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Simulated results — this week

Monte Carlo race simulations built on the predicted lineups — win probability and average finish, not just a single guessed winner.

How this is built: for each regatta, every school's predicted skipper(s) and their current Plackett–Luce rating are pulled from the lineup predictions. Each simulated race perturbs every skipper's rating with independent Gumbel(0,1) noise and sorts descending — the Gumbel–max trick, which produces an exact draw from the Plackett–Luce distribution those ratings were originally fit under, so the simulation uses the same generative model as the ratings themselves, not a separate approximation. Each school's team score in a simulated race is the sum of its skippers' finishing positions (standard low‑point team scoring: lower wins). Repeated 5,000 times per regatta; win / top‑3 / average‑rank are the fraction of simulations each school actually won, placed top 3, or its mean finishing rank across all of them.

Every regatta this week

SAISA North Top 6 Invite
UNC Wilmington · 09/12/2026 · 6 schools · 5,000 simulations
SchoolWin %Top 3 %Avg. rank
1College of Charleston49%96%1.7
2North Carolina State University33%92%2.1
3Clemson University9%57%3.3
4University of South Carolina4%27%4.1
5Duke University4%21%4.4
6University of North Carolina at Wilmington1%7%5.4
SAISA South Top 6 Invite
South Florida · 09/12/2026 · 6 schools · 5,000 simulations
SchoolWin %Top 3 %Avg. rank
1Jacksonville University28%71%2.7
2Eckerd College24%68%2.8
3Rollins College17%52%3.4
4University of South Florida16%52%3.4
5Florida State University9%32%4.2
6University of Miami7%25%4.6
Fall Fury
Wisconsin · 09/12/2026 · 11 schools · 5,000 simulations
SchoolWin %Top 3 %Avg. rank
1University of Michigan30%68%3.0
2Northwestern University20%56%3.6
3University of Wisconsin13%45%4.3
4Michigan Technological University11%32%5.1
5Western Michigan University9%30%4.4
6Hope College5%19%6.3
SAISA Women's Singlehanded Championship
U. Miami · 09/12/2026 · 5 schools · 5,000 simulations
SchoolWin %Top 3 %Avg. rank
1University of South Florida33%87%2.1
2College of Charleston31%55%2.9
3Rollins College23%84%2.5
4University of Miami12%67%3.0
5Florida Institute of Technology1%8%4.6
Riley Cup
Old Dominion · 09/12/2026 · 14 schools · 5,000 simulations
SchoolWin %Top 3 %Avg. rank
1Georgetown University29%66%3.1
2Virginia Tech18%49%4.1
3Penn State University17%45%4.3
4U. S. Naval Academy13%44%4.5
5George Washington University4%16%7.1
6University of Maryland4%16%7.2
Chester River Open
Washington College · 09/12/2026 · 4 schools · 5,000 simulations
SchoolWin %Top 3 %Avg. rank
1U. S. Naval Academy74%100%1.3
2Princeton University12%86%2.5
3Washington College10%82%2.7
4University of Delaware3%33%3.5
Mt. Hope Bay Invite
Roger Williams · 09/12/2026 · 5 schools · 5,000 simulations
SchoolWin %Top 3 %Avg. rank
1Roger Williams University38%85%2.1
2University of Rhode Island25%75%2.6
3U. S. Coast Guard Academy23%73%2.7
4Salve Regina University8%42%3.6
5Massachusetts Maritime Academy5%25%4.1
Penobscot Bay Open
Maine Maritime · 09/12/2026 · 8 schools · 5,000 simulations
SchoolWin %Top 3 %Avg. rank
1Northeastern University21%57%3.4
2McGill University15%47%3.9
3Massachusetts Maritime Academy15%44%4.2
4Salve Regina University13%39%4.4
5University of New Hampshire12%38%4.4
6Boston University9%29%5.0
Harman Cup
Maine Maritime · 09/12/2026 · 8 schools · 5,000 simulations
SchoolWin %Top 3 %Avg. rank
1Tufts University30%72%2.6
2Boston University20%59%3.2
3Bowdoin College19%57%3.3
4Northeastern University12%42%4.0
5Maine Maritime Academy9%31%4.6
6Massachusetts Maritime Academy4%17%5.6
Harry H. Anderson Jr. Trophy
Yale · 09/12/2026 · 17 schools · 5,000 simulations
SchoolWin %Top 3 %Avg. rank
1Brown University18%49%4.4
2Roger Williams University15%43%4.9
3Dartmouth College13%37%5.4
4Harvard University12%34%5.7
5Yale University10%30%6.1
6Boston College6%19%7.6
SAISA Open Singlehanded Championship
U. Miami · 09/12/2026 · 5 schools · 5,000 simulations
SchoolWin %Top 3 %Avg. rank
1Jacksonville University38%96%2.0
2North Carolina State University30%94%2.1
3University of Miami25%85%2.4
4College of Charleston5%18%4.2
5University of Central Florida2%8%4.3
Northeast Qualifier 1
Stony Brook · 09/13/2026 · 7 schools · 5,000 simulations
SchoolWin %Top 3 %Avg. rank
1SUNY Maritime College32%80%2.4
2Columbia University30%75%2.5
3U. S. Merchant Marine Academy26%75%2.6
4Hamilton College6%27%4.3
5SUNY Stony Brook4%20%4.9
6U. S. Military Academy3%17%5.1
SAISA North Fall Tournament
UNC Wilmington · 09/13/2026 · 12 schools · 5,000 simulations
SchoolWin %Top 3 %Avg. rank
1Clemson University29%68%2.9
2North Carolina State University27%68%2.9
3Vanderbilt University22%64%3.1
4University of Tennessee7%29%5.0
5University of South Carolina5%25%5.5
6Wake Forest University3%17%6.3
SAISA South Fall Tournament
South Florida · 09/13/2026 · 10 schools · 5,000 simulations
SchoolWin %Top 3 %Avg. rank
1University of Central Florida44%99%1.7
2Eckerd College36%82%2.3
3University of Florida7%39%4.0
4Florida Institute of Technology6%34%4.2
5Embry-Riddle University6%29%4.3
6University of Miami1%11%6.0