2019 D3 Mens Lacrosse Rankings – Mar 18

The D3 Men Team Rankings are based on each team’s performance thus far this season. So that no team has an advantage or disadvantage due to playing more or less games, we normalized the # of games played to 3 games played. As the season progresses, for obvious reasons, we will increase the number of games played for the normalization of our Points.

Team = Team, Pts (N) = Points Normalized (to 3 games), Gs = Number of games the team has played.

–	Team	Points (N)	Games
1	Salisbury	1,416	8
2	RIT	1,390	6
3	Amherst	1,387	5
4	Cabrini	1,386	7
5	Ursinus	1,381	6
6	York	1,312	8
7	Wesleyan	1,279	6
8	Bates	1,278	6
9	Tufts	1,241	6
10	Gettysburg	1,180	8
11	RPI	1,164	6
12	Denison	1,163	6
13	Christopher Newport	1,160	8
14	DeSales	1,147	7
15	Stevens	1,139	7
16	Illinois Wesleyan	1,088	5
17	Union	1,080	5
18	Saint John Fisher	1,075	6
19	St. Lawrence	1,055	3
20	Dickinson	1,049	7
21	Bowdoin	1,045	5
22	Williams	1,045	4
23	Franklin and Marshall	1,037	7
24	Roanoke	1,005	6
25	Lynchburg	995	8
26	Stockton	983	5
27	Hampden-Sydney	982	8
28	Middlebury	980	5
29	Colorado College	972	7
30	Springfield	971	5
31	Frostburg	970	5
32	Baldwin Wallace	969	6
33	Rhodes	968	8
34	Washington and Lee	966	8
35	Clarkson	959	5
36	Muhlenberg	955	7
37	Randolph-Macon	949	7
38	Cortland	949	5
39	Elizabethtown	933	7
40	Lasell	931	5
41	Capital	929	6
42	Nazareth	921	6
43	Kenyon	903	6
44	Stevenson	895	6
45	Whittier	895	6
46	US Merchant Marine	885	3
47	Swarthmore	882	5
48	Coast Guard	878	5
49	Saint Mary’s (Md)	876	9
50	Ohio Northern	857	6
51	Otterbein	848	6
52	Marymount	827	8
53	Brockport	826	5
54	Birmingham-Southern	811	7
55	Carthage	811	7
56	Southwestern	809	8
57	St. Joseph’s (L.I.)	806	4
58	Western New England	804	5
59	Oswego	796	3
60	Washington	787	6
61	Geneseo	782	5
62	Sewanee	774	7
63	Widener	773	6
64	Hartwick	764	4
65	Guilford	757	7
66	Virginia Wesleyan	755	7
67	Transylvania	754	7
68	Univ of New England	752	5
69	Roger Williams	749	6
70	Scranton	747	7
71	Southern Virginia	743	8
72	Haverford	738	6
73	MIT	736	6
74	Bridgewater	724	5
75	Elmhurst	722	5
76	Hood	721	4
77	Shenandoah	718	8
78	Manhattanville	709	3
79	Connecticut College	709	5
80	North Central (Ill.)	706	5
81	Trine	700	3
82	John Carroll	694	4
83	Eastern	692	7
84	Montclair State	691	6
85	Utica	689	5
86	Moravian	685	6
87	Trinity	684	5
88	Southern Maine	683	2
89	Catholic	674	9
90	Rivier	663	4
91	Marywood	661	5
92	Misericordia	661	4
93	Messiah	658	5
94	Clark	658	5
95	Gwynedd-Mercy	648	7
96	Curry	646	5
97	Wilkes	644	5
98	Norwich	642	5
99	DePauw	640	4
100	Goucher	640	6
101	Keene State	621	4
102	New England College	620	5
103	Hendrix	613	5
104	Hope	612	5
105	Susquehanna	609	9
106	Albion	597	5
107	Fairleigh Dickinson	595	5
108	Westminster (Pa.)	589	5
109	Western Connecticut	589	7
110	Wheaton	583	4
111	Farmingdale	582	6
112	Berry	582	7
113	Concordia-Wisconsin	578	4
114	Kean	578	2
115	Pfeiffer	575	8
116	Potsdam	573	4
117	Cornell (Ia.)	572	2
118	Benedictine	571	5
119	UMass-Dartmouth	570	3
120	Gordon	570	3
121	Hamilton	568	4
122	Kalamazoo	566	4
123	Wooster	565	6
124	Babson	564	6
125	Randolph	548	5
126	Alfred	545	4
127	Arcadia	543	5
128	Aurora	543	2
129	Bryn Athyn	543	4
130	Centre	525	7
131	Oberlin	523	4
132	Hiram	523	5
133	Methodist	522	9
