@clark would you be able to reopen this week selections? I believe most of us didn’t realize it is closed Sunday night.
Should we always submit our selections by Sunday?
Weekend Recap:
Congrats to @2pointer who took first this round by 2(!) points. The strategy of picking teams in D3 seems to have paid off.
I received second and got the Pick of the Week™ with Points scored on USC’s MPSF Invite matchup vs CMS.
Honorable Mention to @wp2024 who received 3rd place, anchored by Fordham’s win over Mercyhurst.
The “bracket breaker” was UCSD vs Princeton which caused a couple of swings in the round’s standings.
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There is a VERY tight race for the overall lead.
@Jeff is currently leading with 117 points with 5 other players within striking distance at 100+ points.
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@wp2024 You beat me here by about 2 minutes 
I pushed the selection window back for this already. If you refresh your page, you should see the last week’s picks + points and the ability to pick for this week.
By default the selection close on Monday morning @ 2AM
My workflow is something like:
On Sunday night or Monday morning,
- Validate the results
- Forward results to fantasy system
- Check when a reasonable time to close round selections actually is and adjust.
- Write snappy recap
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Thank you. I just landed back from a trip abroad and the first two things I do is checking the market , fantasy water polo, and find a cup of coffee.
I think 2pointer also is the all time record holder of highest points in a week with 67.
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If we only have 4 teams playing this week are we basically SOL?
Correct, I figure everyone is going to get a turn getting bit by this as the season progresses.
A lot of the early season tournaments are giving us a lot of games, I’m expecting that to taper off as we move into conference play.
The only caveat to this is something like MPSF Invite last week where my original schedule pull didn’t grab matches where opponents were TBD. So if there’s another tournament that your teams are playing in that aren’t listed, let me know and I can pull in any new matches that have been canonized.
@clark - I’m not sure what happened but I only have 1 pick selected. Any chance you can update my picks for me. I can dm them this evening. Thx.
@WaPo ya, send em over
The results are in!
Congrats to @anon39560856 for leading this round.
Congrats to @wp2024 for taking second and making the most valuable pick for 21 points (Fordham vs Wagner)
Congrats to @2pointer’s consistency with another podium finish.
@rolled1 also had a 21 point pick: Johns Hopkins over Mt St Mary’s. I believe that this is the 3rd week in a row where JH was one of the fantasy darlings due to their high scoring matches.
In the overall standings, @2pointer has taken the lead with 169 points. @anon39560856 and @wp2024 trail tightly with 166 points. @Jeff and myself are representing the moderators with 165 and 163 points respectively.
This week’s picks are due by Wednesday at 7PM Pacific.
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@clark Thank you again. We are starting to have a sample size, the number to beat consistently to be on top of Fantasy is 57 points per week. East coast teams appear to be the gold mine.
Suggestion, is it easy to code ‘% of perfect selection’ ? That is, based on the matches available for each participant in a specific weekend, what would have been their ideal selection in order to achieve max points? and then calculate, ACTUAL / PERFECT SELECTION ?
Ya, I can wrap my head around that. There’s a few things on my radar, this might end up being an “end of season report card” depending on timing
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Hey all , reminder that selections are due tomorrow afternoon.
I added a few of the missing games for the Troyer tournament. It looks like there was some schedule churn in the last few days.
Please verify that your matches are indeed scheduled on the website here:
We are all so lucky this is a relative game…..tough week to all Fantasy players, and in the ‘easy’ selection of wins and losses. As the season progresses, it becomes more exciting and humbling.
Indeed, this was a relatively low-scoring affair and recap is here!
Congratulations to @WaPo who scored the magic number of 57 to edge out @wp2024 with a strong showing at 56.
This was followed by a closer in the middle that @Jeff led 49 points.
With the exciting weekend of competition behind us, this is really the first time that we’ve seen more than a couple misses on results.
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On the season, @wp2024 has broken ahead to first with 222 points. He is trailed by @2pointer, @Jeff, and @anon39560856 who are roughly 1 correct pick behind.
Picks will close on Wednesday at 7PM PT
Both Rolled1 and WP2024 fell into the Brown vs. Iona trap. Lesson learned: don’t bet against “shallow-pool” experts in their home pool.
If anyone wants a “Shallow-Pool Championship” challenge, this week Iona plays LIU ; the ultimate Battle of the Shallow Pools.
For the California crowd, I doubt there’s even one shallow pool across all West Coast NCAA D-I and D-III programs. You might want to watch just one quarter of a game in a shallow pool. It’s an experience.
After reading ChatGPT’s take on the origins of the sport, I think I would’ve preferred watching the 1800s version of water polo.
Origins in the 1800s
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Water polo began in England and Scotland in the mid-19th century, originally as a form of “aquatic rugby.”
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It was played in rivers, lakes, and ponds, not in swimming pools — and these natural bodies of water were often muddy, cold, and shallow in parts.
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Players could stand on the bottom in some areas, especially near the goals, and would often wrestle or tackle each other to gain control of a bladder-filled rubber ball.
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The sport was extremely physical — closer to water-based wrestling or rugby than modern water polo.
Why “polo”?
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The name “polo” came from the Indian game of pulu (meaning “ball”), which British soldiers knew from horse polo.
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They adapted it to the water — initially as “water rugby” or “aquatic football”, before the name water polostuck.
Transition to Pools
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In the late 1800s, indoor swimming pools became more common, especially in London and Glasgow.
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The game’s rules evolved: the sport moved from grappling in shallow rivers to swimming and passing in deep pools, emphasizing skill and speed rather than brute strength.
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Scotland and England debated the style — Scotland favored a swimming-based, all-deep game, while England clung to the older, rougher “standing” version for a while.
@clark would it be possible to update the scores file
Many thanks!
I just opened my instagram feed and Zuckerberg seems to follow my WPEX posts. I had to share this with you: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPdZHO2jGzD/?igsh=emg4MjZxY3E4MHp5
At least it is free pool time…
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This is done, there’s some crud in this dataset but largely still usable.
If there’s any missing scores or corrections, let me know and I’ll fix it.
Additionally, I’ve seen sources that claim that a “goal” was just getting the ball from one end of the dock by any means necessary (swimming with it underwear, etc)
Goalkeepers were also able to literally jump from the dock onto players attempting to score.
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Ughhh. Missed the 7pm deadline. 