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Pick-ems, fantasy leagues, etc. / Re: Survivor Pool: Undefeated and Winless
« Last post by augie77 on Today at 12:07:35 am »Alas, with Finlandia's closure the frequently picked Lions will be picked on no more. Ineligible for winless.
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Men's soccer / Re: 2023 D3 Men's Soccer National Perspective
« Last post by Kuiper on Yesterday at 11:29:26 pm »For those who weren't following this on the GO WEST thread, the Big Three in the SCAC -- Trinity (6-0-2), St. Thomas (7-0-1) , and Texas Lutheran (9-0) -- all took care of business in impressive fashion tonight, albeit against mostly weaker opponents.
Trinity 4 - Southwestern 0
The most impressive victory of the three because it was against an undefeated opponent. Having said that, Southwestern was 4-0-3 and its most impressive victory was probably the first of the season against Willamette. The tie against Elmhurst looks bad in retrospect. This game, as @RonBoerger summarized in the GO WEST thread, was a tale of two halves, but only in the sense of Southwestern's tactics and aggressiveness. Trinity won each half 2-0.
St. Thomas 6 - Wiley 0
I have no idea why St. Thomas scheduled this game other than to get a lot of players on the bench some playing time in mid-season. Wiley is an NAIA team. Some NAIA teams are quite good since they can give scholarships. This is not one of those teams. Wiley came into the game 1-7. St. Thomas' Taty Aleman got a brace in 45 minutes, Sebastian Ibarolla got a brace in 28 minutes, 4 GKs for St. Thomas got playing time in the game. In fact, 37 players played at least 13 minutes or more for St. Thomas.
Texas Lutheran 4 - Schreiner 0
It looks like a comfortable victory, and it was in the final stats. Schreiner only took 4 shots, two on goal, compared to Texas Lutheran's 17 and this was TLU's most goals and biggest margin of victory of the season. Nevertheless, it was only 1-0 at half on a TLU goal with a few minutes left in the half.
Trinity 4 - Southwestern 0
The most impressive victory of the three because it was against an undefeated opponent. Having said that, Southwestern was 4-0-3 and its most impressive victory was probably the first of the season against Willamette. The tie against Elmhurst looks bad in retrospect. This game, as @RonBoerger summarized in the GO WEST thread, was a tale of two halves, but only in the sense of Southwestern's tactics and aggressiveness. Trinity won each half 2-0.
St. Thomas 6 - Wiley 0
I have no idea why St. Thomas scheduled this game other than to get a lot of players on the bench some playing time in mid-season. Wiley is an NAIA team. Some NAIA teams are quite good since they can give scholarships. This is not one of those teams. Wiley came into the game 1-7. St. Thomas' Taty Aleman got a brace in 45 minutes, Sebastian Ibarolla got a brace in 28 minutes, 4 GKs for St. Thomas got playing time in the game. In fact, 37 players played at least 13 minutes or more for St. Thomas.
Texas Lutheran 4 - Schreiner 0
It looks like a comfortable victory, and it was in the final stats. Schreiner only took 4 shots, two on goal, compared to Texas Lutheran's 17 and this was TLU's most goals and biggest margin of victory of the season. Nevertheless, it was only 1-0 at half on a TLU goal with a few minutes left in the half.
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Region 2 football (New York and Pennsylvania-ish) / Re: FB: Liberty League
« Last post by IC798891 on Yesterday at 11:22:32 pm »This is the last thing I'll say about the Endicott/Simmons thing. I promise. And I'm not going to be snarky or rude — and I was before, so apologies. And this has gone through snarky drafts. But this is not snark.
Hardin Simmons is afforded the benefit of the doubt by the voters every year. Every year since 2015, they have made it into the Top 10, and occasionally the Top 5. They have not won a single NCAA playoff game in the history of the d3football.com poll. They have lost 20 of their last 21 to Hardin-Baylor.
That doesn't mean the voters are wrong to rank them highly. It means they've been giving Hardin-Simmons the benefit of the doubt when they do it. Because Hardin-Baylor is elite. Because the games are close. Because the NCAA is too cheap to pay for flights so they have often been stuck with the Round 1 rematch vs. UMHB.
But this wasn't Hardin-Baylor. It wasn't close. It wasn't because the NCAA is cheap. And more importantly, this wasn't some hypothetical thought exercise like "Would Hardin Simmons beat [whatever elite team]?"
There's the benefit of the doubt and there's "the actual results don't matter." And that's what this feels like.
Look, I'm old enough to remember Buff State beating Whitewater. That was a program a decade removed from relevancy squeaking out a 1-point win thanks to a 4th and 19 conversion with 30 seconds left. This was not that
This was a team that spent several weeks in the Top 25 last year winning a game in which they never trailed and led by 34 points after the third quarter. Hardin Simmons used three quarterbacks and Endicott blanked them all. Endicott didn't turn the ball over and committed just two penalties for 10 yards.
