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After sweeping Rider in its midweek doubleheader, softball has the chance to take over the top spot in the South Division with two days of doubleheaders against Princeton.
After two wins during their midweek doubleheader against Saint Peter’s, softball prepares for a four game set against Cornell this weekend.
In baseball, wRAA (weighted Runs Above Average) measures the number of runs a player contributes to his team relative to a league average player. Spectator’s algorithm assigns a weight to each offensive event based on the number of runs that event is expected to produce. So, while hitting a single with no men on base does not score a run, that single will statistically return an expected fraction of a run. That value, and the expected point values of every offensive event, become weights in the wRAA formula into which player data are fed.
Softball will play its first home games this season with a doubleheader this Friday against Monmouth.
Softball suffered a doubleheader loss to North Florida on Tuesday while continuing its pre-Ivy season.
On a Friday evening in early February, Columbia men’s basketball traveled to Philadelphia and ended Penn’s losing streak. The Lions’ loss triggered their demise as measured by Spectator's Elo rating system, which relies on data from previous games to predict the strength and future success of Ancient Eight competitors.
Women’s squash sent its top four players to the CSA Individual National Championships this weekend, leaving New Hampshire with a champion and a finalist.
Softball will travel to Fairfax, Virginia this weekend for its second week on the road and a chance at redemption during the Patriot Classic.
The top four women’s squash players will travel to Dartmouth this weekend for the College Squash Association Individual Championships.
Softball began its 2017 season this past weekend in Florida, losing three of four games at the EMU Madeira Beach Invitational.