D3Boards.Com Soccer Top 20 Fan Poll

[jknezek]

Edited to add 7th voter

D3Boards.com Soccer Fan Poll Games as of 9/27/2021

National Top 20

Rank			School			Points			Voter Breakdown
1			Tufts			129			5 , 4 , 2 , 2 , 1 , 3 , 1
2			Washington and Lee			126			1 , 3 , 9 , 1 , 3 , 1 , 3
3			Messiah			124			3 , 6 , 1 , 6 , 3 , 2 , 2
4			Trinity (Texas)			116			2 , 2 , 3 , 5 , 7 , 7 , 5
5			Ohio Wesleyan			104			4 , 7 , 4 , 7 , 4 , 12 , 5
6			Oneonta State			97			7 , 5 , 5 , 8 , 6 , 8 , 11
7			Middlebury			96			6 , 1 , 7 , 4 , 6 , 6
8			Johns Hopkins			87			8 , 8 , 13 , 12 , 5 , 12 , 2
9			Amherst			62			11 , 11 , 6 , 4 , 11
10			New York University			59			10 , 16 , 8 , 13 , 8 , 12
11			Calvin			56			9 , 12 , 10 , 9 , 9
12			Montclair State			51			13 , 15 , 20 , 17 , 10 , 14 , 7
13			Otterbein			48			11 , 10 , 16 , 14 , 18 , 15 , 15
14			Rochester			42			14 , 20 , 11 , 15 , 11 , 13
15			North Central (Ill.)			34			9 , 10 , 10
16			Franklin and Marshall			29			15 , 12 , 18 , 17 , 14
T17			Claremont-Mudd-Scripps			27			18 , 13 , 17 , 9
T17			Cortland State			27			12 , 14 , 19 , 19 , 16 , 19
19			Hope			18			20 , 15 , 15 , 16
20			Carthage			14			9 , 19

Also Receiving Votes:
Coast Guard (12) , Chicago (11) , Emory (11) , Washington U. (11) , Rowan (10) , Randolph (8) , St. Mary's (Md.) (7) , Augsburg (6) , Eastern (4) , Redlands (4) , Kenyon (3) , St. Olaf (3) , Wheaton (Ill.) (2) , Pacific Lutheran (1) , Wilmington (1)

1 = 1st Place Vote, 7 = 7th Place Vote in Voter Breakdown
Special Thanks to the Voters: Gregory Sager, Ejay, SimpleCoach, College Soccer Observer, D4_Pace, PaulNewman, D3_Slack

[SimpleCoach]

And special thanks to @jknezek for putting it all together.

[jknezek]

And we have a surprise 8th voter. So rather than edit the poll up top, I'll just drop this one down here. Next week I'm holding to my deadlines....

D3Boards.com Soccer Fan Poll Games as of 9/27/2021

National Top 20

Rank			School			Points			Voter Breakdown
1			Tufts			148			5 , 4 , 2 , 2 , 1 , 3 , 1 , 2
2			Washington and Lee			146			1 , 3 , 9 , 1 , 3 , 1 , 3 , 1
3			Messiah			141			3 , 6 , 1 , 6 , 3 , 2 , 2 , 4
4			Trinity (Texas)			132			2 , 2 , 3 , 5 , 7 , 7 , 5 , 5
5			Ohio Wesleyan			117			4 , 7 , 4 , 7 , 4 , 12 , 5 , 8
6			Middlebury			114			6 , 1 , 7 , 4 , 6 , 6 , 3
7			Oneonta State			112			7 , 5 , 5 , 8 , 6 , 8 , 11 , 6
8			Johns Hopkins			100			8 , 8 , 13 , 12 , 5 , 12 , 2 , 8
9			New York University			70			10 , 16 , 8 , 13 , 8 , 12 , 10
10			Calvin			68			9 , 12 , 10 , 9 , 9 , 9
11			Amherst			66			11 , 11 , 6 , 4 , 11 , 17
T12			Montclair State			57			13 , 15 , 20 , 17 , 10 , 14 , 7 , 15
T12			Otterbein			57			11 , 10 , 16 , 14 , 18 , 15 , 15 , 12
14			Rochester			45			14 , 20 , 11 , 15 , 11 , 13 , 18
15			Cortland State			37			12 , 14 , 19 , 19 , 16 , 19 , 11
T16			Claremont-Mudd-Scripps			34			18 , 13 , 17 , 9 , 14
T16			North Central (Ill.)			34			9 , 10 , 10
18			Franklin and Marshall			29			15 , 12 , 18 , 17 , 14
T19			Carthage			19			9 , 19 , 16
T19			Emory			19			10 , 13

