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Publication Date: July 25, 2000
Definitions and Causes
One of the more interesting analytical tools in baseball is one that is, to some extent, so obvious that we tend to ignore it, but truly understanding it can greatly increase one's understanding of the game itself, especially in the area of talent evaluation. Park factors are, quite simply, an acknowledgement that scoring runs (and, by extension, all of the components that go into scoring runs) is not equally difficult in all ballparks. Not all of the components are equally affected, of course -- some parks increase doubles at the expense of home runs, for example -- but it's usually possible to get a feel for how the park changes the perceptions of a team's performance by looking at how both the team and their opponents perform in both their home and road games.
There are actually two types of park factors. The first, the type I'm looking at here, is designed to measure the effect of the park on the raw statistics. The factors I discuss here, for example, are computed simply by dividing the average number of runs per game for both teams in home games by the average number of runs per game for both teams in road games. That gives a number which is a reasonable ratio of how much the park increases or decreases the number of runs scored.
The second type, which I don't have individual player data to look at, examines the effects of the park on a player's stats. That just means that the factor needs to be weighted to take into account that the player plays some percentage of his games at home and some percentage on the road. In the pros, where those percentage are each around half, that's easy; in college, it's harder because of unbalanced schedules.
There are quite a few characteristics that can figure into a park's effect, some of which are static and some of which can change from year to year. Park size and configuration, including the amount of foul territory and the height of the fences, tends to be fairly static, and the altitude is constant barring earthquakes and wholesale moves of the campus. Weather factors, including wind and humidity, can vary from year to year -- one year, for example, all of the West Coast major league parks showed up about 5% lower than usual due to early season weather problems. Jim Carr has written a neat little Java applet that will let you play with some of these factors and see what they do to the distance of a batted ball.
As I said earlier, understanding park factors can have a dramatic effect on talent evaluation. Teams which play in parks which tend to suppress offense tend to overestimate the quality of their pitching staff and underestimate their hitters, and vice versa for offense-heavy parks. This can cause unwarranted player moves at times and can also heavily affect the recruiting process as a team's needs are misidentified.
Bear in mind that the quality of a team, either offensively or defensively, generally has no effect on the park factor, since we're looking at runs scored by both teams. There are, of course, teams which take unusually good advantage of their parks through things like the ground ball/fly ball ratio for their pitching staff, for example, but in most cases there's no connection between team quality and park factor other than the player selection factors mentioned above.
Some Preliminary Data
Because of those changing factors that I mentioned above, finding the right amount of data to consider when calculating park factors is a delicate matter. More than three years can be problematic because of weather shifts and stadium changes, but one year can be too short to get an accurate reading. Of course, these matters are greatly aggravated, as always, by the short college season and the huge number of teams involved. Ideally, I think I'd like to have at least four years of conference play (in college, it's necessary to have an even number of years, as we discussed last week), but I don't have that much data yet. Even that would be leave the numbers a bit suspect, because we're only talking about fifteen or so home and road games each year.
I've taken the same data set, more or less, that I used to examine home field advantage last week -- the set of all conference games from the 1999 and 2000 season. Because I wanted to include the former WAC teams in this because they were likely to have some interesting park factors due to geography, I included all WAC games from 1998 and 1999. The results are interesting, although the small sample size tends to require a bit of common sense in viewing the results.
