092: ACC baseball table
ACC baseball standings by location with run differentials through May 8 games.
The middle of May is usually a marker for casual college baseball fans to start paying attention. So, let’s give that a shot with surfacing the ACC baseball table.
League standings complete with each team’s RPI, overall record, and conference record by location with run differentials can be found below.
There are six ACC teams in the top-20 of the latest RPI. This is significant because five of those teams - Clemson, North Carolina, Florida State, Virginia, and Duke - project as a top-16 seed or a regional host for the NCAA Tournament.
The last two weekends of the regular season are paramount for those five teams to not only cement their status as a projected Regional host, but also to try to earn a top-8 seed to potentially gain home field advantage in a Super Regional.
The highly ranked team not projected to earn a host bid is Wake Forest. The Demon Deacons post a curious 12-12 overall record in league play paired with a RPI rating of 11th in the country.
A few other random observations as all teams are at least 80 percent done with the league play:
Five Coastal teams and three Atlantic teams have a positive run differential
Two Atlantic teams (Louisville, NC State) post a winning record paired with a negative run differential
Virginia is 9-6 on the road with a +44 run differential and 5-4 at home with -11 run differential
Notre Dame hasn’t won a game on the road, 0-12 away from South Bend with a -60 run differential
NC State and North Carolina own the best home records with wildly different run differentials. The Wolfpack are 10-2 at home with a +5 run differential and the Tar Heels are 11-1 at home with a +53 run differential
There are only a couple weekends left of the regular season before the ACC conference tournament in Charlotte from May 21-26.
Anecdotally, it feels like there a ton of runs and home runs in college baseball this season. The 10-run rule feels like it happens often in SEC and ACC play. Perhaps, that’s something to track in the future ahead of the NCAA Tournament next month.
I tried putting together more of a custom table style with GT tables in this go around. You can find the code here. The data is from baseballr, which scrapes stats.ncaa.org.
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