Hammer and Rails · Feb 18, 2016
Purdue Baseball Starts Season in Atlanta
Yep, it's baseball season!
After a couple of rough years under Doug Schreiber the baseball boilers start a new season tomorrow in Atlanta as part of the Atlanta Invitational. The boiler swill be playing true road games in all three, which is significant when it comes to computing the Baseball RPI for the NCAA Tournament. A true road game gets a 1.3 multiplier boost to help northern teams like Purdue that have to play away from home the first month of the season. Conversely, home games count as 0.7 in the RPI formula to help equal this out for teams like the Florida and California schools that rarely leave their home parks.