Here are the twenty teams whose home parks increase scoring the most:
Home Road
Team Rank PF R G Avg R G Avg
Fairleigh Dickinson 1 1.857 301 20 15.05 154 19 8.11
Southern Mississippi 2 1.528 382 26 14.69 250 26 9.62
Loyola Marymount 3 1.525 543 33 16.45 313 29 10.79
Hofstra 4 1.519 378 28 13.50 231 26 8.88
New Mexico State 5 1.516 664 30 22.13 438 30 14.60
Hawaii-Hilo 6 1.500 39 2 19.50 65 5 13.00
North Carolina-Asheville 7 1.479 278 21 13.24 188 21 8.95
Illinois 8 1.428 312 23 13.57 304 32 9.50
Notre Dame 9 1.408 373 25 14.92 265 25 10.60
Iona 10 1.402 340 25 13.60 262 27 9.70
North Carolina A&T 11 1.396 389 24 16.21 209 18 11.61
Morehead State 12 1.389 368 24 15.33 265 24 11.04
Michigan State 13 1.388 256 18 14.22 287 28 10.25
Fresno State 14 1.386 183 12 15.25 154 14 11.00
Oakland 15 1.371 267 20 13.35 263 27 9.74
Ball State 16 1.370 427 30 14.23 291 28 10.39
Texas Tech 17 1.351 405 27 15.00 322 29 11.10
Auburn 18 1.330 508 30 16.93 382 30 12.73
New Mexico 19 1.327 261 12 21.75 213 13 16.38
Brigham Young 20 1.320 399 15 26.60 262 13 20.15
Here are the twenty teams whose home parks decrease scoring the most:
Home Road
Team Rank PF R G Avg R G Avg
Utah 252 0.757 190 13 14.62 309 16 19.31
Southeast Missouri State 253 0.756 300 29 10.34 342 25 13.68
Rider 254 0.752 217 29 7.48 209 21 9.95
St. Francis 255 0.749 138 15 9.20 258 21 12.29
Connecticut 256 0.738 273 23 11.87 418 26 16.08
Kent 257 0.736 269 29 9.28 378 30 12.60
Siena 258 0.736 256 26 9.85 321 24 13.38
Eastern Kentucky 259 0.721 241 24 10.04 348 25 13.92
Elon 260 0.719 214 22 9.73 257 19 13.53
Tulane 261 0.718 309 26 11.88 447 27 16.56
Houston 262 0.712 276 27 10.22 359 25 14.36
Furman 263 0.709 358 29 12.34 522 30 17.40
Pepperdine 264 0.690 295 30 9.83 456 32 14.25
Winthrop 265 0.680 174 20 8.70 256 20 12.80
Portland 266 0.671 284 31 9.16 437 32 13.66
Wright State 267 0.666 226 21 10.76 323 20 16.15
Long Island 268 0.614 161 19 8.47 276 20 13.80
Norfolk State 269 0.593 294 29 10.14 513 30 17.10
San Diego State 270 0.523 115 10 11.50 198 9 22.00
There are a couple of thoughts that come from this. One is that major conference teams are a bit scarce on these two lists. That's probably because the bigger conferences tend to have better facilities, and those tend to be more homogenous. There are also relatively few really good teams on either list, but that may just be an echo of the lack of major conference teams.
The other fact is that the last place team (or first place, depending on how much you like pitching duels) illustrates an important fact about park factors -- they can only exist in context. In this case, because we're, of necessity, only looking at conference games due to the requirement for at least a loose symmetry, each park is measured relative to the other parks in the conference. From what I remember of Tony Gwynn Stadium, it's a fairly normal size and shape stadium, and San Diego has relentlessly normal weather. However, because it was measured in the context of all the other WAC ballparks, several of which were half a mile or more above sea level, many fewer runs were scored in SDSU home games than in road games.
Before I close with the full list, I want to point out an example to show why these numbers should be taken as a guide and not as gospel due to the small sample size. Mississippi State shows up here with a park factor of 0.875. That's not unreasonable; it's a reasonably large park by SEC standards, with a ton of foul territory, but it does seem a bit extreme to those of us who know the park. It turns out that MSU played a whopper of a series at LSU this year, with the two teams totalling 72 runs over the course of the three games. If you remove those three games from the calculation, the park factor for MSU rises to 0.963, much more in line with what I would expect. This doesn't invalidate the whole work, I don't think -- most teams didn't have one weekend that was that extreme, and there's no reason to think the teams would have scored 72 runs in Starkville -- but it does indicate that there's a relatively large margin of error at work here.
