My own pet peeve is when folks use `?.let {} ?:` instead of if/else when checking null

It's less readable, and more error prone (because if "doThing()" accidentally returns null, then you end up running the ?: branch, which often is not what you actually want.

Now, it’s definitely the case that at most half of the current top 120 are good enough teams to be in contention for a Pool C bid. But that’s for you to eyeball at this point.

Emmanuel has 1 banked impactful win, and 6 remaining.
RIC has 0 and 8
Guilford has 0 and 9
Arcadia has 0 and 10
…
Wartburg has 1 and 17
Tufts has 1 and 21
you start to get the idea!

Southern Virginia has just 1 banked Impactful Win so far. They have only 4 remaining. Because Guilford is one of those, tonight’s game is massively impactful for Southern Virginia’s Pool C hopes (not commenting on Pool A hopes).

Hamilton (119%)
MIT (118%)
U of New England (118%)
Vassar (115%)
UW-Platteville (113%)
Trinity CT (111%)
Wartburg (111%)
Tufts (108%)

The percentage itself doesn’t mean/imply anything, but where you sit on the scale does.

For tonight’s games:
Southern Virginia (168%)
Emmanuel (143%)
RIC (138%)
Guilford (133%)
Arcadia (130%)
Ripon (130%)
Wheaton IL (125%)
Springfield (123%)
SJF (120%)

The model is still very much in flux as Massey, Efficiency, and NPI are all inputs, and all of those are shifting greatly b/c of small data, shaking off the dust of last year’s results, or other.

NPI ranks can shift by even 100 +- spots (off a single result!) this early in the year so it’s almost useless to look at the current NPI ranks.

This is the way.