2019 D3 Mens Lacrosse Rankings – Mar 29

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 (W)	Games	Wins
1	Amherst	1,324	8	8
2	Salisbury	1,329	10	10
3	Tufts	1,269	8	8
4	RIT	1,318	9	8
5	York	1,262	10	9
6	Wesleyan	1,244	7	6
7	Williams	1,222	7	6
8	RPI	1,138	9	8
9	Cabrini	1,176	9	7
10	Ursinus	1,089	8	7
11	Bates	1,153	8	6
12	Denison	1,125	7	5
13	Stevens	1,121	10	8
14	St. Lawrence	1,052	6	5
15	Union	1,047	7	6
16	Dickinson	1,098	9	7
17	DeSales	960	9	9
18	Illinois Wesleyan	1,013	8	7
19	Saint John Fisher	1,013	8	7
20	Gettysburg	1,105	10	7
21	Ithaca	1,031	7	5
22	Franklin and Marshall	1,118	9	6
23	Whittier	974	10	9
24	Christopher Newport	1,077	11	8
25	Roanoke	1,050	9	6
26	Coast Guard	945	8	6
27	Swarthmore	880	7	6
28	Middlebury	1,015	7	3
29	Cortland	981	7	4
30	Bowdoin	980	8	5
31	Lynchburg	1,047	9	5
32	Washington and Lee	1,068	10	6
33	Western New England	969	7	4
34	Stockton	874	8	6
35	Clarkson	910	8	5
36	Hamilton	846	6	3
37	Hampden-Sydney	891	9	6
38	Babson	978	8	4
39	Muhlenberg	774	9	8
40	Capital	741	8	7
41	SUNY Maritime	796	7	5
42	Frostburg	792	8	6
43	Sewanee	850	10	7
44	Colorado College	841	10	7
45	Roger Williams	779	9	7
46	Randolph-Macon	769	9	7
47	Montclair State	818	7	3
48	Aurora	734	5	3
49	Colby	782	7	4
50	Brockport	786	7	4
51	Ohio Northern	689	8	7
52	Hartwick	691	6	5
53	Springfield	726	8	2
54	Oswego	681	6	5
55	Stevenson	713	8	2
56	Rhodes	772	10	7
57	Lasell	669	8	7
58	Trinity	781	8	4
59	Baldwin Wallace	689	8	6
60	Nazareth	794	9	3
61	Marymount	846	10	5
62	Ohio Wesleyan	797	8	3
63	Endicott	667	8	2
64	Eastern Connecticut	595	4	2
65	Elizabethtown	893	9	4
66	Carthage	662	8	6
67	US Merchant Marine	615	5	3
68	Plattsburgh	592	6	2
69	Gwynedd-Mercy	703	8	5
70	Skidmore	773	8	3
71	Kenyon	719	8	5
72	Otterbein	653	8	6
73	Washington	650	8	2
74	Messiah	690	7	3
75	Transylvania	671	10	7
76	Haverford	764	9	3
77	Keene State	631	6	1
78	Wittenberg	630	8	2
79	Alfred	625	6	4
80	Bridgewater	616	8	6
81	Scranton	721	9	5
82	John Carroll	613	6	4
83	Virginia Wesleyan	654	10	7
84	Shenandoah	654	9	6
85	Univ of New England	649	8	5
86	Saint Joseph’s (ME)	603	9	7
87	Saint Mary’s (Md)	711	11	7
88	Moravian	603	7	5
89	Albion	525	6	2
90	Farmingdale	593	8	6
91	Misericordia	628	7	3
92	Geneseo	585	8	2
93	Clark	674	8	3
94	Grove City	540	6	2
95	Albright	575	7	0
96	Delaware Valley	613	7	4
97	Wheaton	568	6	4
98	Nichols	538	4	3
99	Johnson and Wales (RI)	567	7	1
100	Arcadia	602	8	5
101	Catholic	747	10	4
102	Widener	560	9	2
103	Centre	594	9	6
104	Kean	501	5	3
105	Berry	650	9	3
106	Hood	507	7	6
107	Manhattanville	532	6	4
108	Norwich	530	6	3
109	Birmingham-Southern	566	8	5
110	Guilford	691	10	5
111	Wilkes	529	6	4
112	Concordia-Wisconsin	559	7	4
113	Eastern	651	9	3
114	Goucher	568	7	3
115	North Central (Ill.)	487	7	6
116	Connecticut College	626	8	3
117	Potsdam	460	6	2
118	Vassar	497	7	2
119	Cornell (Ia.)	476	5	3
120	DePauw	541	7	3
121	Sage	468	5	3
122	MIT	643	9	4
