PRE SEASON National Ultimate Media Panel College Womens Top 20

[Mike Gerics]

Below are the PreSeason College Womens Division Rankings as voted by the
National Ultimate Media Panel Members.
As you see, the first place votes were divided amungst 6 different
teams...lots of uncertainty, i guess....and lots of differing opinions.
The "other teams receiving votes" portion of the rankings will always
feature JUST the next 5 vote getters.....

Rank Team/First Place Votes Pts
1 Stanford-8 306
2 UC Santa Barbara-3 280
3 UCLA-1 274
4 Michigan-3 255
5 UBC-1 250
6 Wisconsin 227
7 Colorado-1 192
8 Washington 184
9 Carleton 145
10 Cal Berkeley 129
11 Pittsburgh 127
12 Texas 122
13 Oregon 120
14 Truman State 118
15 Florida 79
16 UC San Diego 67
17 Iowa State 61
18 NYU 49
19 North Carolina 49
20 UC Davis 47

---other teams receiving votes include:
Emory, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Delaware and Georgia

---any questions or comments????

[acs...@gmail.com]

So how are these values calculated? What are these rankings based off
of? Someone please educate me! =)
Thanks!
p.s. GO KALI! (and luna!)

[Mike Gerics]

So how are these values calculated? What are these rankings based off
of? Someone please educate me! =)
Thanks!

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---not sure what "based off of" means....
but the rankings are the reult of the ballots cast by Members of the
National Ultimate Media Panel.
They submit their Top 20 in the Womens Div.....#1 gets 20 points, #2 gets 19
and so on until #20 gets 1 vote.
I tabulate the votes....and publish the results.

The Members have great credentials, which give the rankings plenty
of......credit.
so hopefully TDs, teams and others will use them well.

enjoy.
Mike Gerics
NUMP Tabulator

[Fantusta]

Watch out for University of Ottawa... they didn't make the flight out
to Canadian Nationals, but they certainly could've given UBC a good
game with their full squad.
If they make it down to sectionals and regionals this year (and snow
doesn't force them to forfeit the second weekend...) they could make
some noise.
Just figure if UBC's getting any love, Ottawa should too.

[Jared Smith]

Why is Pitt rated 11th? Are they blowing up this year or what because
otherwise I can't see #11...

[Alex Korb]

Well they finished the UPA rankings at #15 last season, and they did
well at Elite Eights as I recall (one of the most competitive fall
tournaments this year). So #11 does not seem unreasonable to me.

[Gambler]

My question is where did the NE disappear to? Seems a little odd to
me that not a single team from the region made it into the running.
Anyone have any insights?

[Rob]

UBC made Semis at UPA Nats and then won Canadian University Nats.
Ottawa didn't go to UPA Regionals or Canandian Nats.

You've got to earn your love.

Rob

[thom...@stanford.edu]

By UPA Top 25 rankings, Tufts was the highest NE placer, finishing at
39th.

[Gambler]

Right, but Tufts tied for 11th at Nationals last year, above Florida,
Truman State and Emory (all three of which made it onto the NUMP
preseason poll).

I've never thought fall tournaments meant that much (getting rookies
experience, playing split squads, etc.), so I guess I'm just curious
why Tufts got shut out.

--just trying to overcome my NW biases,
Gwen

[sempe...@gmail.com]

And in the category of SW bias, um, was there a new development with
UCSD such that they got to have their team back? Last I heard they
were suspended for the season, which would make them a weird vote for
the top 20.

-H2