Upcoming RPI Impact Games for Louisville Baseball

2026 Louisville Cardinals Impact Games

Impact Games are games that can move a team up or down the RPI Ladder (increase or decrease RPI Rank).

Direct Impact Games are head-to-head matchups for the team.

Indirect Impact Games are games that include a previous opponent of the team and impact the team's SOS component of RPI.

Late in the season, Indirect Impact Games may only have a small impact on a team's RPI Rank.

Normally, a win will increase a team's RPI Rank and a loss will decrease it, but sometimes when playing a really strong opponent a win or a loss will increase RPI Rank and when playing a much weaker opponent a win or a loss will decrease RPI Rank.

RPI Points are approximate.

RPI Ladder

RPI	Team	RPI Pts Needed
1	UCLA	1170
25	UCF	553
50	Louisiana	292
72	Tarleton State	128
73	Eastern Illinois	123
74	Dallas Baptist	110
75	Louisiana Tech	106
76	Connecticut	96
77	Notre Dame	94
78	Cal State Fullerton	65
79	Duke	65
80	Minnesota	64
81	Xavier	60
82	Creighton	51
83	South Alabama	50
84	Cal Poly	47
85	Southeastern Louisiana	47
86	UC San Diego	46
87	Utah	46
88	UNCW	45
89	East Tennessee State	23
90	Illinois	23
91	Louisville	-
92	Northern Illinois	-2
93	South Carolina	-10
94	Stanford	-10
95	Portland	-14
96	Lamar	-52
97	Indiana	-54
98	Little Rock	-56
99	Wofford	-60
100	Saint John's	-61
101	San Diego State	-62
102	Rice	-73
103	Samford	-73
104	Binghamton	-77
105	Charlotte	-77
106	Kennesaw State	-79
107	Houston	-80
108	South Carolina Upstate	-84
109	Appalachian State	-86
110	Hawaii	-91
125	Michigan State	-185
150	Northeastern	-295
175	William & Mary	-391
200	Middle Tennessee	-494
225	Marist	-665
250	Eastern Michigan	-833
275	Canisius	-961
300	Central Connecticut	-1450
301	Prairie View A&M	-1549

Direct Impact Games

	Final		R	H	E
		Indiana (20-25, 6-15 Big Ten)	10	11	1
		Louisville (26-19, 10-11 ACC)	6	10	3

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
IND	1	1	5	0	0	1	1	1	0	10	11	1
LOU	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	0	6	10	3

Live Win Probability

IND

50%

LOU

Louisville Wins:
Louisville Loses:

13 RPI Points
-49 RPI Points

Indirect (SOS) Impact Games

	Bottom 3rd 0-2 0 Outs		R	H	E
		California (22-20, 7-14 ACC)	3	4	0
		Saint Mary's College (25-18, 10-8 West Coast)	1	1	0

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
CAL	3	0	0							3	4	0
SMC	1	0								1	1	0

Live Win Probability

CAL

50%

SMC

California Wins:
California Loses:

3.7 RPI Points
-4.1 RPI Points

	Top 9th 2-1 2 Outs		R	H	E
		10 Coastal Carolina (30-13, 17-4 Sun Belt)	11	14	0
		2 North Carolina (36-8, 17-7 ACC)	2	6	2

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
COAS	1	0	0	0	0	2	6	0	2	11	14	0
UNC	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0		2	6	2

Live Win Probability

COAS

50%

UNC

North Carolina Wins:
North Carolina Loses:

1.3 RPI Points
-6.1 RPI Points

	Final		R	H	E
		Marshall (19-24, 10-11 Sun Belt)	6	9	1
		Morehead State (23-21, 8-10 Ohio Valley)	9	7	1

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
MRSH	0	0	2	2	0	0	1	0	1	6	9	1
MORE	0	0	7	0	0	2	0	0		9	7	1

Live Win Probability

MRSH

50%

Marshall Wins:
Marshall Loses:

2.8 RPI Points
-2.2 RPI Points

	Final		R	H	E
		Eastern Kentucky (10-34, 4-17 ASUN)	16	18	3
		Northern Kentucky (20-23, 9-9 Horizon League)	6	9	1

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
EKU	0	3	1	3	5	0	2	0	2	16	18	3
NKU	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	6	9	1

Live Win Probability

EKU

50%

NKU

Eastern Kentucky Wins:
Eastern Kentucky Loses:

3.8 RPI Points
-1.1 RPI Points