Also Receiving Votes:
Hope (18) , Chicago (12) , Coast Guard (12) , Washington U. (11) , Rowan (10) , Randolph (8) , St. Mary's (Md.) (7) , Augsburg (6) , Eastern (4) , Redlands (4) , Kenyon (3) , St. Olaf (3) , Gustavus Adolphus (2) , Wheaton (Ill.) (2) , Pacific Lutheran (1) , Wilmington (1)

1 = 1st Place Vote, 20 = 20th Place Vote in Voter Breakdown
Special Thanks to the Voters: Gregory Sager, Ejay, SimpleCoach, College Soccer Observer, D4_Pace, PaulNewman, D3_Slack, FBALLISLIFE

[jknezek]

Some things to note.

1) Clear tiers at the top. 1-4 and 5-8 are way out in front.

2) Middlebury has the widest dispersion. #1 on 1 ballot, unranked on another. You can't get wider than that!

3) W&L has half the #1 votes, but still ranks second with the lowest vote of the 4 teams in the top tier (9th)

4) The bottom of the poll is a muddle. There are 16 teams in the ARV category. That's almost as many as in the entire poll.

5) Hope, Chicago, and Coast Guard all show up on 4 ballots but can't crack a poll spot above teams like NCC with 3 ballots, Carthage (3 ballots), and Emory (2 ballots).

[d4_Pace]

First off, this is great thanks for setting this up.
Second, I love the NESCAC but in no world is Middlebury the best team in the country with a win over Bowdoin their only significant result. That being said it is interesting to see everyone's different opinions.

[Centennial1]

Great job jknezek et al!

[Ron Boerger]

Thank you voters, and thank you jknezek for setting this up!

[D3_Slack]

Great slate of games today and great to see the season turn to conference play.  Will really start to bring greater clarity to who the top teams are.  Still so much out of conference wins that are inflating some, and deflating other rankings.  In my view this weekend is when things start to really get interesting.

[jknezek]

D3Boards.com Soccer Fan Poll Games as of 10/4/2021

National Top 20

Rank			School			Points			Voter Breakdown
T1			Tufts (2)			168			5 , 2 , 2 , 2 , 1 , 3 , 1 , 2 , 3
T1			Washington and Lee (5)			168			1 , 1 , 6 , 1 , 4 , 1 , 4 , 1 , 2
3			Messiah (2)			167			3 , 4 , 1 , 3 , 3 , 2 , 2 , 3 , 1
4			Ohio Wesleyan			144			4 , 7 , 4 , 4 , 6 , 5 , 5 , 5 , 5
5			Trinity (TX)			141			2 , 3 , 3 , 12 , 10 , 7 , 3 , 4 , 4
6			Johns Hopkins			123			6 , 6 , 8 , 10 , 5 , 10 , 9 , 6 , 6
7			Amherst			115			20 , 8 , 10 , 5 , 2 , 4 , 7 , 11 , 7
8			Oneonta State			114			7 , 5 , 5 , 9 , 7 , 9 , 12 , 12 , 9
9			New York University			108			8 , 13 , 18 , 7 , 8 , 6 , 6 , 7 , 8
10			Montclair State			81			9 , 9 , 19 , 17 , 11 , 11 , 8 , 14 , 10
11			Washington University			77			13 , 11 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 18 , 14 , 11
12			Emory			65			17 , 6 , 12 , 8 , 15 , 9 , 15
13			Cortland State			63			10 , 10 , 15 , 19 , 15 , 16 , 8 , 12
14			Otterbein			60			11 , 12 , 14 , 16 , 20 , 11 , 10 , 14
15			Franklin and Marshall			53			15 , 14 , 14 , 13 , 12 , 13 , 13
16			Claremont-Mudd-Scripps			43			18 , 16 , 13 , 17 , 13 , 16 , 13 , 19
T17			Calvin			38			14 , 11 , 15 , 19 , 18 , 15 , 17
T17			North Central (IL)			38			15 , 9 , 20 , 10 , 18 , 16
19			Connecticut College			18			20 , 11 , 19 , 20 , 17
20			Middlebury			17			12 , 20 , 16 , 19

