This is the new reality of NPI. If a team, North Central, decides that playing another team, UChicago, is not in their best interest for NPI ranking, then they can just pull out. Soccer is played in the rain everywhere, not thunder and lightning but definitely rain. There was a turf field as a back-up option so there is no reason this game couldn't be played. With the new world of NPI and being able to calculate the value of a contest even before playing it, this will become more common. Gone are the days where a contract between two schools in D3 means anything. This same thing happened last year in the nescac. On the men's side, I won't mention who, a team cancelled a game within their season because win, lose or tie, it was going to hurt their NPI so they just dropped it. They then picked up a different team within the season. Unless the NCAA looks at this and says that once schedules are set, that a game that is not agreed upon by both schools as being a non-contest, should count as a forfeit this will become more commonplace.