Big-12 Standings Going into Saturday

[daytonhorn]

0.643 Texas
0.619 Aggy
0.579 Sooner

Sooners lose to KU 5-4
Aggy loses non-conference game

 

[GAS_Horn]

Don't know how we can be ahead of aggy since we're 13-8-1 and they're 13-8.
We have to sweep Baylor and get to 15-8-1, 0.625, in order to be .006 ahead of them. At least I think that's the way winning percentage is figured. I know a tie really sucks for us.

 

[daytonhorn]

.619 Aggy
.614 Texas
.579 Sooner
I should not be doing arithmetic this late at night. I had divided by 21 games instead of 22 in the previous post. Now I get .614=13.5/22 (13 wins and one tie).

 

[GAS_Horn]

I'm wrong too then dayton because I was treating the tie like a loss! You're right; we should get .5 win and .5 loss for the tie. Therefore, if we split the next 2 against the bears, we would finish the weekend @ 14.5 - 9.5, or .604. But if we sweep Baylor, we're 15.5 - 8.5, or .646. Bottom line, we'll have to have half a win more than aggy, OU, and KU, and a FULL win more than KSU, to win the BIG XII. 17.5 - 9.5 might do it, but it sure would help if KSU loses the rain delay game to OSU, AND the 3rd game of that series. I think I should get some sleep!

 

[goosehorn]

Math is uncool, but we won so that is rad.

We are ruling with our RPI of #5. #5 is alive.

Nuff said.

 

[Orangeblood]

It'd be nice to win the conference, but I'd much prefer to go 4-2 (or 5-1) over our last 6 conference games to help solidify that top 8 seed.

 

[FungiHorn]

The tie doesn't factor into winning percentage at all as far as I understand it. So just pretend it doesn't exist.

 

[Root4UT]

The tie counts as both a win and a loss. Basically, you can just think of this as a tie being half a win and half a loss, putting our record at 13.5-8.5 and our winning percentage at .614.

If you like math or just want to calculate this, you calculate the winning percentage both as if it were a win and as if it were a loss, and then average the two. For us, that means a record of 14-8 (.636) and 13-9 (.591), which average out to a record of 13.5-8.5 and our winning percentage of .614.

 

[daytonhorn]

Fugi: If we went 1-0-8 in Big-12 football we would not win the conference with a 1.000 record. It would be like going 5-4-0. A tie is half a win and half a loss mathmatically, and cannot be ignored--unless one is a Creationist, then one can make up any thing they want, science and mathmatics be damned.

 

[Pericles]

Big 12 Baseball Standings and Percentages

 

[Austin Orange]

Some people on this thread just got math faced ^
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Ouch!

 

[blonthang]

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[Old Blevins]

You must admit, however, that there is considerable difference in the strength with which theories hold up to new data. The theory of Evolution holds up about as well as the theory of Gravity, while the theory of Creationism holds up about as well as the theory of The Flying Spaghetti Monster.

 

[Orangeblood]

Please take that discussion elsewhere and get back on topic.

 

[cochamps]

Back to the original point of the thread, UT wins today to go to 15-8-1, and KSU won the conclusion of games to go 12-7-1, with the third game being canceled.

 

[LITNIN HORN]

So...if KSU and we win out, they win the conference?

 

[UTeed]

Go Tech!!!!

 

[FWHORN]

K State controls own destiny but this has been a strange season and a lot can still happen.