FORUM: Comment
LINK: D1 Men’s Lacrosse – The Week of 04.16.18
Each NCAA Men’s D1 Team is organized, top to bottom, by their 2nd Worst Loss, Worst Loss, Best Win, and 2nd Best Win. While head-to-head wins and losses are important for close-calls, our focus is on, in order, best wins and worst losses. For example, JHU beat SU. But SU’s wins are better and JHU’s losses are worse. So SU gets a higher seed. If JHU’s wins and losses were more similar, then JHU would get the nod because of their head-to-head match-up.
This is fine, I don’t feel strongly about these rankings but… I do feel relatively strongly about other rankings being wrong. This is why Nike/US Lacrosse is wrong.
| 2nd Worst L | Worst L | Rank | Best W | 2nd Best W | ||
| 1 | Albany | 0 | UMBC | 1 | UMD | SU |
| 2 | UMD | 0 | Albany | 2 | Villanova | JHU |
| 3 | Syracuse | JHU | Rutgers | 3 | Duke | Notre Dame |
| 4 | Duke | SU | Penn | 4 | Notre Dame | Denver |
| 5 | Notre Dame | Duke | Michigan | 5 | Denver | UVA |
| 6 | Denver | Duke | Notre Dame | 6 | Villanova | Georgetown |
| 7 | Villanova | Georgetown | Brown | 7 | Yale | PSU |
| 8 | Yale | Villanova | Bucknell | 8 | Cornell | Penn |
| 9 | Cornell | Yale | Colgate | 9 | SU | PSU |
| 10 | Penn State | Villanova | Robert Morris | 10 | JHU | Penn |
| 11 | JHU | Loyola | UNC | 11 | SU | Rutgers |
| 12 | Penn | Brown | St. Josephs | 12 | Duke | Michigan |
| 13 | Rutgers | Army | Princeton | 13 | SU | Michigan |
| 14 | Bucknell | Navy | Richmond | 14 | Yale | Loyola |
| 15 | UVA | JHU | Notre Dame | 15 | Loyola | UNC |
| 16 | Loyola | Bucknell | UVA | 16 | JHU | Navy |
| 17 | Brown | Providence | Quinnipiac | 17 | Villanova | Penn |
| 18 | Navy | Loyola | Jacksonville | 18 | Bucknell | Colgate |
| 19 | Lehigh | Navy | UNC | 19 | Army | Holy Cross |
| 20 | Army | Colgate | BU | 20 | Rutgers | Holy Cross |
FORUM: Comment
LINK: D1 Men’s Lacrosse – The Week of 04.16.18
