Ranking the NCAA Regions

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11 years ago 11/03/2012 8:51pm EDT

Ranking the Men's Regions in my opinion...

How I ranked:

Took every runner's PR Florating (best florating from 2011 or 2012)

Then ranked according to that number

The region with the lowest average among their top 40 runners was ranked 1st and so on.

Individuals were the based on the top 40 best floratings.

Criticism: Why use floratings? Why use Darius Terry's 2011 florating? Where is Reed Connor or Jeremy Rae etc.? I know I know. It's not perfect but it still gives a sense of the fields.

Note: Team Rankings are based on latest Coaches' Poll

1) West (#3 Stanford; #9 Portland; #25 Arizona State; #27 UCLA)

INDV: Lalang, Sambu, Dunbar, Stinson, Werley, Rosa, Terry

2) Mountain (#2 Colorado; #7 BYU; #16 New Mexico; #18 Northern Arizona)

INDV: Kithuka, Rotich, Hurysz, Ward, Theroux, Shields, Dowdy

3) Midwest (#1 Oklahoma State; #8 Oklahoma; #19 Tulsa; #29 Kansas)

INDV: Kipchirchir, Mecheso, Farrell, Casey, Erassa, Moskowitz, O'Hare

4) Southeast (#15 Eastern Kentucky; #17 Virginia Tech; #21 Virginia)

INDV: Chelimo, Colley, Mulherin, Toroitich

5) Great Lakes (#6 Wisconsin; #12 Michigan; #20 Indiana; #28 Notre Dame)

INDV: Ahmed, Ejigu, Mayhew, Darling, Bayer, Lowry

6) Northeast (#4 Iona; #22 Columbia)

INDV: Gillespie, Goose

7) South Central (#5 Texas; #10 Arkansas; #29 Texas A&M)

INDV: Lelei, Rooney, Dohner, Fernandez, Lutz

8) South (#23 Florida State; #26 Georgia)

INDV: Forrester, Zivec

9) Mid-Atlantic (#13 Princeton; #24 Georgetown)

INDV: N/A

….DEBATE!!!!!

11 years ago 11/03/2012 10:50pm EDT

re: fun.

Runners that could win Regionals often will not when it is a team race, as they are not wanting to race all-out eight days before NCAAs, especially if a number 1 stick is not need to qualify.

11 years ago 11/03/2012 11:55pm EDT

re: fun.

Thanks for doing some nice legwork.

How big are the gaps between regions?

How much do the ringers that nobody cares about (from a team standpoint) affect the rankings? Nobody in the West gives a crap about the Arizona guys. Mountain and Southeast have similar issues.

What I'm asking, I guess, is whether the region rankings are affected to a significant degree based upon which coaches bring in the ringers, and where they happen to be located. Would the Mid-Atlantic be higher, or at least less last, if the Arizona guys happened to land there?

11 years ago 11/04/2012 5:54am EST

re: I Know I'm a Richard

For the northeast you are missing Syracuse which would change the regions ranking.

11 years ago 11/04/2012 6:20pm EST

re: Rana

Thanks for the note on syracuse I included them just typo forgot to type them in.

Here is a clearly look on the analysis I did. (Note there was a slight change)

This time I took the average PR florating for the top 25 runners in each region.

The floratings are PR from 2011 or 2012

Also I eliminated runners outside of their team's top 7 and runners like Ross Millington and Joe Bosshard who I dont think are running

here were the results

Top 25 runner's florating avg:

212.0 West

210.8 Mountain

209.0 Midwest

207.9 Southeast

207.6 Great Lakes

205.5 Northeast

205.4 South Central

202.0 Mid-Atlantic

200.4 South

11 years ago 11/04/2012 6:29pm EST

re: fun.

Where's the Big Sky?

11 years ago 11/04/2012 6:46pm EST

re: fun.

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