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Having now watched a full Salisbury game, they are a full head and shoulders over any of the other remaining teams. I would be shocked if they don't win it all and somewhat surprised if any of the games are particularly close.

laxpert wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 9:30 pm If the NCAA guideline for ground travel is up to 400 miles, both Tufts and SJF exceed that amount. I imagine the NC$$ will find a couple of shortcuts that will allow the use of a motorcoach

500, not sure if it matters.

Nice, got promoted to CC champs pregame! Thanks, Salisbury announcer!

Anyone watching the Tufts-Stevenson game? The scoreboard chyron is backwards, right?

Thoughts on Swat-Endicott: Final score was right around where I expected it to be, and the Garnet continued their strong second-half adjustments. Endicott was really impressive on face-offs, particularly wing play and ground ball battles. That took a relatively small advantage on the draws themselve...

choochooCharlie wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 11:41 am Fair. Does Massey have a result prediction for Endicott Swarthmore?

Expecting a barn burner, 58% Garnet, 14-13 projected final. https://masseyratings.com/game.php?gid=940476613

FWIW laxreference has Denison winning 74 times out of 100 sims vs Babson. I think LaxReference has improved a lot this year, but their Elo model has failed to adequately account for the geographic imbalance in D3 lacrosse for years. They consistently have Midwestern teams wildly overrated and the c...

Bigdawg69 wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 3:10 pm Endicott will beat swarthmore this weekend. They are a complete team

Bet a beer on it? I'll even give you Endicott +2.5.

Denison hasn't beaten a team from East of the Pennsylvania border this year (don't fact check me on Transylvania), and I don't expect that to change tomorrow.

If I were a Dickinson fan, I'd be way more worked up about the number of players on the all conference teams than the coach(ing staff) of the year award.

Who has the hardest pod & who has the easiest? I think if Salisbury weren't a big favorite over the majority of the field we would say they got a tough draw - - three combined losses between the Gulls, Endicott, and Swarthmore. Tufts/Union/Stevenson could all advance out of that pod and it woul...

No chatter on Dickinson taking the title or Gettysburg missing out on the NCAA's? I guess it didn't surprise anybody. Swat and Roanoke took the paved road to the NCAA's while Getty went the old dirt trail. Worked out S&R if the only goal is to make NCAA's. I simply admire Getty more. Not that m...

Well, I got Pool C right and went 10/12 on first round games. Hosting is always much more difficult (and to be honest, I was feeling some time pressure by the time I was trying to put that part together!).

Jumbo wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2024 8:57 pm you have stevens doing a lot of traveling

One is Papa Stevens, one is Steven's son. Really could put either in either spot. Good catch though!

And to the hosting question, this is far from optimized, but there does appear to be a bracket with only 2 predicted flights with Salisbury, CNU, Wesleyan, RPI, RIT, Tufts, Dickinson, and Denison hosting. 1 Salisbury 32 Lake Forrest/ Aurora 16 Stevens 17 Roanoke 9 Lynchburg 24 Cabrini 8 CNU 25 CENTR...

Great analysis, although Dickinson is a Pool A team with winning the Centennial Conference. That would leave an additional spot for Bowdoin, Amherst, or Gettysburg Lol, damnit. Well at least I caught the same issue with the ODAC on my own :lol: . I even watched most of the CC final. Give me Bowdoin...

Edit: It has been brought to my attention that, regrettably, Dickinson are the 2024 Centennial Conference champions and will not be taking a Pool C bid. I think there is pretty widespread agreement that [redacted], CNU, SLU, RIT, and Tufts are in. That leaves six spots split between (RPI #s from Lax...

Laxattackjack uses his own system to evaluate teams that doesn't have much in common with the way anyone else (or the committee) looks at things.

Picked a bad time to just not slide to the wing dodge.

Stevenson won't make the RR cut ahead of Gettysburg. They will win today or be 3-6 vRRO.