134	McDaniel	521	7
135	Immaculata	521	3
136	Ohio Wesleyan	519	6
137	Ithaca	517	3
138	Dallas	512	5
139	Huntingdon	511	10
140	Houghton	510	4
141	Brevard	509	6
142	SUNY Delhi	509	6
143	Neumann	507	7
144	Oneonta	497	7
145	Wittenberg	495	6
146	William Peace	494	6
147	Hanover	493	6
148	Emmanuel	492	6
149	Rosemont	491	5
150	Keuka	487	3
151	SUNY Canton	483	5
152	Grove City	478	5
153	Mt St Vincent	474	4
154	Calvin	472	7
155	Mount Union	471	5
156	Alma	470	8
157	Greensboro	465	5
158	Delaware Valley	459	4
159	Saint Joseph’s (ME)	456	6
160	Vassar	455	5
161	Hilbert	452	2
162	Wesley	450	4
163	Washington and Jefferson	440	8
164	Alvernia	437	6
165	Bard	436	4
166	Anna Maria	435	4
167	Regis	435	2
168	Thiel	433	6
169	Augustana	430	6
170	Sage	410	3
171	Oglethorpe	410	6
172	Purchase	403	4
173	Mitchell	402	5
174	Northwestern-St. Paul	400	3
175	Dean	393	3
176	Nichols	392	3
177	Castleton	391	3
178	UMass-Boston	391	4
179	SUNY Maritime	389	4
180	Elmira	384	4
181	Alfred State	384	4
182	Dubuque	375	4
183	Eastern Connecticut	372	1
184	Muskingum	370	5
185	Wells	366	4
186	Massachusetts Maritime	361	2
187	Ferrum	356	8
188	Mt St Mary	351	6
189	Colby	345	4
190	Piedmont	339	8
191	Husson	327	3
192	Chatham	324	6
193	Mary Washington	323	7
194	Lebanon Valley	313	7
195	Bethany	302	5
196	Wabash	299	6
197	Marietta	297	4
198	Cobleskill	293	3
199	Wentworth	288	7
200	Lycoming	285	7
201	Heidelberg	273	5
202	Adrian	258	6
203	Anderson	257	4
204	Johnson and Wales	254	7
205	Earlham	251	4
206	Wilmington	224	5
207	Northland	221	1
208	Marian	220	2
209	Plattsburgh	220	4
210	Endicott	220	5
211	Monmouth (Ill.)	220	2
212	Olivet	200	0
213	TBD	200	0
214	Fontbonne	200	1
215	Albertus Magnus	200	2
216	Becker	200	2
217	Plymouth State	200	2
218	Salem State	200	2
219	Salve Regina	200	2
220	SUNY Poly	200	2
221	Beloit	199	3
222	Concordia-Chicago	199	3
223	Morrisville	199	3
224	MSOE	199	3
225	Saint Vincent	199	6
226	Averett	199	7
227	Thomas	199	2
228	Lyndon State	199	3
229	Maine Maritime	199	3
230	North Central (Minn.)	199	1
231	Albright	198	5
232	Johnson State	198	2
233	Drew	198	7
234	Cazenovia	198	1
235	Keystone	198	3
236	Medaille	197	5
237	King’s	197	6
238	Skidmore	197	4
239	Centenary (LA)	196	2
240	Emerson	196	6
241	Carroll (Wisc.)	195	6
242	Franciscan	195	5
243	Mt St Joseph’s	194	7
244	Centenary (NJ)	194	3
245	La Roche	194	11

FanLax Rankings

In the simplest terms, with the FanLax (10% Ante) Ranking System, every team, based on their performance in the previous season, starts the new season with an allocated number of Points. And, throughout the season, when a team wins, they earn 10% of their opponent’s Points. When they lose, they lose 10% of their own Points. There’s also an adjustment of the earned Points based on the disparity between the teams that play each other but these are details. Bottomline, you want to beat teams with lots of Points and, though you don’t want to lose, if you do lose, you don’t want to lose to teams with few Points.

This is an explanation of how to read the Game Scores and FanLax Team Points.

Bottomline, Team A wants to beat teams with (a) a lot of Points and (b) more Points than Team A has.  Conversely, Team A doesn’t want to lose but if Team A does lose, Team A wants to lose to teams with more Points than Team A has.