07-08-2011, 02:49 PM
I think lacrosse is 2X in the scoring because ESPN shows a lot of lacrosse and anything that generates even a smidgen more interest in lacrosse (contrived perhaps) is a good thing; not because Stanford doesn't do lacrosse and they want to specifically screw Stanford.
In any event, the easy thing is to ignore the Capital One Cup. The one thing arguing against my position that this is mostly related to advertisement for ESPN's favorite college sports, is that people watching ESPN probably really don't care about this competition and aren't going to tune into a lacrosse game just because some weird cup is on the line.
And it would be really easy just to weight points in any given sport by multiplying that score by the number of teams playing that sport.
Here are two more questions. Which program is best? Which program will score higher in the Directors Cup?
Program A sponsors 35 sports teams; one of them wins a conference and national title; another team wins a conference title; a total of 20 teams reach their playoffs, and three of those teams finish their respective playoffs no worse than 8th place; or
Program B sponsors 15 sports teams and four of those teams win conference titles. 10 teams participate in post-season tournaments; two of those teams finish in no worse than 8th place. One of those teams wins a national title.
(These are completely made up programs by the way; any blind match to some actual program is purely coincidental. There is probably some minimum number of teams to be in Division 1 and it might be more than 15.)
In any event, the easy thing is to ignore the Capital One Cup. The one thing arguing against my position that this is mostly related to advertisement for ESPN's favorite college sports, is that people watching ESPN probably really don't care about this competition and aren't going to tune into a lacrosse game just because some weird cup is on the line.
And it would be really easy just to weight points in any given sport by multiplying that score by the number of teams playing that sport.
Here are two more questions. Which program is best? Which program will score higher in the Directors Cup?
Program A sponsors 35 sports teams; one of them wins a conference and national title; another team wins a conference title; a total of 20 teams reach their playoffs, and three of those teams finish their respective playoffs no worse than 8th place; or
Program B sponsors 15 sports teams and four of those teams win conference titles. 10 teams participate in post-season tournaments; two of those teams finish in no worse than 8th place. One of those teams wins a national title.
(These are completely made up programs by the way; any blind match to some actual program is purely coincidental. There is probably some minimum number of teams to be in Division 1 and it might be more than 15.)
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