This is incredible insight and history, I wasn't aware that the league has changed so much over the last 10 years or so. 

The SUNY teams do seem to be strong squads and over the last few years have given the legacy Empire 8 teams a lot to handle. 

Did some analysis and looks like remaining SoS for the top teams so far is toughest on SJF and Brockport.  Naz and Alfred seem to have an easier path to the top of the table.  Used only Conference Win% since the non-league opponents where wildly skewing the data with teams like Word of Life playing Sage and losing 0-10!  With only conference games left for most of the schedules across all the teams, every game will be hugely important!  Will be interesting to see how this plays out!

Rank   Team            Games left   Avg opp conf win %
1   Houghton    5           .620
2   St. John Fisher    6           .617
3   SUNY Brockport    6           .572
4   Utica            6           .567
5   Elmira            6           .517
6   Russell Sage    6           .500
7   Hartwick    5           .493
8   Keuka            5           .480
9   SUNY Geneseo    6           .461
10   SUNY Poly    6           .450
10   Nazareth    6           .450
12   Alfred            5           .367

Naz with another convincing win against Geneseo and they look to continue to their winning ways.  SJF with 6 goals in their last 2 games after a falter at Alfred, and Brockport continues to have not lost a league game.  Some trends in the overall scoring really highlight that GF has been bolstered by non-league high scoring results, and in league GA is really showing that defense drives the overall success in this league (well probably most) Defense wins Championships right!  The next few weeks have some top of the table matches which should be interesting (Naz - SJF, Brockport - Naz)

Bumping this back up ... new to the boards and the league.  Seems like every game is 50/50 and games results aren't consistently in the favor of the "stronger" programs.  So far, it looks likes Naz is the strongest team of the bunch?