It was a total rainout yesterday for all my teams. The Braves game will be played as part of a double-header starting at 1235p on Monday. The Ball State game against Northern Illinois will not be rescheduled.
Let's say a team leads the league in ERA and in batting average. You would think that this team would be in first place. However, this team is the 2008 Atlanta Braves, and they are 18-17, four games behind Florida for the division lead. According to their runs scored versus their runs allowed, their record should be 22-13. Stat heads call the difference between those records the "luck factor". Currently, the Braves luck factor is -4, by far the worst in all of baseball. Over the last 5 years, the worst luck factor over an entire season has been -5 to -7. The Braves have almost hit that already and they are barely 25% into the season. I have a feeling that this "luck factor" will self correct sometime in July or August when the Braves traditionally put a winning streak together.
The Brownsburg baseball team has four conference games this week as they try to stay in the hunt for the HCC championship. The Dogs play Harrison on Monday and Tuesday and Zionsville on Friday and Saturday. Noblesville leads the conference with a 10-2 record. Brownsburg is one game behind and Lafayette Jeff is two games out of the lead. There are only six conference games left, so the Dogs will most likely have to win out and hope Noblesville loses one or two.
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