Howard Gensler
Postdoc
Posts: 4141
Reg: 11-21-04
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03-07-10 01:42 AM - Post#78061
In response to puband09
The Pomeroy site goes back to 2004 so that's what I did. Feel free to go back further.
Ivy League rank:
2010: 23
2009: 26
2008: 27
2007: 21
2006: 28
2005: 20
2004: 23
The League is better than it has been the previous two years because with the drop off of the Ps, the last two years have been typically pathetic at the bottom but also very weak at the top. This year has been more like a typical Ivy year except instead of having two very good teams and 6 not good teams there has been 1 very good team, two pretty good teams and 5 not good teams. Having a third good team makes it similar to 2002. But when you basically have 10 gimme wins at the bottom of the conference (as is the case most years, unless there are 12 gimme wins), being 10-3 at this point is where Princeton should be (except they should have split with Harvard and beaten Brown).
I'm not denigrating Princeton's accomplishment, merely saying that you're using a very short measuring stick if you think the conference is appreciably better this year that it has been, on average, over the past 10 or 20 years. It's just appreciably better than it has been the past two years - when it was awful.
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