Sunday, March 29
Riverside Sports Complex
1:00 PM
UC Riverside
vs
Cal State Fullerton
Photo by: UCR Athletics Media Relations
Baseball Achieves Highest Rankings Ever At boydsworld.com
3/29/2009 9:42:49 AM | Baseball
The UC Riverside Baseball team, off to its second-best start in the Division I history of the program at 16-5, began entering a number of the national polls and ranking systems over the last two weeks. Following the split of the first two-games of their three-game series with top ranked Cal State Fullerton, the Highlanders find themselves in some rarified air as far as the program is concerned on the collegiate baseball website boydsworld.com.
Boyd Nation, the owner and operator of the website, ranks teams using what he refers to as a "Pseudo-RPI" which closely matches the official RPI (Ratings Power Index) used by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee at the end of the season. As of games played through March 28, UC Riverside is ranked 14th in the nation using this metric - the highest ranking ever for the program. Prior to this season, the highest the Highlanders ranked in the Pseudo-RPI was 36th back during the 2003 season.
The boydsworld.com website also tracks a team's Iterative Strength Rating (ISR) "designed to measure the quality of a team's season to date by combining their winning percentage with the difficulty of their schedule." The Highlanders are second in the country behind Cal State Fullerton in this measure. The program's previous ISR high-water mark was ninth back in April of 2003.
The Big West is ranked fourth in the nation in Conference Pseudo-RPI rankings and second in ISR.
For additional information about these and other advanced collegiate baseball metrics, please visit boydsworld.com and the boydsworld.com FAQ.
Boyd Nation, the owner and operator of the website, ranks teams using what he refers to as a "Pseudo-RPI" which closely matches the official RPI (Ratings Power Index) used by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee at the end of the season. As of games played through March 28, UC Riverside is ranked 14th in the nation using this metric - the highest ranking ever for the program. Prior to this season, the highest the Highlanders ranked in the Pseudo-RPI was 36th back during the 2003 season.
The boydsworld.com website also tracks a team's Iterative Strength Rating (ISR) "designed to measure the quality of a team's season to date by combining their winning percentage with the difficulty of their schedule." The Highlanders are second in the country behind Cal State Fullerton in this measure. The program's previous ISR high-water mark was ninth back in April of 2003.
The Big West is ranked fourth in the nation in Conference Pseudo-RPI rankings and second in ISR.
For additional information about these and other advanced collegiate baseball metrics, please visit boydsworld.com and the boydsworld.com FAQ.
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