Directors Cup

[Mr. Ypsi]

NOTE that I did NOT tabulate anywhere near all the schools.  In my judgement, it is highly unlikely that any other school would place higher than 16th or 17th in each gender, or higher than 24th overall, but if anyone has any likely candidates, let me know and I'll check them out.

[Ralph Turner]

Earlier than I feared, here is the first (annual?):

                               YPSI CUP

  WOMEN

1.  WashU         461.9
2.  Amherst       445.8
3.  Williams        408.3
4.  Midd            402.9
5.  Tufts           379.1
6.  Emory          361.5
7.  JHU             319.7
8.  IWU             308.9
9.  Ithaca          305.8
10  UWEC          271.3
11  Cortland       271.2
12  Wartburg      250.8
t13  St. Thomas  246.6
t13  Salisbury     246/6
15  CMS            242.5
16  New Jersey   225.9
17  UWW           223.2
t18  Messiah      219.3
t18  MIT            219.3
20  Bowdoin       214.9


      MEN

1.  UWW            374.1
2.  WashU          317.9
3.  NCC              308.1
4.  Midd             294.7
5.  St. Thomas    291.7
6.  Amherst        242.9
7.  CMS             227.1
8.  Bowdoin        219
9.  Calvin           214.7
10  MIT             211
11  CNU             210.9
12  UWOsh         210.5
13  UWLaX         209.1
14  IWU             191.3
15  Emory           184.9
16  Cortland        182.8
17  Williams         176.6
18  JHU              164.8
19  Salisbury       164.7
20  Wabash         161.2


   TOTAL

1.  WashU            779.8
2.  Midd               697.6
3.  Amherst          688.7
4.  UWW              597.3
5.  Williams           585
6.  Emory             546.4
7.  St. Thomas      538.3
8.  Tufts              531.8
9.  IWU                500.2
10  JHU                484.5
11  CMS               469.6
12  Cortland          454
13  Bowdoin           433.9
14  MIT                 430.3
15  Calvin              413.2
16  Ithaca             412.7
17  Salisbury          411.3
18  UWEC              390.9
19  CNU                 383.2
20  OWOsh             366.2
21  NCC                 359.1
22  Messiah            350.4
23  Wartburg           342.1
24  Rowan              340.8
25  New Jersey        313.4
26  UMU                 306.3
27  Springfield         303.9

Rank Conference Institution Final
1 NESCAC Middlebury (Vt.) 1040.75
2 UAA Washington University (Mo.) 980.25
3 NESCAC Williams (Mass.) 964.50
4 NESCAC Amherst (Mass.) 950.75
5 WIAC Wisconsin Whitewater 815.50
6 UAA Emory (Ga.) 727.00
7 NESCAC Tufts (Mass.) 724.75
8 MIAC St. Thomas (Minn.) 720.25
9 Centennial Johns Hopkins (Md.) 714.25
10 SUNYAC Cortland State (N.Y.) 673.50
11 NEWMAC Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. 659.25
12 CCIW Illinois Wesleyan 651.25
13 Capital Athletic Conference Salisbury (Md.) 643.00
14 SCIAC Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (Calif.) 610.50
15 WIAC Wisconsin Eau Claire 605.75
16 NESCAC Bowdoin (Maine) 594.00
17 WIAC Wisconsin Oshkosh 583.50
18 IIAC Wartburg (Iowa) 576.75
19 Empire 8 Ithaca (N.Y.) 570.00
20 NJAC New Jersey, College of 555.00
21 NEWMAC Springfield (Mass.) 547.25
22 CCIW North Central (Ill.) 523.00
23 USA South Christopher Newport (Va.) 485.00
24 MIAA Calvin (Mich.) 483.50
25 OAC Mount Union (Ohio) 480.25
26 NJAC Rowan (N.J.) 471.50
27 Middle Atlantic Conferences Messiah (Pa.) 466.00
28 WIAC Wisconsin La Crosse 461.25
29 OAC Ohio Northern 456.00
30 CCIW Carthage (Wis.) 447.75
31 WIAC Wisconsin Stevens Point 443.25
32 IIAC Coe (Iowa) 441.50
33 North Coast Denison (Ohio) 435.50
34 SCAC Trinity (Tex.) 422.00
35 SCIAC Redlands (Calif.) 417.00
36 Liberty League Skidmore (N.Y.) 409.50
37 USA South Methodist (N.C.) 406.50
38 UAA Chicago (Ill.) 405.00
39 MIAC Gustavus Adolphus (Minn.) 395.75
40 Empire 8 Stevens Institute of Tech. (N.J.) 384.50
41 MIAC St. Olaf (Minn.) 382.50

[Ralph Turner]

Thanks for the work. It is interesting.

