From: NCAA Media Coordination and Statistics Staff
This newsletter is put together by the NCAA national office media coordination and statistics staff specifically for SIDs. This will typically come out the first Wednesday of the month.
If you have any comments or anything you would like to see in the future, please contact Mark Bedics (mbedics@ncaa.org). This e-news is sent to every email address that we have on file through the statistics sport databases. If there is anyone else that needs to be added that did not receive it, please let us know. Thank you.
Championship Dates
HERE is a list of all finals sites for every division. Here is a calendar with all rounds of
NATIONAL COLLEGIATE Championships,
DIVISION I championships,
DIVISION II Championships and
DIVISION III Championships.
Fall Selection Information
There are 19 selections across fall sports, including 12 selection shows available only on NCAA.com. The full schedule of dates and times can be found
here. NOTE: All live selection shows will be found on the
NCAA.com homepage at the time listed on the chart.
NCAA Statistics Policies and Guidelines
Below are several highlights from the
NCAA Statistics Policies and Guidelines. Some of the information is taken directly from NCAA manuals and rules books, and additional material is included to help clarify inquiries the staff receives during the year. Policies are reviewed regularly and are endorsed by the
NCAA Statistics and Records Advisory Board. Sports information directors are encouraged to alert us to other areas not covered in this document that could be added to future versions.
Countable Opponents
Only games against varsity teams of four-year (or two-year senior colleges), degree-granting institutions that play a majority of their contests against U.S. college varsity teams shall be included in individual and team statistics, won-lost records and coaching records. This can include non-U.S. schools such as NAIA members British Columbia or Columbia Bible. For Division II only, countable competition also includes all four-year, degree-granting institutions located in Canada as defined in the NCAA Division II Manual Bylaw 31.3.3.1.
[See more on page eight.]
Changing Official Statistics
When an error or discrepancy in the official statistics is discovered after a contest has concluded and the official statistics have been distributed, the following procedure should be used.
If the sports information director of the home team discovers the error, that SID must alert the visiting team SID of the change and confirm them with the visiting team SID as soon as possible. If applicable, the home SID also must send a copy of the changes to the conference office as soon as possible. If the visiting SID needs to make a change in the final statistics, he or she must contact the home team’s SID within as soon as possible. If the home team SID agrees, then the home team SID must confirm the changes to the visiting SID and send a copy to the visiting SID and conference office (if applicable).
In all cases in all sports, if a change is to be made, the SID making the change must inform the other SID as soon as possible after the event or game has been played.
[See entire policy, including specifics for baseball and softball, on page 17.]
“No Contest” Declaration
There is no forfeit of a contest until all participating teams are present and the referee or other appropriate contest official has assumed jurisdiction in accordance with the applicable playing rules. When a team does not appear (e.g., due to weather conditions, accidents, breakdown of vehicles, illness or catastrophic circumstances, shortage of players), a forfeit is not recorded unless the rules of the sport provide that option. An institution shall not, for statistical purposes, declare a forfeit for nonfulfillment of a contest. Such instances shall be considered as “no contest.”
[See more on page 24.]
Team Minimum-Games Requirement
For a team and its individuals to be ranked, a team must play the minimum amount of contests required for sports sponsorship as stated in Bylaw Article 20 of the NCAA Manual. However, the NCAA statistics staff reserves the right to review on a case-by-case basis any unusual circumstances regarding sport minimums. If a team’s season is already in progress and then cancelled, and the team will not have enough games to meet the minimum requirement to rank at the end of the season, its team and individual statistics will be immediately dropped from the rankings once its season is cancelled. In addition, beginning in 2015-16, teams must meet the divisional scheduling requirements to be eligible for championship consideration as specified by the Division II or III Championships Committee, specific sport committee, and NCAA Bylaws 17, 20 and 31.
[See more on page 21.]
Playing Rules
In order for a contest to be counted in an institution’s record and statistics, institutions must follow NCAA Bylaw 17.29, which states that a member institution shall conduct all intercollegiate competition in accordance with the NCAA playing rules in all sports for which the NCAA develops playing rules.
Student-Athletes Dismissed from Team
If a student-athlete is dismissed from a team before the end of the season, the name of the student-athlete must remain on the roster and in the statistics if that student-athlete participated in any contests during the season.
[See more on pages 7-8.]