Matnum PI wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 4:03 pm
We should consider replacing Towson (CAA) and UMass (A10) with a Patriot, Big East, B1G, or Ivy Team. Not because Towson and UMass aren't good teams. They're good. The issue is their schedules. Both their schedules are far from perfect. The teams below may not be as good as Towson and/or UMass (though many are), but their schedules are more consistent with the rest of the NCAA Teams That Count within our league.
Michigan (B1G), Lehigh, BU, Colgate (Patriot), Dartmouth (Ivy), Providence (Big East) are prime candidates.
Michigan should be added for sure. Second add should be a Patriot league team.
Fading out UMass and Towson by making their roster and D undraftable gets scheduling resolved eventually, without going the forced drop route used before with compensation draft picks.
I know it’s easier to manage and makes secure mgt easier but only having 3 and change conferences makes this far less representative of college lacrosse. Maybe just to drive home the fantasy point.
Hey if everyone was bored and had bandwidth wonder what a non included team pool all star game would look like. North south game effectively which once was cool.
Matnum PI wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 8:09 am
In a typical NCAA game, 3 attackmen and 3 middies account for the lion's share of the teams goals. Occasionally a long stick, occasionally a 4th or 5th attackman and/or other middies. But the lion's share is 3 attackmen and 3 middies. Let's call it 80% of the goals. Conversely, 100% of the goals against happen as a direct result of a team's D. By definition. That being the case, yes. there's a slightly higher emphasis on team D than on team O but only slightly higher. What if, going forward, we started 4 As and 4 Ms (instead of 3 and 3) in order to try and better balance out the O vs. D?
Yes I’m just trying to address the emphasis in some way, especially on a position you pick new every year.. your players you keep for 3-4 often and they can have their season crushes every year by D…Maybe additional players would work, maybe lowering D score or maybe switch out teams to ensure they play similar attacks. All different angles, I just thought reducing the D influence by half points would be easiest and potentially best fix. It still make D really important but you don’t have moment that stake your whole season on it.
All interesting ideas, happy for any to be given a go, maybe a vote would be best.. failing that, just pick your fave idea Matt.
If it’s teams defo feels like Michigan and Lehigh are correct after they just made the NCAA tourney
Uklax wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 2:31 am
My other idea was do we make defense worth half a point per goal, meaning the max they can score is 5 and the lowest for 20 conceded would be minus 5, that way if your defense has a bad week, yes you get a bad score but the rest of you team can still bail you out with goals, like in real lacrosse. Currently defense has such a heavy bearing on score they can affect the whole team, whereas half point would still be positive or negative but maybe less extreme.
Would be an easy fix, keep defense relevant and maybe stop you having to swap out those teams.. who score well but so does O’Neill or kavanaugh or Brandau
Maybe put it to a vote, feel like more people would be in favour of this small change than more teams swaps?
Yale’s defense ruined my year……Yale’s offense covered for its defense…..I learned my lesson.
Uklax wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 2:31 am
My other idea was do we make defense worth half a point per goal, meaning the max they can score is 5 and the lowest for 20 conceded would be minus 5, that way if your defense has a bad week, yes you get a bad score but the rest of you team can still bail you out with goals, like in real lacrosse. Currently defense has such a heavy bearing on score they can affect the whole team, whereas half point would still be positive or negative but maybe less extreme.
Would be an easy fix, keep defense relevant and maybe stop you having to swap out those teams.. who score well but so does O’Neill or kavanaugh or Brandau
Maybe put it to a vote, feel like more people would be in favour of this small change than more teams swaps?
Yale’s defense ruined my year……Yale’s offense covered for its defense…..I learned my lesson.
Told ya. Shouldve learned from our mistake.
Conversely maybe this is the path to title glory. Have to endure a garbage D that puts up less of a fight than a kardashian in a NBA locker room.
Uklax wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 2:31 am
My other idea was do we make defense worth half a point per goal, meaning the max they can score is 5 and the lowest for 20 conceded would be minus 5, that way if your defense has a bad week, yes you get a bad score but the rest of you team can still bail you out with goals, like in real lacrosse. Currently defense has such a heavy bearing on score they can affect the whole team, whereas half point would still be positive or negative but maybe less extreme.
Would be an easy fix, keep defense relevant and maybe stop you having to swap out those teams.. who score well but so does O’Neill or kavanaugh or Brandau
Maybe put it to a vote, feel like more people would be in favour of this small change than more teams swaps?
Yale’s defense ruined my year……Yale’s offense covered for its defense…..I learned my lesson.