[NCF]

Yes, thank-you! I like the NCC men's rank. The women need to pick it up. If I remember correctly the only contributers on the women's side are the cc and two track teams. Hope you enjoyed doing this. +K

[Gregory Sager]

Thanks, Chuck.

I was not as interested in what transpired at the top as much as what happened in the middle. Specifically, I wanted to see if North Park improved from a three-way tie for 229th, as I suspected that NPU's berth in the tourneys of two high-participant sports (men's soccer and baseball) as two of its' three points sources might lead to an improvement in the Ypsi Cup over what the Park had achieved in the Directors' Cup. Secondly, I wanted to see how the Ypsi Cup scoring broke up the massive sixteen-school logjam for 196th place that was one of the biggest ties in the Directors' Cup standings.

Here's how it came out, with the Directors' Cup standing, school name, and points total listed first, and the Ypsi Cup relative rank, school name, and points total listed second. Note that I don't actually have places for the Ypsi Cup, as that would entail calculating the scores of all of the schools above and below the schools listed:

DC Rank	School	DCPts	School	Ypsi Pts
196	Alma	75.00	William Paterson	75.00
196	Aurora	75.00	Maryville	74.48
196	Chapman	75.00	Randolph-Macon	73.95
196	Concordia TX	75.00	Hardin-Simmons	73.58
196	Drew	75.00	Chapman	73.40
196	Elms	75.00	Emanuel	73.00
196	Gwynedd-Mercy	75.00	Mount St. Mary	71.68
196	Hardin-Simmons	75.00	Alma	71.35
196	LaRoche	75.00	Concordia TX	70.40
196	Maryville	75.00	LaRoche	70.40
196	Mt. St. Mary	75.00	Aurora	69.95
196	New England	75.00	Shenandoah	69.95
196	Puget Sound	75.00	Randolph	62.59
196	Randolph-Macon	75.00	Drew	62.40
196	Shenandoah	75.00	New England	59.25
196	William Paterson	75.00	Brockport State	58.65
212	Emanuel	73.00	Manhattanville	56.45
213	Brockport State	70.50	Gwynedd-Marcy	55.83
214	Manhattanville	70.00	Elms	52.95
215	Sewanee	69.50	Rochester	51.66
216	Olivet	68.00	Puget Sound	50.94
217	Lehman	64.00	North Carolina Wesleyan	50.82
217	North Carolina Wesleyan	64.00	North Park	50.47
217	Randolph	64.00	Roger Williams	49.03
220	Greensboro	63.75	Simpson	48.77
221	Simpson	62.00	Lehman	47.16
222	Hamilton	61.50	Greensboro	45.33
223	Cornell	60.50	PSU-Harrisburg	38.34
224	Elmira	60.00	LaGrange	36.97
224	Wentworth	60.00	Sewanee	36.62
226	Colby-Sawyer	59.00	Hamilton	34.35
227	Concordia WI	58.00	Cornell	32.07
227	Plymouth State	58.00	Buena Vista	30.46
229	North Park	55.00	Concordia WI	26.91
229	Rochester	55.00	Colby-Sawyer	24.48
229	Roger Williams	55.00	Goucher	23.00
232	Goucher	53.00	Olivet	21.79
233	LaGrange	52.00	Elmira	10.32
234	PSU-Harrisburg	51.00	Wentworth	10.32
235	Buena Vista	50.50	Plymouth State	9.98

In all likelihood, NPU would jump 11 places to 218th.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Greg, I'm impressed!  (Fortunately you had a lot fewer scores to work with - the schools at the top had generally placed in at least 10-12 sports across all 3 seasons.  Though I was surprised to find - at least with having dropped all sports with fewer than 40 participating schools - that the Amherst women were the ONLY group where I had to drop a sport to keep to the maximum of 9 [wouldn't have changed any rankings; they lost 2.8 points for women's ice hockey].)

[Ralph Turner]

Greg, thanks for your work as well.

I want to propose that we would see compression of the standings at this point. Your logjam at 196 might actually move higher in the standings. We saw Plymouth St drop dramatically.  The "Participation Ratio" discount at this level is not as dramatic for the schools in this level. They are earning the points in the big 4-5(Hoops/Soccer/ XC/ WVB/SB-BB) and adding a few more points from the FB/Tennis/Golf/T&F/LAX/Swim&Diving middle range group of 5-6 sports.

I think that there will be several schools that fall below the "196 group" in the Directors Cup standings, just because they may have racked up points in the "minor sports".

There was very little re-arranging of the deck chairs overall, but I like the outcome even better.

[Gregory Sager]

Greg, thanks for your work as well.

I want to propose that we would see compression of the standings at this point. Your logjam at 196 might actually move higher in the standings. We saw Plymouth St drop dramatically.  The "Participation Ratio" discount at this level is not as dramatic for the schools in this level. They are earning the points in the big 4-5(Hoops/Soccer/ XC/ WVB/SB-BB) and adding a few more points from the FB/Tennis/Golf/T&F/LAX/Swim&Diving middle range group of 5-6 sports.

