2023 FanLax Forum Poll

[Notgoodatlax]

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[Notgoodatlax]

Williams at 13th is the most contentious selection this week with BallHunt ranking them 8th and HomeCoach ranking them 22nd as the bookends.

Bull and bear case on Williams?

Best Wins: Bowdoin, Amherst, Wesleyan
Top 5 Losses: Tufts, CNU
Other Losses: Union, Connecticut College, Hamilton

[BallHunt]

Williams at 13th is the most contentious selection this week with BallHunt ranking them 8th and HomeCoach ranking them 22nd as the bookends.

Bull and bear case on Williams?

Best Wins: Bowdoin, Amherst, Wesleyan
Top 5 Losses: Tufts, CNU
Other Losses: Union, Connecticut College, Hamilton

Yeah, the 6 to 15 range is very difficult to assess. I look at "Who have you beaten?" to help with the order there. It looks like a top tier 1 thru 5, then a large group of good teams to around 15, then it's really difficult from there.

[Unknown Participant]

Williams at 13th is the most contentious selection this week with BallHunt ranking them 8th and HomeCoach ranking them 22nd as the bookends.

Bull and bear case on Williams?

Best Wins: Bowdoin, Amherst, Wesleyan
Top 5 Losses: Tufts, CNU
Other Losses: Union, Connecticut College, Hamilton

Yeah, the 6 to 15 range is very difficult to assess. I look at "Who have you beaten?" to help with the order there. It looks like a top tier 1 thru 5, then a large group of good teams to around 15, then it's really difficult from there.

I think Williams is legit. In hindsight, I probably should have had them higher in my poll this week. Played Tufts really tight on the road. I believe finish as the 3 seed in Nescac putting them as a top ten team.

[Matnum PI]

Reminder: FanLax Forum Polls are due on Monday (Tomorrow) at noon EST. Enjoy this weekend's games. Forum Poll Link (with Submission Links towards the bottom of the page). All are welcome to submit a ranking.

As a heads-up, I won't be posting the Forum Polls until Monday evening.

[smoova]

Polls?

[Laxattackjack]

https://fanlax.com/2023/05/01/d3-men-fa ... -05-01-23/

[Matnum PI]

Sorry. Thought I posted it.

[Notgoodatlax]

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[Notgoodatlax]

Hacker your 'doubter status on Amherst is an error due to your double vote (10th && 13th) and my poor error handling

[Matnum PI]

Hacker your 'doubter status on Amherst is an error due to your double vote (10th && 13th) and my poor error handling

FWIW, I removed the second Amherst and it didn't change the rankings.

[Hacker]

Thanks for correcting. For some reason I get easily confused.

[Matnum PI]

Reminder: FanLax Forum Polls are due on Monday (Today) at noon EST. Enjoy this weekend's games. Forum Poll Link (with Submission Links towards the bottom of the page). All are welcome to submit a ranking.

[Matnum PI]

[Matnum PI]

Assuming you all agree, I think we should wait for the Tournament to be over before we do our next Forum Poll, the final FanLax Forum Poll of 2023...

[Laxattackjack]

Assuming you all agree, I think we should wait for the Tournament to be over before we do our next Forum Poll, the final FanLax Forum Poll of 2023...

Makes sense. After this weekend, there were not many surprises and shouldn’t be much movement.

Maybe swarthmore was over hyped. Maybe middlebury and union didn’t appear as strong as we thought?

A few of the teams still alive like W&L and Lynchburg didn’t really get a test yet, but thought they both would have won by much bigger margins.

Too early for a new poll

[Matnum PI]

...Too early for a new poll...

The only upsets thus far, at least on paper, were Grove City, Lynchburg, and Dickinson. And some of these upsets are barely upsets.

[SKUD]

...Too early for a new poll...

The only upsets thus far, at least on paper, were Grove City, Lynchburg, and Dickinson. And some of these upsets are barely upsets.

In addition #11 lost to #16 in the fan lax rankings

[Matnum PI]

In addition #11 lost to #16 in the fan lax rankings

#11 is Stevens who lost to #14 Dickinson. http://app.lummys.com/category/ranking/16/2023

[SKUD]

Only in your world @MATNUM. Read the entire post.