Told ya. Shouldve learned from our mistake.
Conversely maybe this is the path to title glory. Have to endure a garbage D that puts up less of a fight than a kardashian in a NBA locker room.
Uklax wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 2:31 am
My other idea was do we make defense worth half a point per goal, meaning the max they can score is 5 and the lowest for 20 conceded would be minus 5, that way if your defense has a bad week, yes you get a bad score but the rest of you team can still bail you out with goals, like in real lacrosse. Currently defense has such a heavy bearing on score they can affect the whole team, whereas half point would still be positive or negative but maybe less extreme.
Would be an easy fix, keep defense relevant and maybe stop you having to swap out those teams.. who score well but so does O’Neill or kavanaugh or Brandau
Maybe put it to a vote, feel like more people would be in favour of this small change than more teams swaps?
Yale’s defense ruined my year……Yale’s offense covered for its defense…..I learned my lesson.
Told ya. Shouldve learned from our mistake.
Conversely maybe this is the path to title glory. Have to endure a garbage D that puts up less of a fight than a kardashian in a NBA locker room.
I thought the defense would be better. It wasn’t.
Reversion to the mean play. I understand but the risk is catching a falling knife sometimes.
Funny thing is I thought after his FR year Fake was overrated but he really did make a difference in NDs title and Yales d has been atrocious for a while now
Uklax wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 2:31 am
My other idea was do we make defense worth half a point per goal, meaning the max they can score is 5 and the lowest for 20 conceded would be minus 5, that way if your defense has a bad week, yes you get a bad score but the rest of you team can still bail you out with goals, like in real lacrosse. Currently defense has such a heavy bearing on score they can affect the whole team, whereas half point would still be positive or negative but maybe less extreme.
Would be an easy fix, keep defense relevant and maybe stop you having to swap out those teams.. who score well but so does O’Neill or kavanaugh or Brandau
Maybe put it to a vote, feel like more people would be in favour of this small change than more teams swaps?
Uklax wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 2:31 am
My other idea was do we make defense worth half a point per goal, meaning the max they can score is 5 and the lowest for 20 conceded would be minus 5, that way if your defense has a bad week, yes you get a bad score but the rest of you team can still bail you out with goals, like in real lacrosse. Currently defense has such a heavy bearing on score they can affect the whole team, whereas half point would still be positive or negative but maybe less extreme.
Would be an easy fix, keep defense relevant and maybe stop you having to swap out those teams.. who score well but so does O’Neill or kavanaugh or Brandau
Maybe put it to a vote, feel like more people would be in favour of this small change than more teams swaps?
This option gets my vote! And, Roll Bos!!
Solid idea that introduces half point scoring for team totals
After watching yesterdays NCAA games, I'm reminded that a team's D, specifically, a team's goalie (and team's F/O guy) makes a huge difference. Much like our Team Ds. Seems unfair that one position is so important but the fact remains, it's important.
Can we have video for the top 50??? Maybe something along the lines of this east west bowl intro, except with the flavor of the lax bro IL best names mag...
Was there any resolution to the debate about new teams? Personally I think replacing UMass with Michigan is an obvious call, Towson has been a little more relevant but I’m still fine seeing them go. Not sure there is a second obvious addition though, I don’t think those patriot league teams would be any more fun to follow than Towson is (though I get that isn’t the main consideration haha). Dartmouth under Sean Kirwan look like they are about to get a lot better so I think it makes some sense to add them now. Can’t say the same for our other options. My 2 cents
This is the current rosters I have going into the 2025 season. DO NOT TRUST THE CLASS YEAR DESIGNATION WRITTEN WITHIN THIS ROSTER. Players red-shirt, still have a post-Covid extra year, etc. Do your homework to make sure that players that are labeled as GRADs (graduated) have actually graduated.