I think that there will be several schools that fall below the "196 group" in the Directors Cup standings, just because they may have racked up points in the "minor sports".

There was very little re-arranging of the deck chairs overall, but I like the outcome even better.

Ditto.

North Park is an example of a school that stands to gain every year from the switch to a Participation Ratio, because nine of NPU's 17 varsity sports have a PR over .9, and only one of the 17 (women's rowing) is below .5 -- and women's rowing is a sport in which it's unlikely that NPU will ever be nationally successful, given the northeastern-dominant nature of the sport.

[sunny]

Greg, thanks for your work as well.

I want to propose that we would see compression of the standings at this point. Your logjam at 196 might actually move higher in the standings. We saw Plymouth St drop dramatically.  The "Participation Ratio" discount at this level is not as dramatic for the schools in this level. They are earning the points in the big 4-5(Hoops/Soccer/ XC/ WVB/SB-BB) and adding a few more points from the FB/Tennis/Golf/T&F/LAX/Swim&Diving middle range group of 5-6 sports.

I think that there will be several schools that fall below the "196 group" in the Directors Cup standings, just because they may have racked up points in the "minor sports".

There was very little re-arranging of the deck chairs overall, but I like the outcome even better.

Ditto.

North Park is an example of a school that stands to gain every year from the switch to a Participation Ratio, because nine of NPU's 17 varsity sports have a PR over .9, and only one of the 17 (women's rowing) is below .5 -- and women's rowing is a sport in which it's unlikely that NPU will ever be nationally successful, given the northeastern-dominant nature of the sport.

Well, for rowing purposes, North Park is a Mid-Atlantic school -- as is Marietta, who repped the Mid-Atlantic at NCAAs this year. But your point is still valid.   

[Mr. Ypsi]

Greg, thanks for your work as well.

I want to propose that we would see compression of the standings at this point. Your logjam at 196 might actually move higher in the standings. We saw Plymouth St drop dramatically.  The "Participation Ratio" discount at this level is not as dramatic for the schools in this level. They are earning the points in the big 4-5(Hoops/Soccer/ XC/ WVB/SB-BB) and adding a few more points from the FB/Tennis/Golf/T&F/LAX/Swim&Diving middle range group of 5-6 sports.

I think that there will be several schools that fall below the "196 group" in the Directors Cup standings, just because they may have racked up points in the "minor sports".

There was very little re-arranging of the deck chairs overall, but I like the outcome even better.

Ditto.

North Park is an example of a school that stands to gain every year from the switch to a Participation Ratio, because nine of NPU's 17 varsity sports have a PR over .9, and only one of the 17 (women's rowing) is below .5 -- and women's rowing is a sport in which it's unlikely that NPU will ever be nationally successful, given the northeastern-dominant nature of the sport.

Well, for rowing purposes, North Park is a Mid-Atlantic school -- as is Marietta, who repped the Mid-Atlantic at NCAAs this year. But your point is still valid.   

In the CCIW, we sometimes jokingly refer to Augustana as the River (or West) Vikings, and North Park as the Lake (or East) Vikings - should Lake be changed to Ocean?!

[Mr. Ypsi]

I ran four more schools; slight changes:

          REVISED YPSI CUP

  WOMEN

1.  WashU         461.9
2.  Amherst       445.8
3.  Williams        408.3
4.  Midd            402.9
5.  Tufts           379.1
6.  Emory          361.5
7.  JHU             319.7
8.  IWU             308.9
9.  Ithaca          305.8
10  UWEC          271.3
11  Cortland       271.2
12  Wartburg      250.8
t13  St. Thomas  246.6
t13  Salisbury     246/6
15  CMS            242.5
16  ONU            233.9
17  New Jersey   225.9
18  UWW           223.2
19  Carthage      220.1
t20  Messiah      219.3
t20  MIT            219.3


      MEN

1.  UWW            374.1
2.  WashU          317.9
3.  NCC              308.1
4.  Midd             294.7
5.  St. Thomas    291.7
6.  Amherst        242.9
7.  CMS             227.1
8.  Bowdoin        219
9.  Calvin           214.7
10  MIT             211
11  CNU             210.9
12  UWOsh         210.5
13  UWLaX         209.1
14  IWU             191.3
15  Emory           184.9
16  Cortland        182.8
17  Williams         176.6
18  JHU              164.8
19  Salisbury       164.7
20  Wabash         161.2


   TOTAL

1.  WashU            779.8
2.  Midd               697.6
3.  Amherst          688.7
4.  UWW              597.3
5.  Williams           585
6.  Emory             546.4
7.  St. Thomas      538.3
8.  Tufts              531.8
9.  IWU                500.2
10  JHU                484.5
11  CMS               469.6
12  Cortland          454
13  Bowdoin           433.9
14  MIT                 430.3
15  Calvin              413.2
16  Ithaca             412.7
17  Salisbury          411.3
18  UWEC              390.9
19  CNU                 383.2
20  OWOsh             366.2
21  NCC                 359.1
22  Messiah            350.4
23  Wartburg           342.1
24  Rowan              340.8
25  ONU                 340.6

I have shortened the lists slightly, and am now reasonably confident they do reflect the top finishers in each category.

