2019 D3 Men Lacrosse Rankings – Mar 25

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 5 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 5 games), Gs = Number of games the team has played.

FanLax Rankings

–	Team	Points (N)	Games
1	Amherst	1,561	7
2	Salisbury	1,546	9
3	Tufts	1,510	8
4	St. Lawrence	1,489	5
5	RIT	1,464	8
6	Wesleyan	1,438	7
7	York	1,424	10
8	Williams	1,379	6
9	Cabrini	1,338	8
10	DeSales	1,325	8
11	RPI	1,305	8
12	Ursinus	1,279	7
13	Gettysburg	1,270	9
14	Saint John Fisher	1,270	7
15	Bates	1,249	8
16	Union	1,243	6
17	Denison	1,229	7
18	Illinois Wesleyan	1,226	7
19	Dickinson	1,212	8
20	Stevens	1,212	9
21	Middlebury	1,191	6
22	Frostburg	1,154	7
23	Swarthmore	1,148	7
24	Coast Guard	1,146	7
25	Bowdoin	1,120	7
26	Stockton	1,117	7
27	Franklin and Marshall	1,116	8
28	Christopher Newport	1,114	11
29	Roanoke	1,110	8
30	Ithaca	1,098	5
31	Cortland	1,097	7
32	Oswego	1,055	5
33	Montclair State	1,049	6
34	Whittier	1,049	9
35	Hartwick	1,048	5
36	Sewanee	1,021	10
37	Lynchburg	1,018	9
38	Washington and Lee	1,011	9
39	Capital	1,005	8
40	Clarkson	1,005	7
41	Lasell	1,005	7
42	Brockport	1,003	7
43	Hampden-Sydney	999	9
44	Aurora	993	4
45	Randolph-Macon	992	8
46	Hamilton	985	6
47	Nazareth	981	8
48	Western New England	979	6
49	Univ of New England	968	7
50	Keene State	966	5
51	Cornell (Ia.)	962	5
52	Colorado College	961	9
53	Roger Williams	958	8
54	Baldwin Wallace	952	7
55	Bridgewater	942	7
56	Plattsburgh	941	6
57	Colby	938	6
58	Babson	928	8
59	US Merchant Marine	928	5
60	Carthage	925	7
61	Misericordia	924	6
62	Muhlenberg	921	8
63	Rhodes	916	10
64	Eastern Connecticut	907	3
65	MIT	905	7
66	Wheaton	902	5
67	Trinity	900	7
68	Ohio Northern	898	8
69	Ohio Wesleyan	894	8
70	Alfred	888	5
71	Stevenson	885	7
72	Springfield	872	7
73	Farmingdale	860	7
74	Hood	857	6
75	Transylvania	853	9
76	Albion	852	6
77	Endicott	852	7
78	Scranton	846	9
79	Shenandoah	841	9
80	Marymount	839	10
81	Otterbein	835	8
82	Kenyon	832	8
83	Concordia-Wisconsin	831	6
84	Guilford	829	9
85	Vassar	818	7
86	Potsdam	817	5
87	Messiah	816	6
88	Wittenberg	815	8
89	Elizabethtown	804	8
90	Geneseo	802	7
91	Haverford	796	8
92	Moravian	790	7
93	Grove City	788	6
94	Washington	787	7
95	Arcadia	787	7
96	Delaware Valley	787	6
97	Skidmore	784	6
98	John Carroll	782	6
99	Clark	781	7
100	Albright	771	6
101	Birmingham-Southern	767	8
102	Utica	757	7
103	Goucher	754	7
104	Widener	750	8
105	Nichols	750	3
106	McDaniel	750	9
107	St. Joseph’s (L.I.)	749	6
108	Virginia Wesleyan	738	9
109	Rivier	735	5
110	Johnson and Wales (RI)	733	6
111	SUNY Poly	727	3
112	Gwynedd-Mercy	727	8
113	Salve Regina	725	3
114	Kean	723	4
115	Manhattanville	719	5
116	Wooster	718	8
117	Lebanon Valley	712	9
118	Hope	712	6
119	Centre	710	9