CalLaxDad
Jimmy Ayers SO A/M JHU
Max Sloat JR A/M Duke
Max Busenkell JR M Notre Dame
Nicholas DeMaio GRAD A Towson
Matt Waterhouse JR M Villanova
Aidan Carroll SR A Georgetown
Alex Vardaro GRAD M Georgetown
Kurt Bruun GRAD A OSU
Dylan Hess GRAD M Georgetown
Jordan Wray JR M Georgetown
Ryan Levy SR A/M UNC
Dylan Bauer GRAD A/M JHU
Dom Pietramala JR A UNC
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Joey Spallina JR A Syracuse
Nick Teretsky GRAD A Rutgers
Ben Locke GRAD A Brown
Robert Schain GRAD A UPenn
PJ Behan JR M Brown
Hugh Mullane SR M UPenn
Dewey Egan SR A/M UNC
Jake Morin GRAD A PSU
Reed Landin SR M Duke
Carter Castillo GRAD A UMass
Stephen Avery GRAD M Denver
Patrick Hackler GRAD M Yale
Ryan Colsey JR A/M UVA
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DU-Fan
Antonio DeMarco SR M North Carolina
Andrew Perry SR M Harvard
Kian McCarthy SO M Virginia
JJ Sillstrop GRAD A Denver
Tomas Delgado SO M Duke
Max Hewitt GRAD M Navy
Mic Kelly SR M Denver
Michael Lampert GRAD A Denver
Chris Jordan GRAD A PSU
Kyle Lehman SO A PSU
Nick Golini SO A Navy
Eric Malever GRAD A UMD
Gabriel Sorichetti SO A JHU
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Matt Licata GRAD A Villanova
Chris Kavanagh SR A Notre Dame
Tye Scott JR A Denver
Colin Kurdyla SO M Rutgers
Jacob Angelus GRAD A JHU
Adam Poitras GRAD A/M Loyola
Colin Kelly SR A Rutgers
Patrick McIntosh GRAD A UVA
Jackson Greene SO M Harvard
Eric Dobson GRAD M Notre Dame
Sam King GRAD A Harvard
Spencer Wirtheim GRAD A/M Cornell
Griffin King GRAD M Brown
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Alex Slusher GRAD A Duke
T.J. Haley GRAD A Georgetown
Shane Knobloch GRAD M Rutgers
Trey Deere SO A Syracuse
Sean Donnelly GRAD A PSU
Ben Mayer SR A OSU
Aiden Danenza GRAD M Duke
Carson Krammer SO M Princeton
Aidan Maguire JR M Duke
Sam English GRAD M Syracuse
Henry Caponiti JR A Georgetown
Ed Shean SR A OSU
Luke Raymond SR A Villanova
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Race Ripley JR A Navy
Daniel Maltz GRAD A UMD
Charles Balsamo JR A Duke
Sean Cameron SR M Princeton
Ben Scandone JR M Brown
Matt Lazzaro JR A PSU
Tucker Goodelle GRAD M Villanova
Nate Kabiri SO A Princeton
Quinn Krammer JR M Princeton
Matthew Cargiulo SO M UMass
Joey Kamish GRAD A Loyola
Jack McKenna SR A/M OSU
Evan Plunkett JR M Army
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Ben Smith SR A Upenn
Will Angrick SR M Notre Dame
Dante Kulas SR A Rutgers
Owen Duffy SO A UNC
Michael Weisshaar JR M Towson
Jack Speidell SO A Harvard
Larry Horning SO M Georgetown
Joaquin Villagomez JR A Towson
Griffin Scane JR M Penn
Ethan Long SR M Penn State
Johnny Keib SR A/M Yale
Mac Costin GRAD M Penn State
Seth Higgins GRAD M Loyola
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Greenielax
Jack Boyden GRAD A/M UVA
Truitt Sunderland JR A/M UVA
Cam Rubin GRAD A Penn
Matt Caputo JR A OSU
Patrick Crogan JR M Georgetown
Max Krevsky SR M Yale
Jack Flaherty JR M Navy
Josh Webber SR M Towson
Will McCulloch SR A Yale
Henry Haberman JR A Loyola
Jack Brennan GRAD A/M UMD
Jake Stevens GRAD M Syracuse
Luke Pisani SO M UVA
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Graham Bundy GRAD A/M Georgetown
Tynan Walsh SR A UPENN
Thomas McIntire GRAD A/M Villanova
Wills Burt SO M UVA
Christian Mule GRAD A Syracuse
Josh Zawada GRAD A Duke
Brennan O'Neill GRAD A Duke
Jordan Faison SO M Notre Dame
Reese Burek GRAD A Army
Brian Piatelli GRAD A Rutgers
Paul Johnson GRAD A Army
Brooks English JR M JHU
Matt McMillen JR M Upenn
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TJ Malone GRAD A PSU
John Sidorski GRAD M Rutgers
Brendan Grimes GRAD M JHU
Billy Barnds SR M Princeton
Jalen Seymour SR M Notre Dame
Marcus Wertheim JR M Brown
Miles Botkiss SR A/M Harvard
Thomas Greenblatt GRAD M OSU
Leo Johnson SR A Yale
Joey Terenzi JR M Virginia
AJ Nikolic SO M Cornell
Colm Barnett JR M Denver
Jack Ringhofer SR A Princeton
Lax1
Andrew McAdorey SR A/M Duke
James Shipley GRAD M Upenn
Chop Gallagher GRAD A/M Towson
Tommy Barnds GRAD M Princeton
Dyson Williams A GRAD Duke
Owen Murphy GRAD A/M Maryland