Also Receiving Votes:
Chicago (14) , RPI (14) , Lebanon Valley (9) , Rochester (8) , MIT (7) , Hope (6) , Rowan (6) , St. Olaf (6) , Gustavus Adolphus (5) , Redlands (5) , Pacific Lutheran (4) , Kenyon (3) , Dominican (2)

1 = 1st Place Vote, 20 = 20th Place Vote in Voter Breakdown

Special Thanks to the Voters: Gregory Sager, Ejay, SimpleCoach, College Soccer Observer, D4_Pace, PaulNewman, D3_Slack, FBALLISLIFE, Mid-Atlantic Fan

[jknezek]

Items of note:

1) A first place tie and third place is only 1 pt behind. It's a logjam at the top!
2) W&L has the most first place votes and the lowest vote in the first 3 teams
3) Messiah, in third place, actually has the highest votes from every voter. Their lowest is 4th, Tufts is 5th, W&L is 6th
4) Quite a drop off to Ohio Wesleyan and Trinity (TX) in 4/5 slots.
5) Ohio Wesleyan has significantly more consistency than Trinity (TX) from the voters
6) Washington U is the first team, at 11th, not to appear on all 9 ballots
7) Amherst has the widest spread, a 2 vote and a 20 vote
8) Middlebury took the largest tumble week to week, going from 6 to 20
9) Rochester and Carthage drop out
10) Connecticut College and Washington University jump in
11) Washington University debuting at 11 is the biggest jump.

[D3_Slack]

Once all the votes are collected how do you calculate the points each team gets?  Thank you.

[jknezek]

Once all the votes are collected how do you calculate the points each team gets?  Thank you.

1st spot on a ballot is worth 20 pts, 20th spot on a ballot is worth 1 pt. Sum up all the ballots for each team.

[jknezek]

10/12 posted Poll moved several messages down to fix formatting issues

Interesting things of note:

1) W&L takes over sole first place and widens the gap in the top 3, holding 6 of the 9 first place votes
2) Trinity (TX) is still a distant 4th from the top 3
3) Of teams appearing on all 9 ballots, Emory holds the biggest disparity with 2 7th place votes and a 20th
4) North Central has 3 votes in the top 10, and 2 no votes
5) The weeks big winner: Middlebury, who claws back 5 of the 14 places they lost last week
6) The weeks big loser: Oneonta State, who falls from 8th to the middle of the Also Receiving Votes teams


I'll fix the table formatting next week. Adding the weekly change column caused me to run out of space. Will lower the font sizes so it all fits on one line on full screen desktop. Not much I can do about mobile.

[PaulNewman]

I guess comments and reveals do make more sense of this thread.

My top 10 this week was...

1)   WASHINGTON & LEE
2)   MESSIAH
3)   TUFTS
4)   OWU
5)   TRINITY (TX)
6)   NYU
7)   EMORY
8)   JOHNS HOPKINS
9)   AMHERST
10)   MONTCLAIR ST

I dropped Oneonta, F&M, RPI, Cortland, and my fave Pac Lutheran (who lost once this past week, not twice as appeared for at least a while counting Puget Sound loss twice).

The teams making (or still making) the group poll that I didn't have in top 20 were Cortland, Midd, and Kenyon.

I moved Calvin back in at #17 after having them out.

Other differences group poll were I had New Paltz in at #14, C-M-S still in at #15 (previous week at #13 for me), and Redlands newly in at #18.

