Question: How many SEC baseball teams have played a schedule of games so far where LESS than 50% of the opposing teams were Quad 4 (the lowest)?
Answer: 4
Toughest schedule: 25% Quad 4 -- Vandy, Auburn, Ole Miss. Texas is next at 43%.
Everybody else has played at least 53% Quad 4 teams.
53% South Carolina
59% Alabama, LSU, UTjr
61% Florida
69% Oklahoma, Georgia, Miss State
75% Missouri (and they've lost 2 of them)
Easiest schedule so far?
Texas A&M
An amazing 80% of their opponents are Quad 4. AND THEY LOST 2 OF THOSE GAMES!
To break the 3-way tie for toughest schedule I went the opposite route, how many Q1 and Q2 teams has each team played.
Auburn 56%
Vandy 50%
Ole Miss 44
However, Vandy has played 6 Q1 games, at least twice as many as any other SEC team.
[Several teams have played 0 Quad 1 opponents: Florida, Kentucky, A&M
and several others have only played 1 Quad 1 opponent: Tennessee, Texas, LSU, and Missouri
Still pretty close but it's pretty clear Vandy has played the toughest schedule by far, other than Auburn, which is close.
We play each other next weekend so we'll both still have the toughest schedule this time next weekend.
Your Quad is based on your RPI which, though just week 4, is settled in pretty well, but obviously not perfect yet.
{Utxas Rio Grande Valley is #1 so that won't last long, Xavier is #2 probably because they played UT and us twice and before that Oregon State twice and Stanford 4 times}
10 SEC schools are in the Top 27 RPI rank:
4. UT
8. Ole Miss
9. Vandy
10. Auburn
11. Arkansas
14. Alabama
15. Oklahoma
18. Georgia
21. Texas
26. Florida
27. South Carolina
[BTW, we play ALL of those other teams except Carolina. That's 9 of our 10 SEC series. I don't think there's any doubt that Vandy will, at the end of year, have played the toughest schedule of any SEC team.]
* RPI is updated instantly as games are completed so the numbers will change a little after Sunday's game, but probably not much given how weak the other SEC teams opponents are this weekend.
LSU lags at #102
A&M is #117 [that's what happens when you lose to to multiple Quad 4 teams along with a Quad 3 team]
Missouri is the worst [in all ways] at #242, having lost to four Quad 4 teams.
How did we get so lucky to be one of the few SEC teams that don't play Missouri this year? (the others are UK, USCjr, Auburn, and UTjr)
Answer: 4
Toughest schedule: 25% Quad 4 -- Vandy, Auburn, Ole Miss. Texas is next at 43%.
Everybody else has played at least 53% Quad 4 teams.
53% South Carolina
59% Alabama, LSU, UTjr
61% Florida
69% Oklahoma, Georgia, Miss State
75% Missouri (and they've lost 2 of them)
Easiest schedule so far?
Texas A&M
An amazing 80% of their opponents are Quad 4. AND THEY LOST 2 OF THOSE GAMES!
To break the 3-way tie for toughest schedule I went the opposite route, how many Q1 and Q2 teams has each team played.
Auburn 56%
Vandy 50%
Ole Miss 44
However, Vandy has played 6 Q1 games, at least twice as many as any other SEC team.
[Several teams have played 0 Quad 1 opponents: Florida, Kentucky, A&M
and several others have only played 1 Quad 1 opponent: Tennessee, Texas, LSU, and Missouri
Still pretty close but it's pretty clear Vandy has played the toughest schedule by far, other than Auburn, which is close.
We play each other next weekend so we'll both still have the toughest schedule this time next weekend.
Your Quad is based on your RPI which, though just week 4, is settled in pretty well, but obviously not perfect yet.
{Utxas Rio Grande Valley is #1 so that won't last long, Xavier is #2 probably because they played UT and us twice and before that Oregon State twice and Stanford 4 times}
10 SEC schools are in the Top 27 RPI rank:
4. UT
8. Ole Miss
9. Vandy
10. Auburn
11. Arkansas
14. Alabama
15. Oklahoma
18. Georgia
21. Texas
26. Florida
27. South Carolina
[BTW, we play ALL of those other teams except Carolina. That's 9 of our 10 SEC series. I don't think there's any doubt that Vandy will, at the end of year, have played the toughest schedule of any SEC team.]
* RPI is updated instantly as games are completed so the numbers will change a little after Sunday's game, but probably not much given how weak the other SEC teams opponents are this weekend.
LSU lags at #102
A&M is #117 [that's what happens when you lose to to multiple Quad 4 teams along with a Quad 3 team]
Missouri is the worst [in all ways] at #242, having lost to four Quad 4 teams.
How did we get so lucky to be one of the few SEC teams that don't play Missouri this year? (the others are UK, USCjr, Auburn, and UTjr)
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