I can only imagine the lead J Dub must have now.

Here is the list based on seasons 56-60.

There are 10 new schools.... although Johnson St. should have been on the list last season too. 

Louisiana and Susquehanna are tied for 13... the tie-breaker is usually the determined by the team that did best most recently.  Amazingly, they have the exact same results the past 5 seasons in NT, so I just left them tied.  I think I got the other tie-breakers correct. 

I also added the total score column, so you can see how close you are relative to other teams.

 

S. 59 Rank	S.60 Rank	School	Total
1	1	Johnson & Wales	131
3	2	Hardin-Simmons	123.2
2	3	Rose-Hulman Tech	115.9
9	4	Greensboro	115.4
5	5	Rivier	111.3
4	6	Millsaps	109.8
6	7	Penn St., Altoona	109.3
8	8	Emmanuel	107.8
7	9	Defiance	103
12	10	Whittier	99.1
16	11	Cornell	97.7
20	12	Dickinson	97.7
11	13	Susquehanna	96.6
15	13	Louisiana	96.6
13	15	Wentworth Tech.	95
18	16	Texas Lutheran	93.5
26	17	U.S. Merchant Marines	92.5
22	18	Calvin	92.2
14	19	Ursinus College	92
19	20	Vassar	91.8
17	21	Rensselaer Poly.	90.7
31	22	Martin Luther	90.4
36	23	Connecticut	90.2
34	24	Dubuque	90
35	25	East Connecticut St.	89.7
21	26	Eureka	89.5
na	27	Johnson St.	88.3
28	28	Elizabethtown	87.8
na	29	John Carroll	86.8
24	30	Wabash	86.5
10	31	Newbury	86.5
na	32	CSU, Eastbay	86.1
30	33	Washington (MO)	86.1
32	34	New York U.	86
27	35	East Oregon	85.8
39	36	Capital	85.6
na	37	Northland	84.3
33	38	Bates	82.6
na	39	Brandeis	82.4
na	40	Sewanee	80.9
38	41	Union	80.7
na	42	St. Joseph's (ME)	79.8
23	43	Rutgers, Camden	79.8
42	44	Ohio Northern	79
na	45	Chapman	78.4
43	46	Yeshiva	78.2
40	47	Umass, Dartmouth	77.9
25	48	Adrian	76
na	49	Beuna Vista	75.8
44	50	Rhodes	75.2
41	51	Whitworth	74.9
na	52	Mount Union	70.2

sweet!  Made the list

Brian, does the formula take into account anything prior to the last 5 seasons?  I'm also curious how it's weighted if you can explain in brief.

Thanks for doing this.  Gives me something to shoot for.

Thanks for doing this- sweet to be on the list.

To qualify, must make post season 4 out of past 5 seasons (PT or NT).

=(I2*1)+(H2*0.9)+(G2*0.8)+(F2*0.7)+(E2*0.6)

This is the formula - 100% of the points are counted from the most recent completed season.  90% from 2 seasons ago, 80% from 3, 70% from 4, and 60% from 5....

The points are all based on how far team advanced in post season.

Point values:

national champ - 38 points
runner up - 35
final four - 32
elite 8 - 28
sweet 16 - 25
second round - 23
1st round - 22

PIT winner - 24
runner up - 23
semis - 22
3rd round - 21
2nd round - 20
1st round - 19

My modification of non-post season point value (slightly different than Al's):
If one year the team doesn't make the PT or NT:
conference regular season champ - 13
rpi better than 100 - 12
101 to 132 -- 10
133 to 175 - 9
less than 175 - 6

tie breakers - most recent season, and keep going backwards if still tied...

Interesting.  I kinda figured recent seasons were weighted more heavily, but I guess not.  I think sweet 16 and higher should be weighted more.  Thanks for sharing.

Yes, it definitely favors more recent seasons, but not by a huge amount.  The NT/PT points assigned are exactly what Al Black does. 

He does something slightly different for a season that a team misses the PT or NT... but I found it kind of confusing.  So I just made up those criteria, loosely based on his method.

PIT winner shouldn't be worth more than 2nd round NT.  I also think if 2nd round is 23, sweet 16 should be more like 30.  Then E8 - Champ could be between 35 and 45.  But that's just one guy's opinion.

Nice work compiling this brian -- good job and many thanks (even if I'm not on the list...yet...maybe...hopefully...someday possibly in a galaxy far, far away)

Thanks Brian, great list.  56 teams qualify now -- Rupp D3 is getting tougher and tougher.

Nice work. Good to see Howard Payne of the ASC on the list.

Posted by jack_duck on 10/29/2012 4:58:00 PM (view original):
Thanks Brian, great list.  56 teams qualify now -- Rupp D3 is getting tougher and tougher.

The list has grown from 40, 43, 44, 52, 56 over 5 seasons. 
The list has grown from 40, 43, 4, 52, 56, to 62 over 6 seasons...

9.  :)