123	Elmhurst	544	7	3
124	Southwestern	537	10	7
125	McDaniel	487	10	2
126	Salve Regina	442	3	1
127	Rivier	454	6	5
128	Wooster	480	9	2
129	Fairleigh Dickinson	547	8	4
130	Hope	478	6	4
131	SUNY Poly	413	4	2
132	Lebanon Valley	593	10	5
133	Susquehanna	627	11	5
134	Southern Virginia	645	10	5
135	Northwestern-St. Paul	445	4	3
136	Cazenovia	396	3	2
137	Utica	562	8	3
138	Drew	463	10	1
139	Southern Maine	428	4	3
140	St. Joseph’s (L.I.)	495	7	3
141	Lycoming	452	9	2
142	Gordon	423	5	3
143	Morrisville	416	5	1
144	Mary Washington	439	10	2
145	Keuka	437	6	3
146	Curry	512	8	3
147	Kalamazoo	407	5	4
148	Benedictine	396	5	3
149	UMass-Dartmouth	465	7	4
150	Western Connecticut	512	10	6
151	Methodist	544	11	6
152	Massachusetts Maritime	401	4	3
153	Hendrix	452	7	3
154	Anna Maria	443	7	3
155	Marywood	417	7	2
156	Alma	494	9	3
157	Westminster (Pa.)	385	5	3
158	New England College	411	8	2
159	UMass-Boston	409	6	1
160	Bard	406	6	3
161	Mt St Mary	515	9	3
162	Trine	318	3	2
163	Pfeiffer	515	11	6
164	William Peace	510	9	4
165	Castleton	352	6	2
166	Randolph	385	8	2
167	Piedmont	489	10	4
168	Houghton	454	8	4
169	Beloit	383	6	1
170	Augustana	462	8	3
171	Oneonta	518	10	5
172	Plymouth State	375	4	0
173	King’s	375	8	2
174	Greensboro	411	7	3
175	Ferrum	373	10	1
176	Thiel	399	7	4
177	Hanover	371	7	5
178	Marian	370	7	5
179	Olivet	368	0	0
180	Huntingdon	482	13	7
181	Mount Union	323	6	2
182	Hilbert	315	5	2
183	Oberlin	361	7	2
184	Centenary (LA)	361	3	0
185	Neumann	423	8	4
186	Dean	352	6	3
187	Bryn Athyn	349	6	1
188	Washington and Jefferson	414	9	5
189	Dubuque	374	7	3
190	Emmanuel	419	9	3
191	Wesley	344	6	1
192	Purchase	320	5	3
193	MSOE	279	5	2
194	Brevard	339	7	2
195	Hiram	337	8	6
196	Regis	286	5	2
197	Dallas	336	6	1
198	Immaculata	335	6	1
199	Alvernia	389	8	3
200	Wentworth	411	10	3
201	Johnson and Wales (CO)	277	5	2
202	SUNY Canton	356	7	3
203	Calvin	361	8	5
204	Centenary (NJ)	332	4	0
205	Saint Vincent	329	8	2
206	SUNY Delhi	380	9	5
207	Wabash	334	7	3
208	Salem State	279	5	1
209	Rosemont	304	7	1
210	Carroll (Wisc.)	300	8	1
211	Cobleskill	247	5	2
212	Emerson	297	9	1
213	Albertus Magnus	259	5	1
214	Husson	241	5	2
215	Mt St Vincent	289	6	1
216	Wells	263	5	1
217	Muskingum	327	8	4
218	Elmira	282	7	2
219	Northland	252	3	1
220	Adrian	323	8	3
221	Lyndon State	254	5	1
222	Alfred State	327	8	3
223	Chatham	295	7	4
224	Wilmington	269	7	2
225	Bethany	265	6	3
226	Heidelberg	281	7	3
227	Marietta	258	6	3
228	Oglethorpe	298	8	4
229	Becker	252	5	0
230	Concordia-Chicago	210	5	2
231	Mitchell	249	7	2
232	Franciscan	234	8	0
233	Averett	233	9	1
234	Monmouth (Ill.)	230	6	1
235	Thomas	206	4	1
236	Keystone	224	5	0
237	Maine Maritime	214	5	0
238	Fontbonne	213	3	0
239	Mt St Joseph’s	211	9	0
240	Medaille	205	7	0
241	North Central (Minn.)	203	2	0
242	Johnson State	198	3	0
243	La Roche	197	13	2
244	Earlham	195	7	2
245	Anderson	189	7	1

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.