Andrew Preis SO M UNC
Michael Leo JR A/M Syracuse
Chris Lyons SR A Yale
Brad Sharp SR A/M Yale
Luke Murphy JR A Loyola
Teddy Malone JR A Harvard
Colin Burns SO A Princeton
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Jake Taylor GRAD A Notre Dame
Marek Tzagournis SO A Denver
Finn Thomson A/M JR Syracuse
McCabe Millon SO A UVA
Casey McDermott GRAD A JHU
Kyle Lewis GRAD M OSU
Tyler Cordes SR M Syracuse
Cooper Mueller SO M Princeton
Elijah Stobaugh SO M Maryland
Brett Gladstone GRAD M OSU
Mark Marino SO M Princeton
Stevie Finnell SO M Duke
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Matnum PI
Mike Long GRAD A Cornell
Daniel Kelly GRAD A/M UMD
Evan James GRAD A Loyola
Aidan McLane SR A Brown
Joe Dowling SR A Harvard
Ryan Schrier SO A Towson
Lance Tillman GRAD M UNC
Jack Koras GRAD M UMD
Owen Gaffney JR A/M Harvard
Jackson Birtwistle SR M Syracuse
Braden Erksa JR A UMD
Jack Petersen SO M Harvard
Thomas Gravino FR M UMD
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Griffin Schutz SR M UVA
Russell Melendez GRAD A JHU
Daniel DJ Clark SO M Denver
Willem Firth SO A/M Cornell
Kenan Everhart SO A Loyola
Davis Lindsey GRAD M Loyola
Stuart Phillips SR M JHU
Luke Rhoa JR M Syracuse
Brian Jackman A/M JR UMASS
Cody Malawsky JR A/M Denver
Logan Ip JR M Harvard
Jonathan Peshko GRAD M JHU
Xavier Arline GRAD A Navy
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Devon McLane GRAD A/M Notre Dame
Shane Murphy JR A Rutgers
Danny Caddigan SR A/M Cornell
Colin Michener JR A Villanova
Ryan Goldstein SO A Cornell
Jon Jarosz GRAD A NAVY
Hamish McPherson SO A Maryland
Jack Aimone GRAD M Rutgers
Leo Hoffman SO M UPenn
Hugh Kelleher GRAD M Cornell
Justin Queen SO M Navy
Cole Cashion SO M Yale
Shane O’Leary SR M Umass
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Marek Seaman SO M Loyola
Braedon Saris SR A Princeton
Dillon Magee JR M OSU
C.J. Kirst GRAD A Cornell
Tucker Kellogg SO M Syracuse
Aiden Blake GRAD M Cornell
Brock Behrman SO A Notre Dame
Carter Kempney JR M Syracuse
Payton Cormier GRAD A UVA
Johnny Schwarz SR M UNC
Ben Beacham SO M UPenn
Matt Collison JR M JHU
Noah Manning SR A Denver
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Zach Whittier JR M UMD
Owen Hiltz GRAD A Syracuse
Jack Pappendick JR A/M Duke
Brody Upton SO M Princeton
Pat Kavanagh GRAD A Notre Dame
Bailey O'Connor GRAD M Army
Peter Moynihan SO A/M Yale
Chad Palumbo JR A/M Princeton
Matt Minicus JR A Loyola
Mike Tobin GRAD A Umass
Jeffrey Ricciardelli SR A Notre Dame
Grayson McClements SO A UPenn
Grant Breyo GRAD M Umass
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Ross Scott GRAD A Rutgers
Richie Connell GRAD A Denver
Mac Haley JR A Navy
James Matan JR A UNC
Thomas Mencke JR A/M UVA
Hunter Chauvette SO A/M JHU
Ryan DiRocco SO A Army
Liam Matthews SO A/M PSU
Mason Reale GRAD M Villanova
Harry Wellford GRAD M UNC
Dane Swanson GRAD M Navy
Jack Kelly GRAD M Brown
Tucker Wade SO M PRN
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Jacob Todd SO M Princeton
Logan McGovern GRAD A UNC
Ryan Landolphi SO M Navy
Lukas Stanat GRAD M Princeton
Mason Bregman SR A UMass
Jacob Morin GRAD M Army
Gunnar Fellows JR A Army
Benn Johnston SO M Duke
Connor Shellenberger A GRAD UVA
Charles Kurtz SO A UMass
Coulter Mackesy SR A Princeton
Aidan Aitken JR M UMD
Koleton Marquis JR A JHU
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Gabe Furey GRAD A/M UPenn
Eric Spanos JR A/M UMD
Henry Tolker SR A Navy
Matt Brandau GRAD A Yale
Carson Kuhl SR M Yale
Matt Traynor SR A PSU
Gannon Matthews SR A OSU
Shuey Kelly SO A Georgetown
Matteo Corsi SR A/M Brown
John Dunphey JR M Princeton
Charlie Iler SO M JHU
Paul Garza JR M Navy
Garrett Degnon GRAD A JHU
We have a spreadsheet to track the top NCAA teams based on their National Ranking from 2005 through today (2024). The formula looks like this with T2 being 2024, S2 being 2023, R2 being 2022... B2 being 2005. We have this spreadsheet so we're judging the NCAA both analytically as well as historically with an obvious emphasis being given to more recent history than decade plus history.
