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RE: Rice vs UAB- Mark at the Park
Kendall gives up two in the 9th, but the Owls nail down the win 8-5. The game was lost by UAB much more than Rice winning it. They actually out-hit us, and we committed two more errors (and it should have been three more errors). But a win is a win, and UAB is just ahead of us in the standings, and is the only thing between us and Biloxi.

Game Ball #1: Brandon Comeaux (2-4, HBP, double, 1 run, 3 RBIs)-- thanks to his clutch, bases-clearing double in the fourth, which gave us the lead that was never relinquished.

Game Ball #2: Matt Canterino (W, 6-4, 6.0 IP, 5 hits, 3 runs, 2 earned, 0 BBs, 2 HBP, 5 Ks)-- hung in there despite clearly not having his best stuff, and struggling to command his off-speed pitches. Gave us a quality start.

Game Ball #3: Kendall Jefferies (Save #3, 3.0 IP, 3 hits, 2 runs, 1 BB, 5 Ks)-- struggled a bit in the ninth, but worked out of back-to-back, error-induced jams in the 7th and 8th innings, each time striking out the final two batters with runners in scoring position.

Offense needs to get on track and out of it's 2 week and counting slump. The only thing that saved us tonight was the steady gifts granted us by the UAB pitching staff....and even then, it took several clutch hits in one inning to give us the margin of victory. We squandered almost every other opportunity and they were in abundance.

UAB has burned it's only quality starter and two of it's four quality relievers. This should set us up nicely for the next two games, but then again, we have been dominated the past two Sundays by pitchers with ERAs over 5.00.
05-11-2018 10:05 PM
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(05-11-2018 09:58 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Owls win. So we're now 10-13-2 in conference play, and UAB is now 11-14. Technically, we're tied with them in the standings but are we truly tied or does it first go to win-loss percentage?

We are truly tied. Win-loss percentage includes ties as 0.5 wins and 0.5 loss. So our win-loss percentage is based on exactly the same as UAB’s 11.0 wins divided by 25.0 games.

Then, edge is Rice’s on the head-to-head so far (unless there’s a three-way tie which I haven’t yet checked)

So, Walt is mistaken when he said we are behind them. But he might be relying on d1baseball website, which as of last weekend was using the wrong formula (somewhat understandable, there are those who think ‘there’s no tying in baseball’).
CUSA press releases, ESPN, and riceowls.com are computing it correctly so we’re good.

Only time I’ve seen ties ‘not count’ was during the very early days of the NFL when a team won the league with something like a 9-1-2 record. They explicitly changed the rule soon thereafter and since then I’ve never seen ties ‘not count’ in PCT. Of course in baseball they’re so rare.
Some leagues will use “fewest losses” or “most wins” in their tiebreakers. But not CUSA.

Thank you Walt for the play-by-play. When I can’t follow the game live my MO is to read the game thread start to finish.

Also, yesterday morning I purchased our flights to the CUSA tournament.

I believe in this team and this coach.
05-12-2018 05:15 AM
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(05-12-2018 05:37 AM)owl at the moon Wrote:  
(05-11-2018 11:19 PM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  If season ended today, Rice would be in the conference tournament, I believe.

Correct. Three teams are tied at 7th at .440

On the tiebreaker, currently it would seed:
7. WKU (4-2 among tied group)
8. Rice (2-2)
9. UAB (2-4)

Still a very tight group heading down the wire.

Oh, and I checked and d1baseball is still figuring it wrong. (But hey, I’m not on the paid subscription)
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05-12-2018 05:42 AM
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