Best Men’s College Distance Crews: Week Two

I began last week with the women, now onto the men. I felt the explanation was nice and concise, so here you go:

“Yeah, this is a bit of a dead zone in my coverage, and while I’m having fun going back through previous state meet ratings, I do want to throw a little something out there.

This type of track coverage on my end started two years ago and was really honed in on during last spring. Last spring’s version broke down groups by event category, assigned my own version of World Athletics Scores to each time, and then compiling all those to rank each crew.

These are calculated similarly. Thankfully, all the main collegiate events (800m, Mile, 3000m, and 5000m) have World Athletics scores associated.

• For each of those four events, a team’s top times are averaged
  • These are up to the top-4, depending on how many of their athletes have competed in the event
• From those averages, the corresponding World Athletics Score is found, then that score is multiplied by the number of athletes from each event
• A school’s top three events are added together and those sums are then ranked
• These are all marks that were on TFRRS as of Sunday night and contain those running for their school (no unattached athletes).

These aren’t predictive in any way, just a calculation based on what has already occurred. Hopefully, they’re a way to show which distance crews punch above their division and highlight which schools specialize in certain events. I’ll be doing these each week, alternating between women and men.“

Rank	Team	800m	Mile	3000m	5000m	Total Points
1	Michigan	4036	4200	4172	1089	12408
2	Michigan State	3660	4112	4120	1974	11892
3	Grand Valley St.	3816	3732	3836	3736	11388
4	Saginaw Valley	3628	3528	3576	3508	10732
5	Oakland	3256	3420	3580	3452	10452
6	Eastern Michigan	2643	3796	3212	3348	10356
7	Northwood	3168	3612	3464	3140	10244
8	Aquinas	3164	3368	3436	3152	9968
9	Hope	3248	3172	3504	2976	9924
10	Hillsdale	3492	3352	2948	0	9792
11	Cornerstone	3420	3196	3008	1830	9624
12	Spring Arbor	3420	3220	2896	2732	9536
13	Davenport	3008	1692	3060	2932	9000
14	Ferris State	1983	2936	2840	2872	8648
15	Lawrence Tech	2956	3104	2388	689	8448
16	Rochester	2308	2872	2632	2508	8012
17	Siena Heights	3004	2612	2208	1148	7824
18	Detroit Mercy	1576	3160	3064	1332	7800
19	Adrian	3000	2200	1404	2328	7528
20	Calvin	0	2920	3108	1396	7424
21	Madonna	2488	1494	2804	1104	6786
22	Lake Superior State	2144	2620	1803	594	6567
23	Olivet	2188	2288	1935	0	6411
24	Albion	2040	1828	2272	2032	6344
25	Alma	2504	2468	1020	676	5992
26	Concordia	2160	2420	636	755	5335
27	Central Michigan	751	0	3400	0	4151
28	Muskegon CC	1244	2072	819	0	4135
29	Cleary	2096	1452	441	0	3989
30	SW Michigan	826	774	1098	0	2698
31	St. Clair County CC	0	0	0	422	422

Team	Event	Athletes	Avg. Time
Michigan	800m	4	1:50.6
Grand Valley St.	800m	4	1:52.6
Michigan State	800m	4	1:54.0
Saginaw Valley	800m	4	1:54.3
Hillsdale	800m	4	1:55.6
Cornerstone	800m	4	1:56.3
Spring Arbor	800m	4	1:56.3
Oakland	800m	4	1:57.9
Hope	800m	4	1:58.0
Northwood	800m	4	1:58.8
Aquinas	800m	4	1:58.8
Davenport	800m	4	2:00.4
Siena Heights	800m	4	2:00.4
Adrian	800m	4	2:00.4
Lawrence Tech	800m	4	2:00.9
Eastern Michigan	800m	3	1:55.3
Alma	800m	4	2:05.8
Madonna	800m	4	2:05.9
Rochester	800m	4	2:08.0
Olivet	800m	4	2:09.4
Concordia	800m	4	2:09.8
Lake Superior State	800m	4	2:10.0
Cleary	800m	4	2:10.5
Albion	800m	4	2:11.2
Ferris State	800m	3	2:04.2
Detroit Mercy	800m	2	1:58.9
Muskegon CC	800m	2	2:06.0
SW Michigan	800m	2	2:16.3
Central Michigan	800m	1	2:00.4