Here's the full list:
Home Road
Team Rank PF R G Avg R G Avg
Air Force 114 1.043 257 13 19.77 398 21 18.95
Akron 236 0.815 343 33 10.39 370 29 12.76
Alabama 42 1.207 501 30 16.70 415 30 13.83
Alabama A&M 70 1.126 441 29 15.21 351 26 13.50
Alabama State 71 1.121 468 28 16.71 328 22 14.91
Alabama-Birmingham 61 1.145 372 25 14.88 351 27 13.00
Alcorn State 75 1.110 461 29 15.90 487 34 14.32
Appalachian State 97 1.078 495 29 17.07 459 29 15.83
Arizona 35 1.234 466 26 17.92 392 27 14.52
Arizona State 49 1.178 522 27 19.33 443 27 16.41
Arkansas 174 0.938 442 30 14.73 440 28 15.71
Arkansas State 229 0.827 318 31 10.26 372 30 12.40
Arkansas-Little Rock 94 1.080 418 33 12.67 340 29 11.72
Arkansas-Pine Bluff 156 0.968 589 45 13.09 568 42 13.52
Army 119 1.036 206 18 11.44 243 22 11.05
Auburn 18 1.330 508 30 16.93 382 30 12.73
Austin Peay State 68 1.130 331 24 13.79 293 24 12.21
Ball State 16 1.370 427 30 14.23 291 28 10.39
Baylor 243 0.780 325 30 10.83 375 27 13.89
Bethune-Cookman 83 1.098 454 30 15.13 248 18 13.78
Boston College 244 0.778 262 22 11.91 398 26 15.31
Bowling Green State 128 1.013 299 27 11.07 328 30 10.93
Bradley 59 1.151 450 32 14.06 391 32 12.22
Brigham Young 20 1.320 399 15 26.60 262 13 20.15
Brown 28 1.263 259 20 12.95 205 20 10.25
Bucknell 239 0.799 223 20 11.15 279 20 13.95
Butler 84 1.097 234 18 13.00 237 20 11.85
Cal Poly 216 0.855 349 30 11.63 408 30 13.60
Cal State Fullerton 218 0.851 382 30 12.73 434 29 14.97
Cal State Sacramento 198 0.883 377 30 12.57 427 30 14.23
Cal-Santa Barbara 58 1.151 479 30 15.97 416 30 13.87
California 245 0.777 374 30 12.47 465 29 16.03
Campbell 196 0.886 281 27 10.41 317 27 11.74
Canisius 92 1.084 239 26 9.19 229 27 8.48
Central Connecticut State 145 0.981 246 21 11.71 191 16 11.94
Central Florida 52 1.167 370 27 13.70 317 27 11.74
Central Michigan 151 0.976 280 26 10.77 331 30 11.03
Charleston Southern 228 0.830 179 20 8.95 205 19 10.79
Chicago State 215 0.859 310 28 11.07 245 19 12.89
Cincinnati 181 0.921 375 27 13.89 407 27 15.07
Clemson 163 0.955 316 24 13.17 317 23 13.78
Cleveland State 32 1.254 291 20 14.55 232 20 11.60
Coastal Carolina 146 0.980 210 18 11.67 238 20 11.90
College of Charleston 109 1.050 406 29 14.00 400 30 13.33
Columbia 40 1.219 306 20 15.30 251 20 12.55
Connecticut 256 0.738 273 23 11.87 418 26 16.08
Coppin State 26 1.282 363 19 19.11 298 20 14.90
Cornell 172 0.939 215 20 10.75 229 20 11.45
Creighton 148 0.979 385 31 12.42 406 32 12.69
Dartmouth 60 1.149 209 20 10.45 200 22 9.09
Davidson 210 0.867 425 33 12.88 401 27 14.85
Dayton 152 0.976 281 21 13.38 288 21 13.71
Delaware 211 0.866 291 26 11.19 336 26 12.92
