Originally Posted by
Professor Chaos
Another thing to keep in mind when it comes to seeding the Big Sky and CAA teams is how the unbalanced conference schedule in those leagues makes the conference W/L record kind of misleading.
Amongst the Big Sky seed contenders these are the conference teams that they missed. In parenthesis is each opponents rank in the current Big Sky standings (note that while UND is technically an Independent games against them do count in the Big Sky conference standings).
EWU: Idaho St (T4), UND (N/A), Montana (T5), NAU* (10), Sacramento St (13)
Weber St: UC Davis (T1), Montana (T5), Portland St (T7), Cal Poly* (T7), Idaho (9)
UC Davis: Weber St (T1), Montana St (T5), UND (N/A), Portland St (T7), Southern Utah (12)
*Weber St played Cal Poly and EWU played NAU as OOC games (each won)
UC Davis seems to have the edge there for easiest schedule missing Weber St, Montana St, and UND.
For the CAA:
Maine: Delaware (T2), JMU (T2), Stony Brook (T2)
Delaware: Maine (1), JMU (T2), W&M (7)
JMU: Maine (1), Delaware (T2), Albany (12)
Stony Brook: Maine (1), Elon (6), W&M (7)
Towson: Rhode Island (T8), UNH (T8), Richmond (T10)
Elon: Stony Brook (T2), W&M* (7), Villanova (T10), Albany (12)
*Elon/W&M was scheduled but was a hurricane cancellation
Maine seemed to benefit the most here and Towson the least. Stony Brook and Delaware also had it a bit easier each missing 2 of the top 6 (all playoff contenders) and getting each of the bottom 5.
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