RPI Watch - morning of May 4th

[AuroraHawk]

Hard to use too many superlatives to describe last night's game. An all-around solid and convincing team win.

Going into the game last night, Iowa sat at #59 RPI.
As of this post, Iowa moved up to #51.

Here's how last night's results impacted Iowa's RPI ratings (based upon games listed yesterday on Warren Nolan's site):

Iowa over UC Irvine - worth +40 RPI points

Evansville's loss to Southern Illinois - Iowa loses 4.7 RPI points
Oklahoma State's win over #4 Oregon State - Iowa gains 3.4 RPI points
Bradley's win over Valparaiso - Iowa gains 2.7 RPI points
Cal State Northridge's loss to #13 UC Santa Barbara - Iowa loses 3.8 RPI points
Illinois' win over Indiana - Iowa gains 2.8 RPI points
Chicago State's loss to Seattle University - Iowa loses .7 RPI points
Rutgers' win over Penn State - Iowa gains 4.9 RPI points
Hawaii's loss to Cal Poly - Iowa loses 5.4 RPI points
Indiana's loss to Illinois - Iowa loses 5.5 RPI points (Iowa nets (- 2.7) RPI points in this game)
Purdue's win over Michigan State - Iowa gains 5.0 RPI points
NET TOTAL OF "INDIRECT GAMES": (-1.3)


Games not listed on Warren Nolan's site yesterday involving Iowa's previous opponents (not sure why the site doesn't list all games):

Illinois State beat Indiana State
Pittsburgh beat Florida State
Illinois-Chicago beat UW-Milwaukee
UW-Milwaukee lost to Illinois-Chicago
Northern Illinois lost to Ball State
George Mason lost to Fordham
Marshall lost to Texas-San Antonio

According to Warren Nolan, here is the breakdown for games being played today: http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2019/team-impact?team=Iowa

Assuming only a single game today . . .
With a win, Iowa would gain a net of 35 points; 37 points for an Iowa win; (-2) for a UCI loss.
With a loss, Iowa would loss a net of 30.1 points; (-31) for an Iowa loss; +.9 for a UCI win.

At #51, Iowa is 3 points behind #50 Evansville; 24 points behind #49 Alabama; 34 points behind #48 Texas and 46 points behind #47 Michigan.

Last night's win really put Iowa in a good spot. The UCI series is right there for the taking. Even a split of the next two games would likely leave Iowa in the 50s for RPI. They can't gain much, if any, ground against WIU or MSU but the Maryland series provides an opportunity to put up decent points.

Wouldn't hurt to have some teams above Iowa drop some games.

Bring on game #2 . . .

 

[Franisdaman]

Hard to use too many superlatives to describe last night's game. An all-around solid and convincing team win.

Going into the game last night, Iowa sat at #59 RPI.
As of this post, Iowa moved up to #51.

Here's how last night's results impacted Iowa's RPI ratings (based upon games listed yesterday on Warren Nolan's site):

Iowa over UC Irvine - worth +40 RPI points

Evansville's loss to Southern Illinois - Iowa loses 4.7 RPI points
Oklahoma State's win over #4 Oregon State - Iowa gains 3.4 RPI points
Bradley's win over Valparaiso - Iowa gains 2.7 RPI points
Cal State Northridge's loss to #13 UC Santa Barbara - Iowa loses 3.8 RPI points
Illinois' win over Indiana - Iowa gains 2.8 RPI points
Chicago State's loss to Seattle University - Iowa loses .7 RPI points
Rutgers' win over Penn State - Iowa gains 4.9 RPI points
Hawaii's loss to Cal Poly - Iowa loses 5.4 RPI points
Indiana's loss to Illinois - Iowa loses 5.5 RPI points (Iowa nets (- 2.7) RPI points in this game)
Purdue's win over Michigan State - Iowa gains 5.0 RPI points
NET TOTAL OF "INDIRECT GAMES": (-1.3)


Games not listed on Warren Nolan's site yesterday involving Iowa's previous opponents (not sure why the site doesn't list all games):

Illinois State beat Indiana State
Pittsburgh beat Florida State
Illinois-Chicago beat UW-Milwaukee
UW-Milwaukee lost to Illinois-Chicago
Northern Illinois lost to Ball State
George Mason lost to Fordham
Marshall lost to Texas-San Antonio

According to Warren Nolan, here is the breakdown for games being played today: http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2019/team-impact?team=Iowa

Assuming only a single game today . . .
With a win, Iowa would gain a net of 35 points; 37 points for an Iowa win; (-2) for a UCI loss.
With a loss, Iowa would loss a net of 30.1 points; (-31) for an Iowa loss; +.9 for a UCI win.

At #51, Iowa is 3 points behind #50 Evansville; 24 points behind #49 Alabama; 34 points behind #48 Texas and 46 points behind #47 Michigan.

Last night's win really put Iowa in a good spot. The UCI series is right there for the taking. Even a split of the next two games would likely leave Iowa in the 50s for RPI. They can't gain much, if any, ground against WIU or MSU but the Maryland series provides an opportunity to put up decent points.

Wouldn't hurt to have some teams above Iowa drop some games.

Bring on game #2 . . .

my head's spinning! LOL

 

[Franisdaman]

IOWA is now just 1/2 game out of 2nd in the B1G.

The current B1G Standings: https://d1baseball.com/conference/big-ten-conference



Today's scores of significance:

04 Ohio State
05 Minnesota
18 innings

Ohio State at
Minnesota, Game 2
PPD to May 5, Scheduling conflict

01 #19 Indiana
03 Illinois

10 Michigan
04 maryland

02 Nebbie
04 N'western

Sort by Top 25, by conference, etc here: https://d1baseball.com/scores/?date=20190504&c=PZFJi

 

[AuroraHawk]

I reached out to Warren Nolan yesterday and asked why certain games involving Iowa’s previous opponents are not included in his “Indirect Impact” games page. He responded by informing me that his site only lists games that have a potential impact of 2 RPI points in either direction.

So ... there you have it.

 

[Franisdaman]

In the pregame of today's game, they said Iowa's RPI is currently 49

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

In the pregame of today's game, they said Iowa's RPI is currently 49

Going to fall back to basically where it was before the series. Tell me what is wrong with that picture.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

Going to fall back to basically where it was before the series. Tell me what is wrong with that picture.

Tollllllld you.