Delaware State 104 1.056 415 24 17.29 311 19 16.37
Detroit Mercy 150 0.978 201 17 11.82 254 21 12.10
Drexel 27 1.267 352 28 12.57 258 26 9.92
Duke 110 1.049 341 24 14.21 298 22 13.55
Duquesne 248 0.769 236 21 11.24 307 21 14.62
East Carolina 93 1.081 285 21 13.57 251 20 12.55
East Tennessee State 143 0.989 447 30 14.90 452 30 15.07
Eastern Illinois 74 1.111 311 23 13.52 292 24 12.17
Eastern Kentucky 259 0.721 241 24 10.04 348 25 13.92
Eastern Michigan 153 0.972 343 31 11.06 330 29 11.38
Elon 260 0.719 214 22 9.73 257 19 13.53
Evansville 122 1.028 357 31 11.52 336 30 11.20
Fairfield 136 1.000 265 24 11.04 298 27 11.04
Fairleigh Dickinson 1 1.857 301 20 15.05 154 19 8.11
Florida 134 1.002 423 30 14.10 408 29 14.07
Florida A&M 188 0.904 243 17 14.29 332 21 15.81
Florida Atlantic 214 0.860 346 30 11.53 322 24 13.42
Florida International 127 1.016 342 29 11.79 360 31 11.61
Florida State 178 0.929 263 24 10.96 283 24 11.79
Fordham 123 1.027 228 21 10.86 222 21 10.57
Fresno State 14 1.386 183 12 15.25 154 14 11.00
Furman 263 0.709 358 29 12.34 522 30 17.40
George Mason 217 0.852 276 21 13.14 324 21 15.43
George Washington 130 1.007 275 21 13.10 273 21 13.00
Georgetown 43 1.198 364 26 14.00 257 22 11.68
Georgia 165 0.949 364 27 13.48 426 30 14.20
Georgia Southern 168 0.942 426 30 14.20 407 27 15.07
Georgia State 23 1.302 371 27 13.74 285 27 10.56
Georgia Tech 113 1.045 323 24 13.46 309 24 12.88
Gonzaga 38 1.223 416 26 16.00 458 35 13.09
Grambling State 144 0.987 517 34 15.21 539 35 15.40
Hartford 197 0.886 220 25 8.80 278 28 9.93
Harvard 226 0.834 232 23 10.09 242 20 12.10
Hawaii 250 0.767 252 22 11.45 254 17 14.94
Hawaii-Hilo 6 1.500 39 2 19.50 65 5 13.00
High Point 66 1.132 260 19 13.68 266 22 12.09
Hofstra 4 1.519 378 28 13.50 231 26 8.88
Holy Cross 120 1.036 233 20 11.65 225 20 11.25
Houston 262 0.712 276 27 10.22 359 25 14.36
Howard 204 0.880 221 15 14.73 385 23 16.74
IUPUI 53 1.166 292 20 14.60 338 27 12.52
Illinois 8 1.428 312 23 13.57 304 32 9.50
Illinois State 73 1.114 436 31 14.06 404 32 12.62
Illinois-Chicago 77 1.107 246 21 11.71 201 19 10.58
Indiana 65 1.138 260 22 11.82 353 34 10.38
Indiana State 241 0.792 367 32 11.47 478 33 14.48
Iona 10 1.402 340 25 13.60 262 27 9.70
Iowa 132 1.006 315 28 11.25 313 28 11.18
Iowa State 131 1.007 302 24 12.58 450 36 12.50
Jackson State 184 0.919 557 43 12.95 479 34 14.09
Jacksonville 219 0.850 313 28 11.18 355 27 13.15
Jacksonville State 100 1.067 349 27 12.93 327 27 12.11
James Madison 91 1.084 322 21 15.33 297 21 14.14
Kansas 149 0.978 456 35 13.03 373 28 13.32
Kansas State 105 1.055 364 25 14.56 414 30 13.80
Kent 257 0.736 269 29 9.28 378 30 12.60
