After the Gonzaga series disaster, I thought I'd look at the
NCAA team stats to see where we'd sunk to, relative to the NCAA's 297 D1 baseball competitors.
But after the impressive mid-week wins vs. TCU and Columbia, I thought I'd wait before posting them, so I could note the hoped-for long-term improvement up from that 17-game low point.
Alas, after the LaTech & A&M disasters, we set new low points in most (but not all) metrics. Here are the figures and rankings after 17 (post-Gonzaga) and 23 games (post-A&M), which represent 31% and 42% of the season, respectively:
Improvements in rank:
Sac Flies - 9 (#31) // 13 (#12)
Walks/9 innings - 3.92 (#113) // 3.91 (#111)
Runs - 78 (#139) // 112 (#115)
K/Walk ratio - 2.13 (#125) // 2.12 (#120)
Declines in rank:
Batting average - .271 (#111) // .269 (#115)
WHIP - 1.36 (#104) // 1.46 (#140)
ERA - 4.29 (#115) // 4.86 (#152)
Hits allowed/9 innings - 8.51 (#110) // 9.27 (#153)
Sac bunts - 6 (#139) // 7 (#172)
Slugging % - .358 (#180) // .364 (#182)
Winning % - .412 (#184) // .391 (#205)
Fielding % - .965 (#180) // .961 (#217)
Two categories that I did not record after 17 games:
Homeruns/game - .57 (#166)
Doubles/game - .57 (#226)