Team	Event	Athletes	Avg. Time
Michigan	Mile	4	4:02.1
Michigan State	Mile	4	4:03.8
Eastern Michigan	Mile	4	4:10.6
Grand Valley St.	Mile	4	4:12.0
Northwood	Mile	4	4:14.6
Saginaw Valley	Mile	4	4:16.5
Oakland	Mile	4	4:18.9
Aquinas	Mile	4	4:20.1
Hillsdale	Mile	4	4:20.5
Spring Arbor	Mile	4	4:23.5
Cornerstone	Mile	4	4:24.1
Hope	Mile	4	4:24.7
Detroit Mercy	Mile	4	4:24.8
Lawrence Tech	Mile	4	4:26.3
Ferris State	Mile	4	4:30.4
Calvin	Mile	4	4:30.8
Rochester	Mile	4	4:31.9
Lake Superior State	Mile	4	4:38.4
Siena Heights	Mile	4	4:38.6
Alma	Mile	4	4:42.4
Concordia	Mile	4	4:43.7
Olivet	Mile	4	4:47.4
Adrian	Mile	4	4:49.9
Muskegon CC	Mile	4	4:53.5
Albion	Mile	4	5:01.0
Davenport	Mile	2	4:19.7
Madonna	Mile	2	4:29.1
Cleary	Mile	4	5:13.3
SW Michigan	Mile	2	5:10.0

Team	Event	Athletes	Avg. Time
Michigan	3000m	4	8:02.2
Michigan State	3000m	4	8:04.9
Grand Valley St.	3000m	4	8:17.0
Oakland	3000m	4	8:28.7
Saginaw Valley	3000m	4	8:28.9
Hope	3000m	4	8:32.2
Northwood	3000m	4	8:34.1
Aquinas	3000m	4	8:35.3
Central Michigan	3000m	4	8:37.0
Eastern Michigan	3000m	4	8:46.1
Calvin	3000m	4	8:51.2
Detroit Mercy	3000m	4	8:53.5
Davenport	3000m	4	8:53.7
Cornerstone	3000m	4	8:56.3
Hillsdale	3000m	4	8:59.4
Spring Arbor	3000m	4	9:01.9
Ferris State	3000m	4	9:04.8
Madonna	3000m	4	9:06.8
Rochester	3000m	4	9:15.8
Lawrence Tech	3000m	4	9:29.3
Albion	3000m	4	9:35.9
Siena Heights	3000m	4	9:39.8
Olivet	3000m	3	9:18.7
Lake Superior State	3000m	3	9:28.4
Adrian	3000m	2	9:06.5
SW Michigan	3000m	2	9:40.5
Alma	3000m	2	9:49.9
Muskegon CC	3000m	1	8:43.1
Concordia	3000m	2	10:42.3
Cleary	3000m	1	10:07.5

Team	Event	Athletes	Avg. Time
Michigan	5000m	1	13:33.8
Michigan State	5000m	2	14:04.1
Grand Valley St.	5000m	4	14:20.2
Saginaw Valley	5000m	4	14:38.1
Oakland	5000m	4	14:42.7
Eastern Michigan	5000m	4	14:51.1
Aquinas	5000m	4	15:07.3
Northwood	5000m	4	15:08.4
Concordia	5000m	1	15:18.5
Hope	5000m	4	15:22.6
Davenport	5000m	4	15:26.1
Ferris State	5000m	4	15:31.6
Calvin	5000m	2	15:38.9
Lawrence Tech	5000m	1	15:41.9
Spring Arbor	5000m	4	15:44.1
Alma	5000m	1	15:46.9
Detroit Mercy	5000m	2	15:50.2
Rochester	5000m	4	16:05.0
Cornerstone	5000m	3	16:11.4
Lake Superior State	5000m	1	16:17.5
Adrian	5000m	4	16:22.3
Siena Heights	5000m	2	16:25.9
Madonna	5000m	2	16:34.2
Albion	5000m	4	16:52.6
St. Clair County CC	5000m	1	17:30.3