Kentucky 103 1.057 365 28 13.04 370 30 12.33
LaSalle 51 1.173 394 24 16.42 322 23 14.00
Lafayette 78 1.106 263 20 13.15 214 18 11.89
Lamar 240 0.796 273 30 9.10 320 28 11.43
LeMoyne 233 0.818 199 23 8.65 275 26 10.58
Lehigh 102 1.062 206 20 10.30 194 20 9.70
Liberty 96 1.079 251 19 13.21 257 21 12.24
Long Beach State 249 0.768 317 30 10.57 413 30 13.77
Long Island 268 0.614 161 19 8.47 276 20 13.80
Louisiana State 95 1.080 443 30 14.77 383 28 13.68
Louisiana Tech 55 1.162 365 27 13.52 384 33 11.64
Louisiana-Lafayette 203 0.881 350 33 10.61 361 30 12.03
Louisiana-Monroe 62 1.144 425 34 12.50 295 27 10.93
Louisville 137 1.000 374 27 13.85 360 26 13.85
Loyola Marymount 3 1.525 543 33 16.45 313 29 10.79
Maine 183 0.920 323 28 11.54 301 24 12.54
Manhattan 237 0.813 295 26 11.35 363 26 13.96
Marist 80 1.101 333 28 11.89 270 25 10.80
Marshall 37 1.225 350 28 12.50 296 29 10.21
Maryland 194 0.890 296 23 12.87 347 24 14.46
Maryland-Baltimore County 22 1.311 202 15 13.47 226 22 10.27
Maryland-Eastern Shore 47 1.185 372 20 18.60 455 29 15.69
Massachusetts 64 1.139 214 21 10.19 179 20 8.95
McNeese State 125 1.021 383 30 12.77 375 30 12.50
Memphis 56 1.159 349 27 12.93 290 26 11.15
Mercer 107 1.053 339 27 12.56 322 27 11.93
Miami, Ohio 190 0.897 368 33 11.15 348 28 12.43
Michigan 246 0.774 278 28 9.93 359 28 12.82
Michigan State 13 1.388 256 18 14.22 287 28 10.25
Middle Tennessee State 189 0.899 241 23 10.48 303 26 11.65
Minnesota 166 0.947 396 35 11.31 239 20 11.95
Mississippi 212 0.862 329 29 11.34 395 30 13.17
Mississippi State 207 0.875 343 28 12.25 392 28 14.00
Mississippi Valley State 202 0.881 300 22 13.64 526 34 15.47
Missouri 224 0.837 328 28 11.71 364 26 14.00
Monmouth 185 0.919 230 19 12.11 237 18 13.17
Morehead State 12 1.389 368 24 15.33 265 24 11.04
Mount St. Mary's 155 0.969 256 20 12.80 251 19 13.21
Murray State 118 1.038 272 24 11.33 284 26 10.92
Navy 133 1.004 255 22 11.59 231 20 11.55
Nebraska 72 1.117 407 27 15.07 378 28 13.50
Nevada 126 1.019 475 30 15.83 466 30 15.53
Nevada-Las Vegas 179 0.927 343 18 19.06 185 9 20.56
New Mexico 19 1.327 261 12 21.75 213 13 16.38
New Mexico State 5 1.516 664 30 22.13 438 30 14.60
New Orleans 159 0.965 396 30 13.20 465 34 13.68
Niagara 44 1.198 357 25 14.28 310 26 11.92
Nicholls State 76 1.108 307 29 10.59 277 29 9.55
Norfolk State 269 0.593 294 29 10.14 513 30 17.10
North Carolina 201 0.882 285 24 11.88 323 24 13.46
North Carolina A&T 11 1.396 389 24 16.21 209 18 11.61
North Carolina State 67 1.130 330 24 13.75 292 24 12.17
North Carolina-Asheville 7 1.479 278 21 13.24 188 21 8.95
North Carolina-Charlotte 106 1.055 321 26 12.35 316 27 11.70