But here we are again, and like it's been for much of the past 20 years, for a sizable segment of voters, it doesn't seem to matter than Hardin Simmons didn't actually win the game on the field.
So yeah, it's frustrating.
Hardin Simmons is afforded the benefit of the doubt by the voters every year. Every year since 2015, they have made it into the Top 10, and occasionally the Top 5. They have not won a single NCAA playoff game in the history of the d3football.com poll. They have lost 20 of their last 21 to Hardin-Baylor.
That doesn't mean the voters are wrong to rank them highly. It means they've been giving Hardin-Simmons the benefit of the doubt when they do it. Because Hardin-Baylor is elite. Because the games are close. Because the NCAA is too cheap to pay for flights so they have often been stuck with the Round 1 rematch vs. UMHB.
But this wasn't Hardin-Baylor. It wasn't close. It wasn't because the NCAA is cheap. And more importantly, this wasn't some hypothetical thought exercise like "Would Hardin Simmons beat [whatever elite team]?"
There's the benefit of the doubt and there's "the actual results don't matter." And that's what this feels like.
Look, I'm old enough to remember Buff State beating Whitewater. That was a program a decade removed from relevancy squeaking out a 1-point win thanks to a 4th and 19 conversion with 30 seconds left. This was not that
This was a team that spent several weeks in the Top 25 last year winning a game in which they never trailed and led by 34 points after the third quarter. Hardin Simmons used three quarterbacks and Endicott blanked them all. Endicott didn't turn the ball over and committed just two penalties for 10 yards.
But here we are again, and like it's been for much of the past 20 years, for a sizable segment of voters, it doesn't seem to matter than Hardin Simmons didn't actually win the game on the field.
So yeah, it's frustrating.
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Men's soccer / Re: Go WEST young man (and NORTH)
« Last post by Kuiper on Yesterday at 11:21:31 pm »The Big Three in the SCAC all took care of business in impressive fashion tonight, albeit against mostly weaker opponents
Trinity 4 - Southwestern 0
The most impressive victory of the three because it was against an undefeated opponent. Having said that, Southwestern was 4-0-3 and its most impressive victory was probably the first of the season against Willamette. The tie against Elmhurst looks bad in retrospect. In this game, as @RonBoerger summarized up thread, was a tale of two halves, but only in the sense of Southwestern's tactics and aggressiveness. Trinity won each half 2-0.
St. Thomas 6 - Wiley 0
I have no idea why St. Thomas scheduled this game other than to get a lot of players on the bench some playing time in mid-season. Wiley is an NAIA team. Some NAIA teams are quite good since they can give scholarships. This is not one of those teams. Wiley came into the game 1-7. St. Thomas' Taty Aleman got a brace in 45 minutes, Sebastian Ibarolla got a brace in 28 minutes, 4 GKs for St. Thomas got playing time in the game. In fact, 37 players played at least 13 minutes or more for St. Thomas.
Texas Lutheran 4 - Schreiner 0
It looks like a comfortable victory, and it was in the final stats. Schreiner only took 4 shots, two on goal, compared to Texas Lutheran's 17 and this was TLU's most goals and biggest margin of victory of the season. Nevertheless, it was only 1-0 at half on a TLU goal with a few minutes left in the half.
One other game involving possibly the next best team in the SCAC
Colorado College 5 - Centenary (LA) 0
Centenary is getting beaten badly by lots of teams, but a win is a win and Colorado College did it convincingly. 5 different scorers on 29 shots away from home is a good outing for CC and keeps them in the regional rankings.
Trinity 4 - Southwestern 0
The most impressive victory of the three because it was against an undefeated opponent. Having said that, Southwestern was 4-0-3 and its most impressive victory was probably the first of the season against Willamette. The tie against Elmhurst looks bad in retrospect. In this game, as @RonBoerger summarized up thread, was a tale of two halves, but only in the sense of Southwestern's tactics and aggressiveness. Trinity won each half 2-0.
St. Thomas 6 - Wiley 0
I have no idea why St. Thomas scheduled this game other than to get a lot of players on the bench some playing time in mid-season. Wiley is an NAIA team. Some NAIA teams are quite good since they can give scholarships. This is not one of those teams. Wiley came into the game 1-7. St. Thomas' Taty Aleman got a brace in 45 minutes, Sebastian Ibarolla got a brace in 28 minutes, 4 GKs for St. Thomas got playing time in the game. In fact, 37 players played at least 13 minutes or more for St. Thomas.
