New England soccer really brought all the excitement this weekend!

Maine Maritime plays VT State Lydon to a 7-0 finish, then plays Middlebury 0-8 the next day--hats off to MMA for a pretty grueling road trip for two away games, and playing with positivity the second day.

Amherst-Tufts! That's a lot of goals, and imagine being up three, looking for that first conference win of the season and then conceding three to a conference rival!

Wesleyan is in the "soccer is the cruelest sport" phase of their season, losing a few very close matches after beating the reigning national champ out of the gate. I am sure their record will improve as the move through the remainder of the season, though Hamilton, Colby, Bates and Trinity have all proven without a doubt that there is no easy opponent in the NESCAC.

Clark is right now my favorite dark horse of the season---a win over previously undefeated Wheaton and a tie with Babson, they are clicking! Looking forward to seeing what they can do for the rest of the conference games in the NEWMAC.

Washington & Lee is ROLLING after that first game loss, great to see them doing so well.

Lots of great games coming up this week!

Quote from: Kuiper on October 03, 2026, 10:38:32 PMNYU falls from the Yet to Lose category after losing to University of Chicago 1-0 on a 90th minute goal.

That was a WILD finish!

Quote from: maineman on September 20, 2026, 01:20:36 PMDoes anybody know what precipitated the bench yellow on Amherst.  Was it trash talk?

Believe it was directed at Serpone

Love the StatRanking site!

Looks like we have three teams so far tied for most wins, all from the midwest: St. Olaf, Case Western and St. Joseph's in MN all are 6-0-0. The east coast teams seem to have started later, they are at 3-5 games completed as of this weekend.

This is so interesting, and will be great to follow along with! Thanks!

Quote from: ziggy on September 10, 2026, 10:01:25 AMJust to add some clarity for anyone who sees the word "simulator" used here and thinks this includes any forward-looking projection, that is not the case.

We are simply providing a daily tracker of how the NPI calculation stands as of current games played (with the necessary caveat that even though we are pulling results from the NCAA, errors and omissions can and do occur and may at times require cleanup on our end to correct the data set.)

Obviously, there are no real AQs until they are actually awarded but you can't get a view of the at-large cutline without first accounting for the AQs. What we have set up simply allows for identifying around where the cutline will be, which will make more sense and be more helpful later in the season.

See, I'm not even sure how to post under a topic without replying.

In the NEWMAC, I am so curious to see how Wheaton and Babson fare as the leaders. Babson has had such a stronghold on MSOC in the NEWMAC for years, and last year Wheaton had an amazing breakout year, going to the third round of the NCAA tournament. Babson is first in the standings right now, Wheaton in second, and dark horse Emerson in third, who recently held Conn College to a one-goal lead. Wheaton and Babson, along with other NEWMAC and some CNE teams, sharpen up with tests  against NESCAC teams, but this early in the season its hard to say what a good test really is. Will be interesting to watch!

I'm just a fan, and don't have the analysis skills and posting chops to carry a new conference topic, but I do follow several teams in the NEWMAC & the former Commonwealth Coast Conference (now CNE-Conference of New England) and love reading good posts about D3 programs across the country. If you know mens' soccer fans at the following schools, let them know this board exists!

Curry College
Endicott College
Gordon College
Johnson & Wales University (RI)
Nichols College
Roger Williams University
Suffolk University
University of Hartford
University of New England
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Western New England University

or

Babson College
Clark University
Emerson College
MIT
Salve Regina University
Springfield College
U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Wheaton College
WPI

It appeared that the game stayed clean and not chippy, at least from the broadcast--after the Conn v Amherst wrestlefest the week previous, I was concerned it would be overly physical! Both teams kept it all about the soccer, which can be hard on the losing side of a scoreline like that, kudos to Conn!

Quote from: Kuiper on September 12, 2026, 02:25:11 PMHard to believe Conn lost to Middlebury 3-0!  Last time they gave up 3 goals in a NESCAC game may have been a 3-1 loss to Wesleyan in 2024.  They went on to make it to the National Championship game that year, though, so I wouldn't read too much into it.  Nevertheless, I would not want to be at practice on Monday (or be their next opponent, Clark, on Tuesday).

After a particularly good showing in my World cup pool, I feel finally qualified to join this pool! What day do we submit our picks?

Trying to find it on championships pass, and only see the semis there?

Love these back stories, keep them coming! Thanks for all the time you put in here!

Quote from: stlawus on November 09, 2025, 08:41:27 PMIt's NCAA Power Index, not NESCAC Protection Index.  If you're going to get a whole bunch of teams as a result of NPI then you probably shouldn't be complaining when you have to play each other early on. 

I was actually thinking of the problem of UAA and Minnesota schools!

But don't all the conference opponents get separated in the first round?

Would love to hear some speculations on who the regional pod hosts will be and how they mix up the conferences! Especially how the travel/flights will be handled for us out in the midwest or the western/southern spread out schools, this is quite a puzzle!

Vassar with two men down loses to Hobart 1-2, is that the last game of the day?