HOUGHTON, N.Y. -- Houghton Athletics ranks third after the fall season in the 2021-22 Empire 8 Commissioner's Cup standings.
The Highlanders finished the fall with a percentage total of 0.566 after a runner-up finish in men's soccer and third place finishes in men's and women's cross country.
Nazareth holds a slim lead over St. John Fisher for the top two spots in the rankings. The E8 will post updated Commissioner's Cup standings following the winter sports season and the final standings will be released in May after the completion of the spring sports campaign.
Commissioner's Cup points are awarded based on each team's finish in the Empire 8 conference standings at the completion of the regular season and post-season. Points are awarded on a scale dependent upon the number of schools that sponsor the sport (affiliate members are not calculated into the point scale). A team's regular season finish will be added to its post-season finish and divided by two for the final total for that sport.
Teams tied for a position in the regular season standings are ranked based on tiebreaker scenarios. The actual number of points earned is then divided by the amount of possible points for each school based on conference-sponsored sports to determine their overall percentage.
2021-22 Empire 8 Commissioner's Cup Standings
(After 2021 Fall Season)
| Institution |
Actual |
Possible |
Percentage |
| Nazareth |
51.75 |
57 |
0.90789474 |
| SJFC |
51.5 |
61 |
0.8442623 |
| Houghton |
32.25 |
57 |
0.56578947 |
| Alfred |
29.75 |
53 |
0.56132075 |
| Hartwick |
32.25 |
61 |
0.52868852 |
| Utica |
30.25 |
61 |
0.49590164 |
| Elmira |
13.25 |
35 |
0.37857143 |
| Russell Sage |
19 |
57 |
0.33333333 |
| Keuka |
13 |
41 |
0.31707317 |
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