2019 D3 Mens Lacrosse Rankings – Apr 1

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	1,367	9	9
2	Salisbury	1,343	11	11
3	York	1,329	11	10
4	RIT	1,321	10	9
5	Tufts	1,290	9	9
6	Cabrini	1,279	10	8
7	Saint John Fisher	1,276	9	8
8	St. Lawrence	1,252	7	6
9	DeSales	1,223	9	9
10	Franklin and Marshall	1,221	10	7
11	Gettysburg	1,214	11	8
12	Ursinus	1,212	9	8
13	Ithaca	1,198	8	6
14	Dickinson	1,196	10	8
15	Washington and Lee	1,186	11	7
16	Capital	1,183	9	8
17	Wesleyan	1,183	8	7
18	Western New England	1,182	8	5
19	Denison	1,180	8	6
20	Illinois Wesleyan	1,170	9	8
21	Baldwin Wallace	1,155	9	7
22	Bowdoin	1,121	9	5
23	Hood	1,117	8	7
24	Kenyon	1,108	9	6
25	Rhodes	1,105	12	9
26	Oswego	1,105	7	5
27	Bridgewater	1,096	9	6
28	Montclair State	1,095	8	4
29	John Carroll	1,092	7	4
30	Hartwick	1,079	7	6
31	Transylvania	1,075	11	8
32	Lynchburg	1,073	10	6
33	Stockton	1,069	9	7
34	Muhlenberg	1,068	10	8
35	Whittier	1,066	10	9
36	Lasell	1,061	9	8
37	Otterbein	1,061	9	7
38	Williams	1,060	8	7
39	Saint Mary’s (Md)	1,059	12	8
40	Elizabethtown	1,050	10	5
41	Wilkes	1,043	7	5
42	Babson	1,040	9	5
43	Roger Williams	1,032	10	8
44	Southwestern	1,030	10	7
45	Clarkson	1,024	9	5
46	Scranton	1,023	10	5
47	Ohio Northern	1,017	9	8
48	Stevens	1,011	12	10
49	Coast Guard	1,003	9	7
50	Swarthmore	1,000	8	6
51	Bates	1,000	9	7
52	Alfred	992	7	5
53	Univ of New England	985	9	5
54	DePauw	985	8	3
55	Wheaton	982	7	4
56	Cortland	976	8	5
57	Ohio Wesleyan	975	9	3
58	Colby	974	8	4
59	Moravian	972	8	5
60	Trine	972	4	3
61	Middlebury	970	8	3
62	Stevenson	968	9	3
63	US Merchant Marine	968	6	4
64	SUNY Maritime	968	8	5
65	Randolph-Macon	966	10	8
66	Messiah	960	8	4
67	North Central (Ill.)	959	8	7
68	RPI	957	10	9
69	Trinity	954	9	5
70	Roanoke	954	10	6
71	Delaware Valley	953	7	4
72	Sewanee	946	12	8
73	Virginia Wesleyan	943	11	8
74	Wooster	943	10	3
75	Oneonta	939	11	6
76	Eastern	938	10	3
77	Catholic	934	11	5
78	Elmhurst	934	8	4
79	Hampden-Sydney	929	10	7
80	Plattsburgh	927	7	3
81	Union	925	8	7
82	Carthage	922	9	7
83	Saint Joseph’s (ME)	920	10	8
84	Springfield	917	9	3
85	Birmingham-Southern	914	10	5
86	Chatham	913	8	5
87	Skidmore	901	9	3
88	Southern Virginia	900	11	5
89	MIT	900	10	5
90	Haverford	898	10	3
91	Centre	897	10	7
92	Brockport	897	8	4
93	Western Connecticut	896	11	6
94	Manhattanville	893	7	4
95	Christopher Newport	892	12	8
96	Hope	884	8	5
97	Berry	883	11	4
98	William Peace	881	10	4
99	Rivier	881	7	5
100	St. Joseph’s (L.I.)	880	8	3
101	Huntingdon	875	14	8
102	Lebanon Valley	874	10	5
103	Mary Washington	871	11	3
104	Colorado College	869	11	7
105	Sage	868	6	3
106	Hamilton	861	7	3
107	Frostburg	859	8	6
108	Gwynedd-Mercy	858	9	5
109	Farmingdale	858	8	6
110	Misericordia	849	8	4
111	Aurora	845	6	4
112	Guilford	835	11	5
113	Kean	829	6	4
114	Methodist	825	12	7
115	Geneseo	824	9	2
116	Arcadia	814	9	5
117	Goucher	813	8	3
118	Nazareth	807	10	3
119	Endicott	806	9	3
120	Marymount	805	11	5
121	Shenandoah	803	10	6
