NE Region General Questions

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

At-large: my guess right now:
- Williams
- Babson
- E. Connecticut

Then it will be WPI or Springfield - probably not both and no one else.

[pjunito]

I agree with Dave's assestment.

Interesting to see how the regional and selection committee view Springfield win over Babson (NE 3) when considering those two teams.

[Hugenerd]

If they arent adjacent to eachother in the rankings, I dont think it will matter.  So they would have to drop them 3 spots, even though everyone in between Babson and Springfiled also lost.

[Titan Q]

At-large: my guess right now:
- Williams
- Babson
- E. Connecticut

Then it will be WPI or Springfield - probably not both and no one else.

I have WPI in pretty comfortably, and Springfield as team #20.

http://www.d3boards.com/index.php?topic=4232.msg1584769#msg1584769

[National Sports Rankings]

I've put together some advanced team and player stats for 62 teams participating in this year's NCAA tournament. They are here:

http://www.nationalsportsrankings.com/1314division3

The team stats will show the four factors, pace of play, different shooting pct's, and much more. The player stats show usage, efg%, scoring distribution, various other player metrics and much more.

I thought some may be interested. I did the best I could getting the most recent statistics to calculate all the numbers.

[WPI89]

+1

A huge amount of data.  Not familiar with many of the acronyms.  Will study your glossary of terms tonight and try to digest.

thanks for the effort!

[National Sports Rankings]

Thanks. If there is a certain team or teams you may have an interest in I can give you my opinion of the team based on the stats. (Or at least what the stats seem to be saying)

I think EFG% is important. It factors 3 pointers into the shooting pct. You'd also like the team to have a lower turnover pct on off than defense. A higher offensive rebound rate than their opponent and a higher free throw rate.

Certain teams that are guard oriented will have a low offensive turnover rate and a high defensive turnover rate (meaning they are forcing more than they turn it over). However being undersized they will most likely have a lower margin when comparing their offensive rebounding rates.

Teams that rely heavily on guards and forwards will usually have a lesser turnover rate and a higher offensive rebounding % difference and a higher free throw rate.

It is a lot to digest. I'll eventually trim it down some once I'm comfortable with the stats that I really think are showing what's happening on the court.

[National Sports Rankings]

I've put together a 1 click advanced stat page, with an auto-generated scouting report, for every D3 team. (Using last year's stats)

http://nationalsportsrankings.com/index.php?option=com_teamplayer

Once you click a teams name you'll get team and player stats/ratings. Below that is a "scouting report" that is generated solely on each players season numbers.

I thought some would be interested.

[mdsgoheels]

On my way to NYC for the 4th annual D3 tournament at Rucker Park. September 6th & 7th (ALL DAY)
Team playing this year:
Brooklyn College
Husson University
Kean University
Purchase College
Springfield College
University of Maine at Farmington
Western Connecticut State University
Bard College
Hunter College
Immaculata University
Lancaster Bible College
Sage College of Albany
St. John Fisher College
University of Southern Maine

[National Sports Rankings]

I've created advanced stat pages for NCAA Basketball teams. Here's a sample team from this year to look at: Wesleyan (CT)

http://nationalsportsrankings.com/index.php?option=com_teamplayer&task=load_magic&magic=8308

To see all of last year's D3 teams go here and select 2013 and Mens NCAA:

http://nationalsportsrankings.com/index.php?option=com_teamplayer

I'm still inquiring about access to all of the teams stats to do these reports but so far I'm finding little help.

I don't mind adding some D3 teams each week, until the end of the season, if people are interested in a certain teams stats to look at. I'll update 10 or so a week based on user feedback.

If anyone is interested in seeing a team post the team and I'll create the page.

It's the best I can do until I can gain access to a stat feed to run my reports. Doing it manually takes way too long for just 1 team to run every team right now.

Comments, questions, thoughts are welcome.

[WPI89]

WOW - lots of work.  Thanks for doing this.  Would love to see WPI and I am sure you would get a ton of interest from the very active NESCAC posters if you did any of the top NESCAC teams.

Where are you looking to gets 'stat feeds" from.  The powers that be here on the board or directly from the schools?

[National Sports Rankings]

WOW - lots of work.  Thanks for doing this.  Would love to see WPI and I am sure you would get a ton of interest from the very active NESCAC posters if you did any of the top NESCAC teams.

Where are you looking to gets 'stat feeds" from.  The powers that be here on the board or directly from the schools?

Thanks. I've just added WPI. The teams are listed alphabetically so they are near the bottom of the main page here:

http://nationalsportsrankings.com/index.php?option=com_teamplayer

I've contacted a bunch of websites, coaches, the NCAA, and stat companies. So far I've received little or no help with adding D3 teams/acquiring the stats. (Either working with another company or purchasing them) I haven't had any success other than adding them myself team by team. Which is impossible to update on a daily basis.

I'm hoping through this forum I can make a few contacts to maybe help with the project going forward. That is if enough people are interested in the team reports.

Check out WPI. I'm always interested in comparing the numbers to people who've actually watched these teams and have their own opinions on the players.

[WPI89]

Top 10 Northeast heading into 2015:

1)  Albertus Magnus
2)  WPI
3)  Western CT
4)  Middlebury
5)  Babson
6)  Williams
7)  Eastern CT
8)  Keene ST
9)  Wesleyan/Hamilton
10  Trinity/Bates

I do not have any idea how to separate the NESCAC log jam at this point?  Every confidence that Amherst will be back near the top of the heap after league play but can't put them there right now.  Also - I struggled some with - "what I think the team is" vs. "what their accomplishments have been" thus far.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

I think there is nothing on paper or elsewhere to put AMC at #1. They lost to Richard Stockton who was overrated at #4 who barely survived Lynchburg and needed a chaotic recovery to not get blown out by F&M. I also don't see anything about Western CT to makes me want to put them that high. Babson continues to prove themselves as WPI has as well. Not sure why you left Amherst off the list, despite some close games, they are getting the job done.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Magnus is one of the best teams I've seen this year.  I watched them play Stockton.  AMC was clearly the better team, even though they played poorly on the day.  Stockton is now missing a PG - not sure how much that had to do with this weekend, but I also think F&M and Lynchburg are pretty good teams.  I also saw WPI the next weekend in the Hoopsville tournament.  They're good, sure, but they weren't better than either AMC or Stockton.  They may be better coached or perform better on a given night.  I'm so glad we actually have a tournament to work these things out.

If I'm ranking now, based on what I think I can expect from these teams in the moment:

1. Albertus
2. Babson
3. WPI
4. E Conn
5. W Conn
6. Bates

After that, Middlebury, Amherst, Johnson & Wales, and Husson in some order.

The NESCAC teams are going to be able to prove themselves over the course of their season and all that, but right now there's nothing on paper for any of them.