How can Stonybrook be higher than Providence in the regional rankings and be lower in the National. Putting the times in - Stonybrook outran Providence at Pre-Nats.
How can Stonybrook be higher than Providence in the regional rankings and be lower in the National. Putting the times in - Stonybrook outran Providence at Pre-Nats.
Don't get how the rankings worked for this week, but Providence was without their 2nd girl from Griak and she would have probably finished between Greany and Davidson at Pre nats...taking a lot of points off their total team score... She will be back for regionals and even before that so I would think that would keep them second in the Northeast region behind Syracuse.
The rankings should reflect what transpired at pre-nats.
If an athlete doesn't run and the team's performance suffers, then the team's ranking should suffer as well.
If an athlete returns and the team runs stronger, then its ranking should rise accordingly.
The ranking votes are meant to driven primarily by race outcomes.
Well, yea, but...
Then why is NAU ranked so high? And, how do they rank anyone at all before the first race, by the way?
Lets say that school A decides to run two teams at PreNats and those teams each finish, say, fourth in each race (blue and white). So, they should be ranked behind all six of the teams that beat them and other teams from other regions, etc. Yet, when you look at the times you see immediately that school A would have won both races, as they went, say, 1/2/3 in each race. Now, if I am voting I damn well think that school A is better than all those other teams and would rank them that way, but you think that is not how it should be done.
Thus, voters will keep in mind who ran and who did not and why. Typically, the top teams hold out some top runners from Regionals; should we vote them lower as a result? Now, getting in is based on points and performance, so you have to get there with actual races; there is no voting.
The benefit for Stonybrook should be that if they finish 3rd at regionals, they should get an at-large bid since their times beat Providence at pre-nats.
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The benefit for Stonybrook should be that if they finish 3rd at regionals, they should get an at-large bid since their times beat Providence at pre-nats.
Do not think this goes as beating them in the rules.
To get an at-large point, you have to beat the team head to head.