Based on this formula, with the rankings plugged in for the 2024 season, these are the NCAA teams with scores of 200 or less:
Score, NCAA Team, F=Current Fantasy Team, Ranking
23.5 umd F 1
34.8 nd F 2
38.2 duke F 3
42.9 uva F 4
68.6 yale F 5
71.4 denver F 6
73.8 cornell F 7
75.2 syr F 8
77.2 jhu F 9
86.2 gtown F 10
86.4 unc F 11
91.4 pton F 12
101.2 loyola F 13
104.0 psu F 14
104.5 upenn F 15
117.0 army F 16
120.0 osu F 17
123.9 rutgers F 18
124.4 villanova F 19
128.0 Richmond - 20
147.5 tows F 21
153.6 harvard F 22
156.9 Michigan - 23
157.9 Boston U - 24
166.2 brown F 25
166.8 Utah - 26
168.5 umass F 27
169.9 lehigh - 28
173.9 navy F 29
175.7 albany - 30
192.0 delaware - 31
195.2 stj - 32
Based on our metrics, we're doing pretty well. In a perfect world, Richmond (or Michigan or BU) would be in, Navy (or UMass) would be out, but, for obvious and less obvious reasons, we avoid changing NCAA teams. Bottom-line, our current NCAA Teams that Count is pretty good. For now, for the 2025 Fantasy season, there'll be no changes in our NCAA teams.
Matnum PI wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2024 11:54 am
We have a spreadsheet to track the top NCAA teams based on their National Ranking from 2005 through today (2024). The formula looks like this with T2 being 2024, S2 being 2023, R2 being 2022... B2 being 2005. We have this spreadsheet so we're judging the NCAA both analytically as well as historically with an obvious emphasis being given to more recent history than decade plus history.
Based on this formula, with the rankings plugged in for the 2024 season, these are the NCAA teams with scores of 200 or less:
Score, NCAA Team, F=Current Fantasy Team, Ranking
23.5 umd F 1
34.8 nd F 2
38.2 duke F 3
42.9 uva F 4
68.6 yale F 5
71.4 denver F 6
73.8 cornell F 7
75.2 syr F 8
77.2 jhu F 9
86.2 gtown F 10
86.4 unc F 11
91.4 pton F 12
101.2 loyola F 13
104.0 psu F 14
104.5 upenn F 15
117.0 army F 16
120.0 osu F 17
123.9 rutgers F 18
124.4 villanova F 19
128.0 Richmond - 20
147.5 tows F 21
153.6 harvard F 22
156.9 Michigan - 23
157.9 Boston U - 24
166.2 brown F 25
166.8 Utah - 26
168.5 umass F 27
169.9 lehigh - 28
173.9 navy F 29
175.7 albany - 30
192.0 delaware - 31
195.2 stj - 32
Based on our metrics, we're doing pretty well. In a perfect world, Richmond (or Michigan or BU) would be in, Navy (or UMass) would be out, but, for obvious and less obvious reasons, we avoid changing NCAA teams. Bottom-line, our current NCAA Teams that Count is pretty good. For now, for the 2025 Fantasy season, there'll be no changes in our NCAA teams.
Dawg, the reigning champ is requesting the Hobart statesmen be included!