I finally conceded on North Central adding them in at #19.

Biggest snubs/misses in group poll imo was New Paltz not getting in, St Olaf barely squeezing in at #20 while I had the Oles at #11, and to a lesser degree Emory coming in at #12 while I had the Eagles at #7.

Interesting how some teams seem to hold their value.  Hard to budge Calvin even with four blemishes.  Chicago also pretty resilient.  C-M-S and RPI had I think a draw each and both are out.  Rowan dropped like a stone I think with one loss too.  If Otterbein lost or had couple more draws they'd be out.  It's partly schedule and value of certain results, but there's also a reputation factor as well.

Teams that were "last teams out" for me this week were in no particular order MIT, Kenyon, Midd, and North Park, along with Oneonta, Cortland, and few others who dropped out in last week or two.

Closer to home, if I was voting tonight Kenyon would jump to #11 or #12 and OWU would drop to #8 or #9.

[jknezek]

*** Repost to fix formatting issues

D3Boards.com Soccer Fan Poll Games as of 10/10/2021

National Top 20

Rank			School			Points			Weekly Change			Voter Breakdown
1			Washington and Lee (6)			174			0			1 , 1 , 5 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 2 , 1 , 2
2			Messiah (2)			169			1			3 , 2 , 1 , 3 , 2 , 2 , 4 , 2 , 1
3			Tufts (1)			160			-2			5 , 7 , 2 , 2 , 3 , 3 , 1 , 3 , 3
4			Trinity (TX)			145			1			2 , 3 , 4 , 11 , 8 , 5 , 3 , 4 , 4
5			Ohio Wesleyan			144			-1			4 , 5 , 3 , 4 , 6 , 4 , 9 , 5 , 5
6			Johns Hopkins			129			0			7 , 4 , 7 , 9 , 5 , 8 , 7 , 7 , 6
7			New York University			124			2			6 , 8 , 13 , 5 , 7 , 6 , 6 , 6 , 8
8			Amherst			112			-1			16 , 11 , 6 , 8 , 4 , 9 , 5 , 11 , 7
9			Washington University			92			2			13 , 12 , 11 , 6 , 9 , 12 , 12 , 12 , 10
10			Montclair State			88			0			8 , 6 , 15 , 15 , 10 , 10 , 18 , 10 , 9
11			Otterbein			83			3			9 , 14 , 12 , 13 , 11 , 16 , 10 , 8 , 13
12			Emory			73			0			12 , 16 , 18 , 7 , 20 , 7 , 15 , 9 , 12
13			North Central (IL)			58			4			9 , 8 , 17 , 19 , 8 , 17 , 11
14			Calvin			54			3			14 , 13 , 10 , 14 , 19 , 17 , 13 , 14
15			Middlebury			52			5			10 , 20 , 9 , 12 , 12 , 14 , 18
16			Connecticut College			37			3			15 , 19 , 10 , 16 , 13 , 16
T17			Chicago			29			---			11 , 14 , 16 , 20 , 16 , 20
T17			Cortland State			29			-4			19 , 14 , 13 , 14 , 16
T17			Kenyon			29			---			17 , 10 , 19 , 13 , 17
20			St. Olaf			20			---			15 , 19 , 11 , 19

Also Receiving Votes:
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (19) , Swarthmore (16) , MIT (12) , New Paltz State (10) , Oneonta State (7) , RPI (7) , Hope (4) , Randolph (4) , Redlands (4) , Franklin and Marshall (3) , Gustavus Adolphus (2) , North Park (1)

Newly Ranked: Chicago, Kenyon, St. Olaf
Dropped Out: Oneonta State (Prev:8), Franklin and Marshall (Prev:15), Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (Prev:16)

1 = 1st Place Vote, 20 = 20th Place Vote in Voter Breakdown
Special Thanks to the Voters: Gregory Sager, Ejay, SimpleCoach, College Soccer Observer, D4_Pace, PaulNewman, D3_Slack, FBALLISLIFE, Mid-Atlantic Fan