Upcoming RPI Impact Games for Rutgers Baseball

2026 Rutgers Scarlet Knights 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	1357
25	UCF	740
50	Louisiana	479
75	Louisiana Tech	293
100	Saint John's	126
107	Houston	107
108	South Carolina Upstate	103
109	Appalachian State	101
110	Hawaii	96
111	Saint Mary's College	92
112	Western Kentucky	81
113	Nicholls	78
114	Winthrop	72
115	UTRGV	69
116	Ohio State	67
117	FGCU	66
118	Morehead State	54
119	Georgia State	48
120	Northwestern State	31
121	Missouri	25
122	Nevada	21
123	Memphis	11
124	VCU	3
125	Michigan State	2
126	Rutgers	-
127	Maine	-2
128	Sacramento State	-2
129	UC Irvine	-7
130	Northwestern	-10
131	Jacksonville	-17
132	Texas Tech	-19
133	Tulane	-30
134	Old Dominion	-36
135	Central Arkansas	-40
136	Radford	-48
137	Indiana State	-54
138	Illinois State	-62
139	Hofstra	-67
140	Utah Tech	-67
141	Monmouth	-78
142	UTA	-80
143	Murray State	-93
144	Rider	-97
145	ULM	-98
150	Northeastern	-108
175	William & Mary	-204
200	Middle Tennessee	-307
225	Marist	-478
250	Eastern Michigan	-646
275	Canisius	-774
300	Central Connecticut	-1263
301	Prairie View A&M	-1362

Direct Impact Games

	Final		R	H	E
		Connecticut (26-20, 10-5 Big East)	5	7	1
		Rutgers (22-23, 9-12 Big Ten)	4	15	2

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
CONN	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	0	0	5	7	1
RUTG	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	4	15	2

Live Win Probability

CONN

50%

RUTG

Rutgers Wins:
Rutgers Loses:

30 RPI Points
-23 RPI Points

Indirect (SOS) Impact Games

	Final/7		R	H	E
		James Madison (18-25, 8-13 Sun Belt)	1	5	1
		Virginia Tech (23-20, 11-13 ACC)	14	16	0

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
JMU	0	0	1	0	0	0	0			1	5	1
VT	2	5	0	2	3	2	X			14	16	0

Live Win Probability

JMU

50%

Virginia Tech Wins:
Virginia Tech Loses:

3.5 RPI Points
-4.1 RPI Points

	Bottom 6th 1-0 0 Outs		R	H	E
		1 UCLA (39-4, 21-0 Big Ten)	13	12	0
		UC Santa Barbara (27-14, 13-8 Big West)	1	4	1

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
UCLA	5	1	0	0	6	1				13	12	0
UCSB	0	0	0	0	1	0				1	4	1

Live Win Probability

UCLA

50%

UCSB

UCLA Wins:
UCLA Loses:

0.7 RPI Points
-6.9 RPI Points

	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

Indiana Wins:
Indiana Loses:

4.0 RPI Points
-3.2 RPI Points