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Silverback Power Index: West Coast Consolidation

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Silverback Power Index: West Coast Consolidation

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Army knocked off Lindenwood. Life fell to St. Mary’s. Now, Cal and St. Mary’s top the Power Index Rankings.

We have yet to see the Golden Bears in 15s and will have to wait until February 19 (vs #9 Arizona) for them to defend their top ranking. 

If you're salivating at the thought of a Cal-St. Mary’s matchup, both teams will need to hold their ranking until March 26 to deliver the #1 vs #2 clash.

How are the NCR Brackets Doing?

The Power Index had a crack at picking the NCR brackets. So far, the Index has 14 correct picks from 27 (52%). Is this a bad sign for the Index? We don’t think so – we’re actually very encouraged by this.

The Index is a perfect four from four in the DI Bracket. This seems to indicate the Index’s failings at the DIAA and DII level might be down to the dataset. We have several years’ worth of match data on the eight teams in the D1 bracket. By comparison, we only have 2021 data on the DIAA and DII bracket.

Another challenge at these levels is incomplete datasets. We data dump on Tuesdays. Most weeks, we are missing match data on 10-20% of these DIAA and DII matches. How do we fix this? We need help from the clubs to report scores through competition management systems and on their social media promptly. At the governing body level, the top of our Christmas list is for USA Rugby and NCR to come together to establish a unified Competition Management System; enabling better reporting on the college game and thus better exposure for the game!

CURR RK Δ RK PREV RK SCHOOL COMP Week 12 Results PREV RAT CURR RAT Δ RAT
1 0 1 California D1A   97.29 97.29 0
2 1 3 St. Mary's D1A Close Win vs Life 95.51 97.12 1.61
3 -1 2 Life D1A Close Loss vs St. Mary's 96.94 95.33 -1.61
4 0 4 Lindenwood D1A Big Win vs Davenport 94.95 94.95 0
5 0 5 Central Washington D1A   91.68 91.68 0
6 0 6 Army NCR1   89.91 89.91 0
7 0 7 Arkansas State D1A   86.95 86.95 0
8 0 8 Navy NCR1   85.97 85.97 0
9 0 9 Arizona D1A   85.5 85.5 0
10 0 10 BYU D1A   85.06 85.06 0
11 4 15 Kutztown NCR1 Big Win vs Iona 74.17 77.55 3.38
12 -1 11 UCLA D1A   76.25 76.25 0
13 -1 12 St. Bonaventure NCR1 Big Win vs Mary Washington 75.87 75.87 0
14 -1 13 Indiana D1A Big Win vs Indiana 75.06 75.06 0
15 -1 14 Grand Canyon D1A   74.29 74.29 0
16 0 16 Davenport D1A Big Loss vs Lindenwood 73.98 73.98 0
17 1 18 Penn State NCR1 Close Win vs Brown 69.46 69.59 0.13
18 1 19 Ohio State D1A   69.33 69.33 0
19 1 20 Dartmouth NCR1   67.41 67.41 0
20 -3 17 Iona NCR1 Big Loss vs Kutztown 70.23 66.86 -3.37
21 1 22 Queens University NCR1 Win vs Northeastern by Forfeit 65.21 65.21 0
22 1 23 Colorado State D1A   64.52 64.52 0
23 1 24 Iowa Central CC NCR1   63.65 63.65 0
24 1 25 Texas A&M D1A   63 63 0
25 1 26 Colorado D1A   62.19 62.19 0
26 1 27 Notre Dame College NCR1   61.47 61.47 0
27 6 33 Tennessee D1AA Cloe Win vs CLEM 59.37 60.56 1.19
28 0 28 Baylor D1A   60.52 60.52 0
29 0 29 Fairfield NCR1   60.34 60.34 0
30 0 30 Bowling Green D1AA   60.26 60.26 0
31 0 31 Adrian College NCR2 Big Wins vs UNCC, Illinois State 59.42 59.42 0
32 0 32 Mary Washington NCR1 Big Loss vs St. Bonaventure 59.38 59.38 0
33 1 34 Utah Valley D1A   58.89 58.89 0
34 1 35 Michigan State D1A   58.88 58.88 0
35   21 Northeastern NCR1 Loss vs Queens by Forfeit 65.9 58.7 -7.2
36 0 36 Brown NCR1 Close Loss vs Penn State 58.62 58.48 -0.14
37 0 37 Mount St. Mary's NCR1   56.36 56.36 0
38 0 38 Boston College NCR1   55.32 55.32 0
39   39 Fordham NCR1   54.85 54.85 0
40 0 40 American International NCR1   54.76 54.76 0