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DIII Outdoor TF Rankings Update — 2012 Week #3 - USTFCCCAPublished by
DIII Outdoor T&F Rankings Update — 2012 Week #3Courtesy: Tom Lewis, USTFCCCA NEW ORLEANS — The top five men’s teams and the top eight women’s teams remain in the same positions in the latest USTFCCCA Division III Outdoor Track & Field National Team Rankings. A week before the computer rankings drop preseason marks as a factor in compiling team scores, McMurry’s men and Wartburg’s women keep the helm as top teams in the country. The largest movers among the top ten were UW-Stout’s men who moved up to No. 6, and No. 9 Ithaca’s wome who moved to No. 12. National Ranking PDFs: Top 25 | Full by Team | Event-by-Event | Week-by-Week
About the Rankings Rankings are determined by a mathematical formula, which is based on current national descending order lists. This is what’s used to compile a team’s ranking. The purpose and methodology of the rankings is to create an index that showcases the teams that have the best potential of achieving the top spots in the national-title race. The Regional Index is determined using a similar method as national rankings, but on a smaller scale, comparing teams versus others within the same region. The result is a ranking that showcases squads with better all-around team potential — a group makeup critical for conference or similar team-scored events. A team may achieve a better regional ranking than a counterpart that has a better national ranking. Historically, some teams are better national-championship teams than conference-championship teams, having a few elite athletes that score very well in a diverse environment where teams do not have entries in more than a few events. Some teams are better at conference championships or similar team-scored events where they enter, and are competitive, in many of the events. How a team fares in a national championship, conference championship, or scored meet with only a couple or few teams (like a dual or triangular) can be very different, given the number of events, competition, scoring, and makeup of entries — thus the rationale behind each of the ranking systems. Similar arguments about team makeup and rankings can also be found in swimming & diving and wrestling as their sports also have a similar trichotomy when it comes to team theory. Read the full article at: www.ustfccca.org
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