(03-08-2014 11:19 PM)RiceDad Wrote:  With these bats we will be lucky to make it out of the regionals, which we may be barely lucky to make. Four runs in 27 innings is pretty tough, if you want to win much. Puke and boredom!

To clarify, when I say"these bats" I mean those using them.

Looks like quite a Saturday. Thanks for hosting!!!

(03-09-2014 09:10 AM)GO_MONARKS Wrote:  Looks like quite a Saturday. Thanks for hosting!!!

You're welcome, and thanks for stopping by. It was quite a Saturday - 27 innings and almost 8 hours of baseball. ODU has a good, solid ball club based on this weekend. Good luck for the rest of the season (at least until the conference tournament).

(03-09-2014 12:47 PM)AnotherOldOwl Wrote:  

(03-09-2014 09:10 AM)GO_MONARKS Wrote:  Looks like quite a Saturday. Thanks for hosting!!!

You're welcome, and thanks for stopping by. It was quite a Saturday - 27 innings and almost 8 hours of baseball. ODU has a good, solid ball club based on this weekend. Good luck for the rest of the season (at least until the conference tournament).

Thanks....where is the tourny?

(03-09-2014 01:30 PM)GO_MONARKS Wrote:  

(03-09-2014 12:47 PM)AnotherOldOwl Wrote:  

(03-09-2014 09:10 AM)GO_MONARKS Wrote:  Looks like quite a Saturday. Thanks for hosting!!!

You're welcome, and thanks for stopping by. It was quite a Saturday - 27 innings and almost 8 hours of baseball. ODU has a good, solid ball club based on this weekend. Good luck for the rest of the season (at least until the conference tournament).

Thanks....where is the tourny?

At Southern Miss in Hattiesburg, MS.

I know that the bats are not the reason that we are not hitting better. I know that both teams have to use the same kind of bats. It just feels like they lower the elite teams down to the level of the rest.

It's awesome to be a conference with Rice. I'm glad the Monarchs pulled this one out!

Is it just Rice or is it college baseball? Game after game with only a few runs and almost no home runs is boring, boring, boring.

Isn't Reckling on the large size for college yards? Wind conditions, low elevation, and high humidity would seem to already make it one of the hardest places to hit the ball hard.

(03-10-2014 09:23 AM)That Guy 2012 Wrote:  Isn't Reckling on the large size for college yards? Wind conditions, low elevation, and high humidity would seem to already make it one of the hardest places to hit the ball hard.

I've previously read that high humidity results in the opposite effect than that. Here's one example: http://www.exploratorium.edu/sports/ask_...ugust.html

(Obviously, 100%+ humidity -- i.e. liquid water in the air either in precipitation or fog -- is a different story).

(03-10-2014 09:23 AM)That Guy 2012 Wrote:  Isn't Reckling on the large size for college yards? Wind conditions, low elevation, and high humidity would seem to already make it one of the hardest places to hit the ball hard.

I think someone has quantified this (Boyd maybe?), and Reckling had a small pro-pitcher effect. Probably because of the size/winds.

(03-10-2014 12:52 PM)At Ease Wrote:  

(03-10-2014 09:23 AM)That Guy 2012 Wrote:  Isn't Reckling on the large size for college yards? Wind conditions, low elevation, and high humidity would seem to already make it one of the hardest places to hit the ball hard.

I think someone has quantified this (Boyd maybe?), and Reckling had a small pro-pitcher effect. Probably because of the size/winds.

You're correct on Boyd. And it's a very, very small factor: 97 for 2008-2011 (basically runs scored at home / runs scored away) and no factor (100) in 2009-2012. From 1999-2002, it was worse: 90.

Here's his explanation of his approach to arrive at the numbers: http://www.boydsworld.com/breadcrumbs/realpf.html

Here's the 1999-2002 data: http://www.boydsworld.com/breadcrumbs/pf2002.html