2023 FanLax Forum Poll

[Matnum PI]

... I manually punched these in yesterday...

Noooooo! Please don't. I'm happy to e-mail it to you. In the future, just e-mail me at [email protected] and I'll be happy to send you the data.

[HomerCoach]

I haven't watched a lot of these teams, but thought the variety was kind of interesting and wanted to look at the results. Thanks to everyone for submitting!

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believer column tags "everyone" if more than 10 voters ranked them.
Doubter column tags "everyone" if the team only got 1 vote.
Believer and doubter choices identify the biggest differential owner from the Fanlax forum average.

Interesting to see myself as a doubter of four teams that I have ranked

I'll take a look today to make sure there aren't any errors in my calc - it is possible though that even with a ranking you were skeptical of the forum's average ranking (e.g. you had St Lawrence at 16 when the average was 9)

I did mistakenly have you Stevenson ranking at both 15 and 17 for you which resulted in your 'doubter' position for them. I summed the two spots to 32 and given the average position of 26 it meant you 'lagged' the average by 6 slots. I'll fix that though since it's a typo on my part!

Thanks...not sure what happened there, I do know that picks are hard to edit on my phone

Not sure I wanted Stevenson at 15 OR 17, but that's a me error.

[Matnum PI]

No upsets yesterday except... Hampden-Sydney beating Washington and Lee, 11-10.

The games that went as expected include:
RIT 13 - 8 Cortland
Swarthmore 18 - 8 Muhlenberg
Christopher Newport 14 - 8 Williams
Dickinson 14 - 8 Franklin & Marshall
Gettysburg 18 - 8 McDaniel
Stevenson 18 - 9 Kean
Baldwin Wallace 8 - 4 John Carroll
Ithaca 16 - 3 Misericordia
Amherst 17 - 9 Western New England
Washington 14 - 11 Haverford
MIT 19 - 3 US Merchant Marine
York 20 - 4 Hood
Roanoke 26 - 7 Guilford
Trinity 9 - 8 Coast Guard
Elmhurst 15 - 7 Calvin
Stevens 28 - 10 FDU-Florham
Denison 17 - 6 Transylvania
Geneseo 9 - 8 Saint John Fisher
Mary Washington 12 - 9 Bridgewater
Illinois Wesleyan 16 - 7 Aurora
Grove City 15 - 12 Saint Vincent
Widener 24 - 8 Lebanon Valley
Endicott 20 - 4 Wentworth
Scranton 17 - 3 Utica

[JustOneTime]

If you are a Muhlenberg fan you probably would say it did not go as expected. Swarthmore is slick so the rest of the Centennial Conference is now on notice.

[HomerCoach]

If you are a Muhlenberg fan you probably would say it did not go as expected. Swarthmore is slick so the rest of the Centennial Conference is now on notice.

Swat...WHOA! Great shooting and excellent defensive execution!

[smoova]

If you are a Muhlenberg fan you probably would say it did not go as expected. Swarthmore is slick so the rest of the Centennial Conference is now on notice.

Swat...WHOA! Great shooting and excellent defensive execution!

Giving Gress some juice with admissions has paid pretty quick on-field dividends - excited to see this program blossom over the next few years.

[ah23]

Who knows if this will stick come tournament time, but this year feels unusually wide open and entertaining. Tons of upsets, no truly invincible teams blowing everyone out (there’s one, but everyone knows what happened in 2021/22), etc. Lots of fun to follow D-III right now.

[Laxattackjack]

Who knows if this will stick come tournament time, but this year feels unusually wide open and entertaining. Tons of upsets, no truly invincible teams blowing everyone out (there’s one, but everyone knows what happened in 2021/22), etc. Lots of fun to follow D-III right now.

Each year, more and more kids are playing lax. 2021/2022 classs were the beginning of the boom in club lax. These classes are loaded with talent. Combine that with D3 getting more attention, I think we are seeing an early sign of the future. D1, D2, and D3 are seeing a wide range of talent in the top 20. More and more top level kids available. And more and more top level kids are choosing to play, vs going to a school where they might sit the bench for the first two years. All this adds up to lots of talent, spread over more teams, resulting in more very good teams. Will be tough for teams to repeat because more teams can compete

[Matnum PI]

Reminder: FanLax Forum Polls are due on Monday (Today) at noon EST. Enjoy this weekend's games. Forum Poll Link (with Submission Links towards the bottom of the page). All are welcome to submit a ranking.

[charliefayispredator]

Did not qualify and should not ever be considered as part of a very serious Division 3 lacrosse blog discussion about championship contenders:

-Denison

I think Big Red has a solid chance to run the balance of their 2023 schedule into May. Depending on the new bracket system they could have a decent shot at RIT in a semi. I consider Big Red - Best of the West.

ruh roh

[MrLax2U]

Hi charlie; My rankings today reflect this past weekend games. NCAC has three ranked teams. Need to study up on Kenyon and Wooster. To be honest I'd never heard of them so I'll learn something.

Can you give us some commentary on them and would you consider joining the Forum Poll?

[smoova]

Hi charlie; My rankings today reflect this past weekend games. NCAC has three ranked teams. Need to study up on Kenyon and Wooster. To be honest I'd never heard of them so I'll learn something.

Can you give us some commentary on them and would you consider joining the Forum Poll?

MrLax is the clubhouse leader for misnomer of the year.

[Matnum PI]

[SixBySix]

Seeing a lot of ballots that are pretty hard to defend from a Centennial perspective...

[laxrat1982]

The fact that some polls don’t have Swat in the top 20 let alone at all is a massive head scratcher. They are very talented this year and will be for at least the next few years.

[HomerCoach]

Seeing a lot of ballots that are pretty hard to defend from a Centennial perspective...

It's the name...vote for the name!

[Nosey Ned]

Note - there is a weekly poll using my handle. I did not enter that poll. Not sure how that's possible but clearly someone is trying to make a mockery of this forum.

My guess it's end of the bench player that has no social life and finds his kicks Trolling this Forum

We all should know the Troll by now.

[FanLax Computer]

I also don't have Swarthmore. Have them at #28. Good wins but their loss to Vassar didn't help them.

1 Tufts
2 Christopher Newport
3 Salisbury
4 Middlebury
5 Gettysburg
6 RIT
7 Amherst
8 Lynchburg
9 Union
10 St. Lawrence
11 Washington and Lee
12 Clarkson
13 Denison
14 Dickinson
15 Bowdoin
16 Kenyon
17 Stevens
18 Wooster
19 Cabrini
20 Ithaca
21 Ursinus
22 Muhlenberg
23 York
24 Williams
25 Cortland

[HomerCoach]

I also don't have Swarthmore. Have them at #28. Good wins but their loss to Vassar didn't help them.

1 Tufts
2 Christopher Newport
3 Salisbury
4 Middlebury
5 Gettysburg
6 RIT
7 Amherst
8 Lynchburg
9 Union
10 St. Lawrence
11 Washington and Lee
12 Clarkson
13 Denison
14 Dickinson
15 Bowdoin
16 Kenyon
17 Stevens
18 Wooster
19 Cabrini
20 Ithaca
21 Ursinus
22 Muhlenberg
23 York
24 Williams
25 Cortland

Computer probably can't recognize an away game in 3 inches of snow

[FanLax Computer]

Computer probably can't recognize an away game in 3 inches of snow

That is correct. I also cannot recognize when a team's top player is missing, game played indoors, and other similar excuses for Ws and Ls. All I see is Ws and Ls and that's all anyone should see when it comes to evaluating squads.