Shocks Host Oklahoma State (Moved to Wednesday)

[Play Angry]

Here is the RPI Needs Report from Boyd's World (not yet updated to reflect last night's results):

Remaining: 18 home, 12 road, 0 neutral
Current RPI: 6
ROWP: 0.514

Top 45:

5 home wins, 12 road wins
6 home wins, 11 road wins
7 home wins, 10 road wins
8 home wins, 9 road wins
9 home wins, 7 road wins
10 home wins, 6 road wins
11 home wins, 5 road wins
12 home wins, 4 road wins
13 home wins, 3 road wins
14 home wins, 2 road wins
15 home wins, 0 road wins

Top 32:

8 home wins, 11 road wins
9 home wins, 10 road wins
10 home wins, 9 road wins
11 home wins, 8 road wins
12 home wins, 7 road wins
13 home wins, 5 road wins
14 home wins, 4 road wins
15 home wins, 3 road wins
16 home wins, 2 road wins
17 home wins, 0 road wins

Top 16:

12 home wins, 11 road wins
13 home wins, 10 road wins
14 home wins, 9 road wins
15 home wins, 7 road wins
16 home wins, 6 road wins
17 home wins, 5 road wins
18 home wins, 3 road wins

Top 8:

15 home wins, 12 road wins
16 home wins, 10 road wins
17 home wins, 9 road wins
18 home wins, 7 road wins

[Cdizzle]

Based on this, looks like it's going to be VERY difficult to maintain the RPI near where it is, but within reason to be hovering around the national seed cut line. Impressive

[Play Angry]

ISR from the same source sits at 8 this morning (inclusive of last night's result).

[Cdizzle]

Dayton Dugas is 13 for 36 (with just 5 strikeouts) over his last 10 games, raising his average from .209 to .278 during that period. His last couple bombs have been absolute jacks and he is really in the zone - happy to see him have some success as it looks like the early season adjustments previously discussed have done wonders for his contact rate.

Last night was a lot of fun - beating OSU in baseball will always add a little extra magic for this Shockers fan. I know the weather is projected to once again be disgusting this weekend but hopefully some extra folks will get out their long johns and support these guys - this is the best team we've had in quite a while and they certainly deserve it.

Go Shocks!

Is there anywhere (public/free) to look at splits for college players? Curious if this has anything to do with facing a higher% of lefty pitching via platoon, or just across-the-board improvement. Either way, it is very nice to see.

Agree about beating the Pokes. Any chance they squeeze one in today to take advantage of the weather?

[Play Angry]

I've wondered the same thing regarding splits and other advanced stats but haven't come across anything useful - would be curious if other posters have a site they use for this.

[ShockerFever]

I think it’d be pretty dumb to not play today. Unless Tulane is content flying over here, laying low for a couple days, and playing 1 game on Sunday.

[Play Angry]

They might be just fine with that - I suspect the Green Wave would take a cancellation or two in a tough road series, and it takes two to tango to move it up on a travel day for the visitor.

[SPEShockAlum]

I think it’d be pretty dumb to not play today. Unless Tulane is content flying over here, laying low for a couple days, and playing 1 game on Sunday.

Agreed. No real advantage to either team - both would go on short rest.

[Cdizzle]

Nice piece on Sanburn from Paul S.: http://goshockers.com/news/2018/4/5/...angry-act.aspx

[1972Shocker]

Highlights from the OSU game. It didn't take very long for Dayton's game winner to get out of the park. Maybe he is starting to adjust to being able to see the ball.

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/981932423117189120