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There are also stats we used to keep for our high school team that aren't recorded (at least publicly) any more. Draw Attempts -- Who took the draw? Draw wins -- did the draw taker's team win the possession? Therefore, credit the draw taker and add to her draw win %age. Now all we get are draw contr...

Awesome that the JMU goal keeper got the assist, that is the correct stat to record. Assists, turnovers, and caused turnovers all involve judgement calls from the stat keeper so they are wildy inconsistent. Women's lax stat manual defines these (I think I publish this link every other year) http://f...

Last year's weekly Top 10 from the IWLCA rankings. Anyone who was in the top 10 at some point. There are some wild rides on this chart. Not so much for the top 5, though.

I am utterly shocked that 4 of 8 people have UNC as the best team in the country. On what basis can you do so when they lost close to 70 percent of their starting line-up, much of which were off the charts USA talent. Hate to break it to you but this UNC team will not get past Stony Brook this year...

Don't watch nearly as much as used to, but I will throw my hat in the forum poll ring.

From watching a bunch of games over the last couple of years, seems like the margin of dangerous shots vs. the margin of dangerous checks is much, much more generous for the shooters. I have seen a bunch of (admittedly impressive) goals go over, around, under defenders that end up as highlights. Is ...

Replay is here, but requires a subscription.

https://www.bigtenplus.com/en-int/playerpage/1271615

that was old version of stats manual...

this is the 2022 version
http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/Stats_Ma ... wlax22.pdf

Personally, I think the most missed stat is the Caused Turn-over.

Not quite accurate. There are plenty of rules that govern the awarding of the stat 'ground ball'... You can read in detail, here.... http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/Stats_Manuals/Lacrosse/wlax20.pdf SECTION 5—GROUND BALLS Philosophy. A ground ball is recorded when a ball changes possession during live...

UVA v Elon - UVA by 8 Syracuse v Stanford - Orange by 6 Duke v Webb - Duke by a lot Irish v CMich - ND by a lot BC v NU - BC by 4 Fla v Kennesaw - Florida by 7 Jacksonville v Va. Tech - Jacksonville by 1 JMU v UNC - UNC by 8 UVA v Cal - UVA by 9 Syracuse v Bing - Syracuse by a lot ND v Michigan - ND...

Congrats, to your daughter doc. Well done!

I am curious to see how this season unfolds, and will a 'Tampa Bay Bucs like' team emerge in the back half the season. One that is able to figure it out after a rough first half. That sounds interesting. Got any teams in mind? Hard to say... there are a few teams in that next group that haven't pla...

Yikes, thought USC would play much, much better.

Tue USC at Stony Brook - USC -- better team than most people think, but will be close game. Fri USC at BC - USC -- see above Duke at UNC - UNC Michigan at Maryland (gm 1) - MD -- at home, bounce back game NU at JHU (gm 1) - NU -- not close. Sat Stony Brook at Syracuse - SU -- too much firepower. VT ...

You must have enjoyed yesterday's results from the Big 10 if it's parity you seek, LaxDad. Good signs, (even if some of the disparity could be attributed to covid protocol and lack of practice time, etc). Sure, I think a lot of the 'upsets' were due to this unique time. It will make weekly polls di...

I think the teams that have all of these: a fall, return a lot of experience, and athletes -- (UNC, syracuse, northwestern,ND) are going to be way ahead of everyone else at least for the first half of the season.

That was a pretty goal for the hounds.

Syracuse with liberal use of the cross check on D.

VT-JMU. VT by 2 Louisville-Co. Lou by 1 UNC-FL. UNC by 8 Richmond-UVA. UVA by 5 Loyola-Syr. Hounds by 3 Duke-VT. Duke by 2 PS-Maryland. Maryland by 4 JMU by 3 Colorado UNC UVA by 1 Duke MD JMU by 2 Colorado by 3 UNC by 7 Richmond by 1 Syracuse by 3 (my heart is with the hounds, but my head says too...