[Lax] PWR for lacrosse?

[jtwcornell91]

I updated the lacrosse PWR tables (thanks to Matt for the score conversion script!).  Hopkins and UVa pass us by virtue of improved records vs TUC and by Colgate dropping below .500.

http://slack.net/~whelan/lax/

[jtwcornell91]

[EDIT: I was missing two ACC tourney games when I ran the numbers for this message.  See revised ranking in my reply to this post]

With Georgetown's loss to UMass, everyone's Bradley-Terry rating can be expressed on the same scale except for the eight teams at the bottom, who can be considered to have a KRACH of 0 and ignored.  This also means that the three-way tie among Syracuse, Hopkins and UVa is resolved, since their other games enter the mix.  Cornell drops from #2 to #4 in the Bradley-Terry http://slack.net/~whelan/lax/krach.shtml (and also the KPWR) with yesterday's events:

1. Johns Hopkins
2. Virginia
3. Syracuse
4. Cornell
5. Georgetown
6. Princeton
7. Maryland
8. North Carolina
9. UMass
10. Loyola

Cornell is 6th in the RPI and PWR; all the hockey rankings  for lacrosse are summarized at http://slack.net/~whelan/lax/

[Al DeFlorio]

It would be hard to argue with the top six teams in John's ranking above, IMHO.

[jtwcornell91]

Correction:

I was missing the two ACC tournament games; Duke's win over Maryland and UVa's win over UNC change the BT top ten as follows:

 1. Virginia
 2. Johns Hopkins
 3. Syracuse
 4. Georgetown
 5. Cornell
 6. Princeton
 7. Loyola
 8. UMass
 9. Yale
10. North Carolina

Updated ratings are at http://slack.net/~whelan/lax/

[Al DeFlorio]

But the same top six, in different order.  

How Maryland continues to be ranked in the top six in polls and in the LaxPower computer rankings is a great mystery to me.  Hofstra seems to be overranked, too, IMHO.

[jtwcornell91]

Since the lack of context seemed to be confusing people outside the eLF who'd come across the link (the preview of the Brown game quoted my RPI without noting (or perhaps realizing) that it used a different weighting than the one the NCAA presumably uses for lacrosse), I clarified some of the patter at http://slack.net/~whelan/lax/ and also distinguished "Hockey RPI" from "NCAA RPI".

The good news is that even after the Brown game, we're still #6 in the RPI, PWR and KRACH.  The bad news is that in the non-hockey-weighted RPI, we're #7.  The good news is that this is because of a flip-flop with Princeton, who will hopefully get the Ivy AQ anyway.  I'll let those more in the know analyze this RPI along with the more nebulous criteria described in the lacrosse championships handbook.

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[Q]Age Manocchia '98 Wrote:

 Not that I could find. I thought about switching over the stats at the top, but I couldn't find anything that would work or had even been updated for yesterday's game yet.

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