120	Southwestern	706	10
121	Berry	705	9
122	North Central (Ill.)	705	7
123	Elmhurst	702	6
124	Fairleigh Dickinson	698	7
125	Saint Mary’s (Md)	697	11
126	DePauw	687	6
127	Morrisville	686	4
128	Northwestern-St. Paul	685	4
129	Susquehanna	685	10
130	Wilkes	684	6
131	UMass-Dartmouth	683	5
132	Lycoming	677	8
133	Norwich	672	6
134	Drew	668	9
135	UMass-Boston	660	5
136	Catholic	659	10
137	Oberlin	658	5
138	Cazenovia	657	2
139	Keuka	653	5
140	Western Connecticut	653	9
141	Bard	653	5
142	Southern Virginia	651	10
143	Curry	648	7
144	Benedictine	645	5
145	Gordon	639	4
146	Plymouth State	634	3
147	Mary Washington	634	9
148	Saint Joseph’s (ME)	631	8
149	Hendrix	627	7
150	Massachusetts Maritime	627	4
151	Southern Maine	626	3
152	Marywood	624	7
153	Randolph	620	7
154	Beloit	619	5
155	Eastern	612	9
156	Methodist	610	11
157	Alma	599	9
158	New England College	597	7
159	Pfeiffer	585	10
160	Trine	582	3
161	Castleton	580	6
162	Kalamazoo	578	4
163	Dubuque	575	5
164	King’s	568	7
165	Westminster (Pa.)	566	5
166	Greensboro	561	5
167	Hanover	559	7
168	Alvernia	558	7
169	Augustana	557	8
170	Wesley	554	5
171	Olivet	553	0
172	Hilbert	550	4
173	Connecticut College	548	7
174	Thiel	547	7
175	Centenary (LA)	542	3
176	Huntingdon	538	11
177	Immaculata	536	5
178	Mount Union	535	6
179	Mt St Mary	534	8
180	Neumann	528	7
181	Bryn Athyn	527	6
182	Oneonta	523	9
183	Ferrum	522	9
184	Dean	519	5
185	Purchase	519	5
186	Emmanuel	515	7
187	Wentworth	514	9
188	Hiram	513	7
189	Regis	511	4
190	Washington and Jefferson	506	8
191	Alfred State	502	6
192	Calvin	501	8
193	Centenary (NJ)	500	4
194	Saint Vincent	499	8
195	SUNY Canton	493	7
196	Houghton	481	6
197	Brevard	478	7
198	Marian	477	4
199	Elmira	472	6
200	Wabash	468	7
201	Rosemont	464	6
202	Anna Maria	461	5
203	Piedmont	455	10
204	SUNY Delhi	449	8
205	Cobleskill	445	5
206	Mt St Vincent	445	5
207	SUNY Maritime	445	6
208	Husson	444	5
209	Heidelberg	434	6
210	Muskingum	433	7
211	Salem State	427	4
212	Lyndon State	426	4
213	Adrian	424	8
214	Wells	424	5
215	Albertus Magnus	424	4
216	Northland	420	2
217	Wilmington	409	6
218	Bethany	408	6
219	William Peace	404	8
220	Becker	389	4
221	Oglethorpe	387	8
222	Concordia-Chicago	385	5
223	Monmouth (Ill.)	381	4
224	Emerson	369	8
225	Marietta	369	5
226	Franciscan	363	7
227	Mitchell	361	6
228	Thomas	353	4
229	Keystone	344	4
230	Maine Maritime	337	4
231	Fontbonne	334	3
232	Dallas	331	6
233	Mt St Joseph’s	329	8
234	Carroll (Wisc.)	328	8
235	Medaille	321	7
236	North Central (Minn.)	313	2
237	Johnson State	306	3
238	Johnson and Wales (CO)	304	5
239	Averett	303	9
240	La Roche	293	13
241	MSOE	287	4
242	Sage	287	4
243	Chatham	280	7
244	Earlham	236	6
245	Anderson	198	6

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.