Finally, everyone has announced their schedules. And thankfully, IL has uploaded them to their team pages. Now we can get back to the fun stuff. And of course, if you’ve read any of Lacrosse Reference, you know that fun stuff means: using our Lax-ELO ratings to evaluate the strength of schedule for each D1 lacrosse […]
Each week, we will look back at the games that were to see which players had the largest individual performances. I say largest because the contributions that we can measure (from play by play) tend to be things that are easy to count. This includes, goals, shots, assists, turnovers, penalties, etc. We can’t measure a […]
We’ve waited for months. I’m sure you know someone who can tell you how many days it has been since Maryland hoisted the trophy in Foxborough. But it’s here. Lacrosse season is here.There is something about the spring sports coming back, when winter is on its last legs and sunnier days are ahead. Hope springs […]
As we went through our geographically focused talent analyses over the past few weeks, I was always harping on the fact that there isn’t good data on recruits before they reach campus. Well that’s not entirely true. Inside Lacrosse has, for years, published a top 100 for incoming freshmen. It’s not comprehensive because it doesn’t […]
Our last post was about total Twitter followers and how the D1 Men’s programs stack up. Twitter is an important part of building a brand, and the brand is important in recruiting, so this stuff has some salience this time of year. But outside of the recruiting impacts, social media can tell us something about […]
Twitter is an extremely interesting animal. It is simultaneously one of the best tools ever created for sharing ideas and one of the most nefarious channels for spreading malevolence. It’s a platform that has become a key part of our social consciousness and a company struggling to make ends meet. It’s among the most important […]
The original point of looking at talent geography was to understand how the geographic distribution of lacrosse players around the country (and world) impacts the various D1 programs. To put it another way: to what extent does a school’s geography lock in a talent advantage or disadvantage? It’s an interesting question with Utah joining D1 […]
We’ve been doing a series of posts on geography in lacrosse, but today we’ll take a quick detour off that route. Today, we’ll talk about projecting production levels. In reality, this is a necessary detour in our geography series. But whether you’ve been following that or not, this post works as a standalone as well.The […]
There is a principle in sociology that effective groups can be no more than 150 people. If your company rises above 150 employees, you start to see a drop-off in overall efficiency. Nomadic social groups of pre-history seem to have been about that size. In effect, 150 people is about the maximum number of people […]
The announcement of Utah going D1 got us thinking about geography in lacrosse. Geography is important to Utah because they will become the western-most program in the U.S. That means they become the closest program to the fastest growing lacrosse regions in the country. But they are also the farthest away from the traditional east […]