NPI Rankings 2024

[Newenglander]

Mens field in D1 is 48, not 32.

thanks for the correction - point hasn't changed.

[Hopkins92]

With all of the NESCAC chatter aside... I come in praise of the NPI system!! And, yes, this is parochial, but a pretty good contrast... I posted this on an alumni FB page today. I cut some stuff explaining the NPI prior to this chunk:

Hopkins is actually a great example of how this plays out. Hopkins played #15 Babson in the first round last year, and was rewarded with that win by lining up against #3 in the country Middlebury. (Folks will remember the epic 4-3 OT thriller against the Beavers before going down with a fight to hosts Midd the next day (2-1).

By contrast, here's the NPI ranking of our pod: Hop (#9), W&L (#18), Otterbein (#52) and PSU-B (#212). So, yeah, I'm not great at math but I'll take a 197 spread in rankings from last year to this. 🙂

Waiting in a potential sweet 16 is Williams (#6 - out of the NESCAC, the SEC of d3 soccer), Cortland (#22 - always a very tough out), perennial power Messiah (#36) or Manhattanville (#132).  Nothing easy about any of the first three, but for the third round... fair enough.

[College Soccer Observer]

Per NCAA D3 Men Championships director with the NCAA here at the United Soccer Coaches Convention in Chicago, the dials for NPI settings are locked for the next two seasons and any changes would not apply until the 2027 season.

[SKUD]

Guess that means 3 more years of the NESCAC and a few other getting more bids than SC thinks any conference should and the friendly banter about it.

[College Soccer Observer]

The d3 Coaches meeting men's and women's combined.  There was a lot of pushback from coaches about the dials being set after coaches had already finalized schedules for this past season.  While the dial settings for the women are a bit different, the complaints were similar, although the NESCAC feels they got screwed in favor of the UAA, which got 7 teams in on the women's side.  One point the director made repeated is that the NESCAC's out of conference record was so strong that it put their teams in a great position.