North Carolina-Greensboro 191 0.894 361 29 12.45 390 28 13.93
North Carolina-Wilmington 223 0.842 230 21 10.95 273 21 13.00
Northeastern 238 0.810 231 26 8.88 307 28 10.96
Northern Illinois 99 1.068 316 29 10.90 306 30 10.20
Northern Iowa 213 0.860 409 32 12.78 431 29 14.86
Northwestern 200 0.882 314 32 9.81 278 25 11.12
Northwestern State 86 1.096 328 29 11.31 320 31 10.32
Notre Dame 9 1.408 373 25 14.92 265 25 10.60
Oakland 15 1.371 267 20 13.35 263 27 9.74
Ohio 48 1.181 450 34 13.24 325 29 11.21
Ohio State 247 0.770 265 28 9.46 295 24 12.29
Oklahoma 41 1.212 400 27 14.81 330 27 12.22
Oklahoma State 205 0.878 342 27 12.67 303 21 14.43
Old Dominion 88 1.090 272 19 14.32 289 22 13.14
Oral Roberts 221 0.845 390 32 12.19 303 21 14.43
Oregon State 169 0.941 443 29 15.28 422 26 16.23
Pacific 182 0.920 329 29 11.34 370 30 12.33
Penn State 173 0.938 316 28 11.29 325 27 12.04
Pennsylvania 225 0.835 212 20 10.60 254 20 12.70
Pepperdine 264 0.690 295 30 9.83 456 32 14.25
Pittsburgh 111 1.047 316 24 13.17 327 26 12.58
Portland 266 0.671 284 31 9.16 437 32 13.66
Prairie View A&M 33 1.247 491 30 16.37 420 32 13.12
Princeton 142 0.990 230 22 10.45 243 23 10.57
Providence 36 1.232 218 13 16.77 177 13 13.62
Purdue 139 0.995 318 30 10.60 277 26 10.65
Quinnipiac 112 1.047 271 20 13.55 246 19 12.95
Radford 25 1.284 304 21 14.48 203 18 11.28
Rhode Island 124 1.024 259 21 12.33 253 21 12.05
Rice 87 1.095 146 12 12.17 100 9 11.11
Richmond 21 1.313 312 21 14.86 249 22 11.32
Rider 254 0.752 217 29 7.48 209 21 9.95
Rutgers 177 0.932 356 26 13.69 338 23 14.70
Sam Houston State 101 1.067 306 27 11.33 308 29 10.62
Samford 171 0.941 349 27 12.93 371 27 13.74
San Diego 235 0.817 359 30 11.97 425 29 14.66
San Diego State 270 0.523 115 10 11.50 198 9 22.00
San Francisco 46 1.186 524 33 15.88 348 26 13.38
San Jose State 162 0.956 153 12 12.75 160 12 13.33
Santa Clara 161 0.957 402 30 13.40 420 30 14.00
Seton Hall 208 0.874 309 27 11.44 262 20 13.10
Siena 258 0.736 256 26 9.85 321 24 13.38
South Alabama 45 1.190 388 32 12.12 326 32 10.19
South Carolina 232 0.818 356 30 11.87 435 30 14.50
South Florida 85 1.096 433 27 16.04 395 27 14.63
Southeast Missouri State 253 0.756 300 29 10.34 342 25 13.68
Southeastern Louisiana 79 1.104 327 27 12.11 318 29 10.97
Southern 234 0.818 390 32 12.19 477 32 14.91
Southern California 186 0.909 390 30 13.00 429 30 14.30
Southern Illinois 116 1.042 373 31 12.03 381 33 11.55
Southern Mississippi 2 1.528 382 26 14.69 250 26 9.62
Southern Utah 115 1.043 164 11 14.91 243 17 14.29
Southwest Missouri State 90 1.086 449 30 14.97 441 32 13.78
