One of the benefits of 10% Ante is that you can see explicitly why a team moved up, down, or otherwise.  For example, when looking at the First Five results, here are some questions we had and you may have had them, too.  And, if nothing else, it help us both get better acquainted with 10% Ante.

How is Albany so far ahead of everyone?

Albany, like everybody, started with 1,000 points.  But in the first five games, Albany played five high-points teams in Syracuse (1,000), Drexel (900), Cornell (948), Massachusetts (821), and Maryland (1,527) and Albany and beat them all. 1,000 + 150 + 74 + 134 + 92 + 282 = 1,732

 

There’s more but… We decided to use a different pre-season Ranking for 2018 so… that’s it for now.