Texas Lutheran 4 - Schreiner 0
It looks like a comfortable victory, and it was in the final stats. Schreiner only took 4 shots, two on goal, compared to Texas Lutheran's 17 and this was TLU's most goals and biggest margin of victory of the season. Nevertheless, it was only 1-0 at half on a TLU goal with a few minutes left in the half.
One other game involving possibly the next best team in the SCAC
Colorado College 5 - Centenary (LA) 0
Centenary is getting beaten badly by lots of teams, but a win is a win and Colorado College did it convincingly. 5 different scorers on 29 shots away from home is a good outing for CC and keeps them in the regional rankings.
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Men's soccer / Re: 2023 D3 Men's Soccer National Perspective
« Last post by WUPHF on Yesterday at 11:20:10 pm »True, although Britain has fielded a combined team in the Olympics as recently as 2012. But the Home Nations -- England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland -- each zealously guards its own autonomous Football Association and thus its right to compete for the World Cup as a separate country apart from the UK standard. So it looks as though it will be quite awhile before another British soccer team marches into a stadium behind the Union Jack for the opening ceremony of the summer Olympics.
I did not realize that Great Britain fielded a national team for the Olympics.
211 national teams, 195 nations recognized by the United Nations, hard to keep track.
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Region 5 football (Central-ish) / Re: FB: American Rivers Conference
« Last post by wartknight on Yesterday at 10:59:17 pm »Plan on hitting the Knight/Hack game tomorrow depending on how my am work flow goes. Will be a change of pace from last week as I was among the 100k+ Rocky Topping @ Neyland stadium. Coe has played the Knights tough historically, but I like the Knights by more than last yrs margin.
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Men's soccer / Re: 2023 D3 Men's Soccer National Perspective
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Men's soccer / Re: Go WEST young man (and NORTH)
« Last post by Kuiper on Yesterday at 10:42:02 pm »Totally different second half from the Pirates, much more dangerous but end up on the losing side of an 0-4 decision. Shots ended up 11-7 in favor of Trinity with Willman making two saves (and a third skittered off the side woodwork).
Trinity’s defense looked strong and I was impresssd with Wilman. He made one save on a bouncing or deflected ball that showed first class reflexes and he snuffed out another chance by coming off his line to his left. The one weak spot for Trinity was the midfield in the second half. They let some players dribble by them, although it may have been some second line Trinity players who were getting beat. In any event, Trinity looked to be a different class than Southwestern even in the second half.
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Pick-ems, fantasy leagues, etc. / Re: D3 Men's National Pick Em League
« Last post by tartanpride2016 on Yesterday at 10:35:54 pm »If you are playing, please make an effort to schedule a week. It's easier for everyone and more fun seeing others pick rather than the same poster scheduling multiple weeks.
WK 1: 11/6 - 11/12 - Greek
WK 2: 11/13 - 11/19
WK 3: 11/20 - 11/26
WK 4: 11/27 - 12/3 tartanpride2016
WK 5: 12/4 - 12/10
WK 6: 12/11 - 12/17
WK 7: 12/18 - 12/24
WK 8: 12/25 - 12/31 FCGG
WK 9: 1/1 - 1/7
WK 10: 1/8 - 1/14
WK 11: 1/15 - 1/21
WK 12: 1/22 - 1/28
WK 13: 1/29 - 2/4 FCGG (I will give up this week if we have enough posters volunteering to schedule a week.)
WK 14: 2/5 - 2/11
WK 15: 2/12 - 2/18 - Greek (I will give up this week if we have enough posters volunteering to schedule a week.)
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WK 1: 11/6 - 11/12 - Greek
WK 2: 11/13 - 11/19
WK 3: 11/20 - 11/26
WK 4: 11/27 - 12/3 tartanpride2016
WK 5: 12/4 - 12/10
WK 6: 12/11 - 12/17
WK 7: 12/18 - 12/24
WK 8: 12/25 - 12/31 FCGG
WK 9: 1/1 - 1/7
WK 10: 1/8 - 1/14
WK 11: 1/15 - 1/21
WK 12: 1/22 - 1/28
WK 13: 1/29 - 2/4 FCGG (I will give up this week if we have enough posters volunteering to schedule a week.)
WK 14: 2/5 - 2/11
WK 15: 2/12 - 2/18 - Greek (I will give up this week if we have enough posters volunteering to schedule a week.)
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Men's soccer / Re: Go WEST young man (and NORTH)
« Last post by Ron Boerger on Yesterday at 10:32:52 pm »Totally different second half from the Pirates, much more dangerous but end up on the losing side of an 0-4 decision. Shots ended up 11-7 in favor of Trinity with Willman making two saves (and a third skittered off the side woodwork).