(An aside: I commented earlier that the Amherst women were the only category that had a sport cut due to the maximum 9 sports per gender.  It didn't cost them here, since women's ice hockey only got them 2.8 PR points.  But, unless someone scored on the <40 schools sports than I omitted, it DID cost them third place in the DC to arch-rival Williams, since non-PR it was 25 points!)

[Mr. Ypsi]

Lest anyone pull out their hair looking for the changes: for the women, ONU enters at 16th and Carthage at 19th; no change for the men; ONU enters at 25th for overall.

I also checked out UWSP and Coe, but neither came particularly close to entering the lists.  Going any further down the DC overall list seemed pointless, unless someone is pretty sure a school not too much further down received nearly all their points from only one gender.

[Gregory Sager]

Greg, thanks for your work as well.

I want to propose that we would see compression of the standings at this point. Your logjam at 196 might actually move higher in the standings. We saw Plymouth St drop dramatically.  The "Participation Ratio" discount at this level is not as dramatic for the schools in this level. They are earning the points in the big 4-5(Hoops/Soccer/ XC/ WVB/SB-BB) and adding a few more points from the FB/Tennis/Golf/T&F/LAX/Swim&Diving middle range group of 5-6 sports.

I think that there will be several schools that fall below the "196 group" in the Directors Cup standings, just because they may have racked up points in the "minor sports".

There was very little re-arranging of the deck chairs overall, but I like the outcome even better.

Ditto.

North Park is an example of a school that stands to gain every year from the switch to a Participation Ratio, because nine of NPU's 17 varsity sports have a PR over .9, and only one of the 17 (women's rowing) is below .5 -- and women's rowing is a sport in which it's unlikely that NPU will ever be nationally successful, given the northeastern-dominant nature of the sport.

Well, for rowing purposes, North Park is a Mid-Atlantic school -- as is Marietta, who repped the Mid-Atlantic at NCAAs this year. But your point is still valid.   

In the CCIW, we sometimes jokingly refer to Augustana as the River (or West) Vikings, and North Park as the Lake (or East) Vikings - should Lake be changed to Ocean?!

You keep saying that Augustana is the River Vikings, yet Augustana doesn't have a river running through its' campus, and North Park does.

(OK, so the North Branch of the Chicago River is a sorry excuse for a river ... but it still counts. )

[Mr. Ypsi]

Greg, thanks for your work as well.

I want to propose that we would see compression of the standings at this point. Your logjam at 196 might actually move higher in the standings. We saw Plymouth St drop dramatically.  The "Participation Ratio" discount at this level is not as dramatic for the schools in this level. They are earning the points in the big 4-5(Hoops/Soccer/ XC/ WVB/SB-BB) and adding a few more points from the FB/Tennis/Golf/T&F/LAX/Swim&Diving middle range group of 5-6 sports.

I think that there will be several schools that fall below the "196 group" in the Directors Cup standings, just because they may have racked up points in the "minor sports".

There was very little re-arranging of the deck chairs overall, but I like the outcome even better.

Ditto.

North Park is an example of a school that stands to gain every year from the switch to a Participation Ratio, because nine of NPU's 17 varsity sports have a PR over .9, and only one of the 17 (women's rowing) is below .5 -- and women's rowing is a sport in which it's unlikely that NPU will ever be nationally successful, given the northeastern-dominant nature of the sport.

Well, for rowing purposes, North Park is a Mid-Atlantic school -- as is Marietta, who repped the Mid-Atlantic at NCAAs this year. But your point is still valid.   

In the CCIW, we sometimes jokingly refer to Augustana as the River (or West) Vikings, and North Park as the Lake (or East) Vikings - should Lake be changed to Ocean?!

You keep saying that Augustana is the River Vikings, yet Augustana doesn't have a river running through its' campus, and North Park does.

(OK, so the North Branch of the Chicago River is a sorry excuse for a river ... but it still counts. )

True, but Augie is near the 'Mighty Mississip' and North Park is near the largest lake entirely within the US.

[Gregory Sager]

Still, since NPU is on a river and Augie isn't, it's just easier to call North Park the Good Vikings and Augustana the Evil Vikings.