With all due respect, is it simply a lack of interest or of information that prevents DBC and other sites to rank the women's crews?

or mens crews for that matter

It is lack of information and the relatively small number of crews. There are hundreds of mixed crews and only a handful of single gender crews. For the single gender crews it is often the usual suspects racing at each festival, so they know how they rank against their peers.

1. NDBC Women
2. Montreal women
3. FCRCC Women
9. OHDBC Women
10. Stratford women

Nope. I didn't misnumber the rankings.

can NDBC be called a club? their crew includes imports.

NDBC
montreal
FCRCC
Cascades
CSDC senior
outer harbour
PDBC
Outer Harbour senior

"With all due respect, is it simply a lack of interest or of information that prevents DBC and other sites to rank the women's crews?"

It's resources - i.e. person hours. If anyone is interested in investing time to make it happen I have all the data and can show you what to do.

truerankings@hotmail.com

PD

Hey PD. What program do you use to do the regression? Just excel or is it a different data analysis package altogether?

Just excel for the regressions (then access to build the rankings). For a women's rankings performing regressions would not be necessary (as the ones done for the mixed could just be applied). The bulk of the work would be tagging teams, building a tracking database, and running things through access.

PD

I'd add to that there is in fact aswell a general lack of interest.

I would say the sheer numbers. No offense, but I don't see it worthwhile to rank the BCS teams. However, of the top tiered women's teams (and I honestly offer my full respect to them), there are a limited amount of teams, and I would say that the ones who pay attention to the results know who the strong teams are.