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(06-20-2017 11:07 AM)dannyb73 Wrote:  

(06-20-2017 06:55 AM)burden Wrote:  With only baseball left we are in 61st (a little lower than I expected, but still pretty good). We are in seventh of non-power 5 schools. Cornell, Harvard, BYU (a power 5 school in my mind), Denver, New Mexico and another Ivy school who I can't remember right now are ahead of us.

Stanford is going to win for the 20th+ straight time. You think the formula is rigged for schools with 34 sponsored sports??????. Another one, Ohio St. does pretty well most years too. However the Stanford water polo and beach volleyball teams are just too tough.

They really shouldn't get any points for sports that less than 80% of D1 teams participate. Seems only logical.

Here are the sports with at least 80% participation (280 schools).
Women's: Basketball, XC, indoor track, outdoor track, soccer, volleyball, tennis and softball. Golf at 263 is at 75%, swimming 55%, LAX 32%

Men's: Basketball,XC, golf, baseball, indoor track and outdoor track. Tennis is at 75%, Football 73%, soccer 59%, swimming 38%

Of the 36 sponsored sports 12 have less than 50 teams(<14%) and another 7 less than 100 (<28%).

Amazingly enough if you use a number as high as 75%, Kent would only lose women's gymnastics and wrestling points (about 48 of their 400).