while Kentucky played all 10 against other teams. But even that could go the other way if for some weird reason more of our opponents played OU than Kentucky.

Idk, it makes my head hurt. In any case it probably is marginal simply because it’s only one game.

Florida still hot

Florida was +3100 to win the SEC tournament

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So that means that the team we play Friday won’t have a day off before they play us.

UF lit up that last pitcher.

Mainieri should just call it a day and let his team go home.