122	Eastern Connecticut	802	6	4
123	Nichols	792	6	4
124	Susquehanna	791	12	6
125	Washington	782	9	3
126	Norwich	781	7	4
127	Calvin	762	9	6
128	Wentworth	761	11	4
129	Albion	746	7	2
130	Benedictine	743	6	4
131	Lycoming	743	10	3
132	SUNY Canton	741	8	4
133	Kalamazoo	740	6	4
134	SUNY Poly	739	5	3
135	Augustana	737	10	5
136	Keene State	736	7	2
137	Southern Maine	732	6	3
138	New England College	731	9	3
139	Thomas	726	5	1
140	Mt St Mary	719	10	3
141	Plymouth State	718	5	1
142	Washington and Jefferson	714	10	5
143	Widener	708	10	2
144	Massachusetts Maritime	706	5	3
145	Utica	704	9	3
146	Pfeiffer	702	12	7
147	Thiel	698	8	4
148	SUNY Delhi	697	10	6
149	Wabash	685	8	4
150	Marywood	684	8	3
151	Houghton	679	9	4
152	Clark	678	9	3
153	Curry	670	9	3
154	Brevard	662	8	3
155	Piedmont	658	11	4
156	Concordia-Wisconsin	657	8	5
157	Northwestern-St. Paul	654	5	3
158	Alma	654	10	3
159	Fairleigh Dickinson	651	8	4
160	Connecticut College	649	9	3
161	UMass-Dartmouth	647	8	4
162	Saint Vincent	644	9	3
163	Gordon	641	6	3
164	Cazenovia	638	3	2
165	Grove City	635	7	3
166	Neumann	635	8	4
167	Dubuque	625	7	3
168	Anna Maria	622	8	3
169	Salve Regina	620	4	2
170	Heidelberg	612	8	4
171	Keuka	608	6	3
172	Wittenberg	601	9	2
173	Marian	597	8	6
174	Vassar	586	8	2
175	Bethany	585	7	4
176	Hendrix	581	9	4
177	Potsdam	570	7	2
178	Morrisville	568	5	1
179	Emmanuel	550	10	3
180	Westminster (Pa.)	549	6	3
181	Hanover	548	8	5
182	Concordia-Chicago	544	7	3
183	McDaniel	544	11	2
184	Greensboro	537	8	3
185	King’s	536	8	2
186	Lyndon State	515	6	1
187	Bard	505	7	3
188	Salem State	504	6	2
189	Hiram	504	9	6
190	Beloit	500	7	2
191	Mount Union	496	7	2
192	MSOE	493	6	2
193	Husson	492	6	3
194	Purchase	476	6	4
195	TBD	475	0	0
196	Olivet	466	0	0
197	Oberlin	456	7	2
198	Carroll (Wisc.)	456	8	1
199	Hilbert	455	5	2
200	Alfred State	453	9	3
201	Alvernia	452	9	3
202	Castleton	451	7	2
203	Muskingum	449	9	4
204	Johnson and Wales (CO)	449	5	2
205	Cornell (Ia.)	447	8	3
206	Dallas	445	6	1
207	Dean	444	7	4
208	Centenary (LA)	438	3	0
209	Oglethorpe	433	10	4
210	Johnson and Wales (RI)	430	8	2
211	Emerson	430	10	1
212	Bryn Athyn	408	7	2
213	Drew	405	11	1
214	Elmira	399	8	2
215	Marietta	397	7	3
216	Immaculata	383	7	1
217	Earlham	379	8	3
218	Randolph	379	9	2
219	Wesley	375	7	1
220	Northland	372	5	1
221	Centenary (NJ)	372	5	0
222	Mt St Vincent	370	6	1
223	Monmouth (Ill.)	369	7	1
224	UMass-Boston	360	7	1
225	Mitchell	358	8	2
226	Adrian	358	8	3
227	Albertus Magnus	356	6	1
228	Cobleskill	355	6	2
229	Rosemont	353	8	2
230	Regis	313	6	2
231	Ferrum	302	10	1
232	Averett	300	10	1
233	Wells	293	6	1
234	Maine Maritime	290	5	0
235	Fontbonne	288	4	0
236	North Central (Minn.)	277	3	0
237	Johnson State	275	3	0
238	La Roche	272	14	2
239	Medaille	271	8	1
240	Wilmington	270	8	2
241	Albright	269	8	0
242	Anderson	268	7	1
243	Becker	267	6	0
244	Keystone	264	6	0
245	Mt St Joseph’s	263	10	0
246	Franciscan	261	9	0

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.