Southwest Texas State 147 0.980 321 27 11.89 364 30 12.13
St. Bonaventure 29 1.261 261 21 12.43 207 21 9.86
St. Francis 255 0.749 138 15 9.20 258 21 12.29
St. John's 57 1.154 138 10 13.80 299 25 11.96
St. Joseph's 193 0.891 253 22 11.50 297 23 12.91
St. Louis 160 0.961 390 27 14.44 406 27 15.04
St. Mary's 81 1.101 372 30 12.40 338 30 11.27
St. Peter's 30 1.260 335 24 13.96 299 27 11.07
Stanford 158 0.967 412 30 13.73 426 30 14.20
Stetson 220 0.847 339 27 12.56 415 28 14.82
Temple 176 0.938 230 21 10.95 257 22 11.68
Tennessee 231 0.824 393 30 13.10 445 28 15.89
Tennessee Tech 31 1.254 322 24 13.42 246 23 10.70
Tennessee-Martin 195 0.890 300 28 10.71 313 26 12.04
Texas 192 0.892 356 30 11.87 386 29 13.31
Texas A&M 140 0.994 362 30 12.07 352 29 12.14
Texas Christian 135 1.002 121 9 13.44 161 12 13.42
Texas Southern 164 0.953 500 36 13.89 539 37 14.57
Texas Tech 17 1.351 405 27 15.00 322 29 11.10
Texas-Arlington 227 0.831 299 28 10.68 347 27 12.85
Texas-San Antonio 187 0.905 308 27 11.41 353 28 12.61
The Citadel 199 0.883 438 33 13.27 451 30 15.03
Toledo 230 0.826 276 30 9.20 390 35 11.14
Towson State 117 1.041 341 28 12.18 269 23 11.70
Troy State 54 1.163 346 24 14.42 372 30 12.40
Tulane 261 0.718 309 26 11.88 447 27 16.56
UCLA 170 0.941 436 30 14.53 417 27 15.44
Utah 252 0.757 190 13 14.62 309 16 19.31
Valparaiso 251 0.761 267 27 9.89 325 25 13.00
Vanderbilt 82 1.099 408 29 14.07 384 30 12.80
Vermont 242 0.788 201 20 10.05 357 28 12.75
Villanova 141 0.994 301 26 11.58 233 20 11.65
Virginia 108 1.050 307 23 13.35 305 24 12.71
Virginia Commonwealth 206 0.876 261 23 11.35 285 22 12.95
Virginia Military 24 1.299 490 27 18.15 461 33 13.97
Virginia Tech 180 0.922 224 21 10.67 243 21 11.57
Wagner 209 0.873 296 22 13.45 262 17 15.41
Wake Forest 89 1.087 328 23 14.26 315 24 13.12
Washington 175 0.938 436 29 15.03 449 28 16.04
Washington State 50 1.176 453 26 17.42 489 33 14.82
West Virginia 63 1.140 238 24 9.92 174 20 8.70
Western Carolina 39 1.221 420 26 16.15 397 30 13.23
Western Illinois 121 1.029 357 27 13.22 257 20 12.85
Western Kentucky 157 0.968 338 33 10.24 307 29 10.59
Western Michigan 138 1.000 279 30 9.30 307 33 9.30
Wichita State 129 1.012 437 35 12.49 395 32 12.34
William and Mary 167 0.945 266 22 12.09 256 20 12.80
Winthrop 265 0.680 174 20 8.70 256 20 12.80
Wisconsin-Milwaukee 98 1.069 239 20 11.95 190 17 11.18
Wofford 34 1.238 450 29 15.52 376 30 12.53
Wright State 267 0.666 226 21 10.76 323 20 16.15
Xavier 154 0.972 246 21 11.71 253 21 12.05
Yale 222 0.844 211 20 10.55 250 20 12.50
Youngstown State 69 1.129 257 20 12.85 330 29 11.38
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