I didn’t get a chance earlier in the week to write a post for the new T100 or a composite MORE (Median Order Ranks by Experts) Rank on Tuesday, either. This morning I was kicking around a different idea to see what kind of consensus there seems to be amongst the experts as we close in on the mid point of the 2024 season. The noise is beginning to dampen, but even more interesting is the distinct signal strength the ratings of these experts are producing beyond their ordinal ranks. Here is how it turned out!
Sorry I missed this last week. Here is what they are a week after I posted that scatterplot… Only teams whose average Z score is greater than .10 are offered as those were the ones I showed on the original plot, too.
Z Ave
Stevens 1.88
Wentworth 1.79
Southern Va. 1.79
Loras 1.76
Springfield 1.66
Cal Lutheran 1.54
Vassar 1.52
North Central (IL) 1.48
St. John Fisher 1.44
Juniata 1.37
Carthage 1.35
Marymount (VA) 1.29
Nichols 1.19
UC Santa Cruz 1.14
NYU 1.13
Nazareth 1.05
SUNY New Paltz 1.05
Dominican (IL) 1.04
MIT 1.02
Messiah 1.02
Lasell 1.00
Stevenson 0.97
Augustana (IL) 0.87
Hobart 0.87
Benedictine (IL) 0.86
Misericordia 0.86
St. Joseph’s (L.I.) 0.83
Concordia Wisconsin 0.77
Randolph-Macon 0.76
Trine 0.76
MSOE 0.74
Marian (WI) 0.71
Wittenberg 0.64
Baldwin Wallace 0.61
Aurora 0.61
Wabash 0.60
Arcadia 0.57
Endicott 0.53
IIT 0.49
Kean 0.48
Rutgers-Newark 0.47
Mount Union 0.47
Rivier 0.46
East. Mennonite 0.43
Ill. Wesleyan 0.43
Lancaster Bible 0.42
Elmira 0.39
Hunter 0.37
Emmanuel (MA) 0.35
Baruch 0.33
Adrian 0.32
Widener 0.32
Roanoke 0.31
Elizabethtown 0.30
Eastern Nazarene 0.24
St. Norbert 0.23
Wis.-Stevens Point 0.22
Buffalo St. 0.22
New Jersey City 0.17
Wilkes 0.15
Thiel 0.13
Edgewood 0.12
Hiram 0.10
It will change a little on Tuesday when the coaches come out with their latest poll.