Three weeks ago this list looked at four April A Finals — King's Crown, Mercer Lake, the Exeter Invitational, Noxontown — and read them into a top ten that had never raced as a single field. Stotesbury was supposed to be the weekend that fixed that.
It mostly wasn't. The US Men's V8+ field on the Schuylkill was PSRA, WMIRA, VASRA, and NYSSRA — leagues for whom Philadelphia is a bus ride. The April top six — Greenwich, Norcal, Marin, Kent, PNRA/Mercer, and Cincinnati Juniors — sat the regatta out. The only April top-ten entrant was Whitman, who finished third in the Championship Final by 0.07 seconds to a Montclair programme not on any public Power-10 going in.
What the weekend produced for the rating wasn't a top-ten reshuffle from the result. It was a top-ten reshuffle from what the result implied about everyone else's strength of schedule. Crews that didn't race lost a small amount of RPI as the model recalibrated. Crews that did race either gained on the result (St. Joe's, Cincinnati Juniors on the bubble) or lost more (Kent and Andover, two NEIRA crews who stayed home, both drop two ranks).
The new order is below. Numbers are post-Stotesbury, model v0.9.6, dated 2026-05-17. RPI is on the same four-digit scale published at launch, anchored around 1500.
| Pos | Team | Time | RPI Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. Joseph's Prep | 4:51.710 | - |
| 2 | Montclair | 4:54.300 | - |
| 3 | Whitman | 4:54.370 | - |
| 4 | Yorktown | 5:04.660 | - |
| 5 | Jackson-Reed | 5:08.180 | - |
| 6 | Chaminade | 5:08.860 | - |
The Men's V8+ list (US)
1. Greenwich (▲2)
Greenwich sat at US #3 (RPI 1993) on 14 May. They didn't enter Stotesbury. By Sunday evening on 17 May they were US #1 at RPI 1986 — a seven-point drop in absolute rating, a two-rank rise as the model recalibrated Norcal and Marin downward against the Stotesbury field they had outperformed in April. Their interval (1934–2036, a 102-point range) is the tightest top-of-table interval in any US Men's boat class on this site. The model's most-confident pre-SRAA statement, and the one the next ten days of racing will test hardest.
2. Norcal (▼1)
The strongest Southwest result of the spring — the San Diego Crew Classic A Final win on March 29 — held its weight better than the rest of the regional priors. Norcal drop one but stay inside Greenwich's interval. They surrendered 53 points of RPI (2014 → 1961), the largest absolute non-racer loss in the top five, on a field-strength recalibration the model applied to every Southwest crew that didn't travel east this spring.
3. Marin (▼1)
Marin drop one rank and 80 points of RPI — the largest non-racer rating loss in the top ten. The same regional caveat applies, with the additional context that Marin had a wider April interval and a longer race book, so a recalibration based on opponent strength bites slightly harder.
4. Deerfield
Deerfield hold US #4 with the widest interval in the top ten (1777–2031, a 254-point range). NEIRA priors do their work here: the cleanest Exeter Invitational result of the spring, no cross-region racing yet. SRAA will tighten the interval more than any other single result the model has on its near calendar.
5. Phillips Exeter
The second NEIRA crew on the list and the second to carry a wide interval. Phillips Exeter at RPI 1879 with a 143-point range. The model is reserving room.
6. Cincinnati Juniors (▲4)
The biggest mover in the top ten without a Stotesbury race. Cincinnati Juniors rose four places — from US #10 to US #6 — as the model reweighted their King's Crown A Final third-place finish from late April against the Stotesbury-confirmed strength of PSRA and WMIRA. They are now ahead of every NEIRA crew except Deerfield and Exeter. The interval (1816–1922) sits on the tighter side of the cluster.
7. St. Joseph's Prep (▲2)
St. Joseph's Prep won Stotesbury and rose two places, from US #9 to US #7. The model's restraint is intentional. The Final was won by 2.59 seconds over Montclair, who is not a top-ten crew on this site, and by 12.95 seconds over the next-best regional opponent. A Stotesbury win against the boats that raced is informative about the regional pecking order. It is less informative about the cross-region one. St. Joe's needed to win to hold their top-ten place. They did, and they did so cleanly. SRAA is the regatta where they either close the interval to Greenwich or don't.
Head-to-Head Record
Most-raced opponents — win/loss based on finishing position in shared races
| Opponent | W | L | Record |
|---|---|---|---|
| PNRA/Mercer | 10 | 3 | 77% |
| Greenwich | 4 | 6 | 40% |
| D.C. National | 7 | 1 | 88% |
| St. Andrews | 7 | 0 | 100% |
| Jackson-Reed | 7 | 0 | 100% |
| Montclair | 5 | 1 | 83% |
| Chaminade | 6 | 0 | 100% |
| Gonzaga | 4 | 1 | 80% |
| La Salle | 5 | 0 | 100% |
| Lawrenceville | 5 | 0 | 100% |
St. Joseph's Prep vs most-faced opponents across all recorded races
8. PNRA/Mercer (▲3)
PNRA/Mercer didn't race Stotesbury. They rose three places to US #8 on the same recalibration. Their interval (1822–1892, a 70-point range) is the narrowest in the boat class — fifteen rated races on the books and the cleanest data shape of any crew on the public table. The model's reading is unchanged: PNRA/Mercer are the strongest body-of-work entry on this list and the boat the model is least willing to move on a single weekend, either way.
9. Andover (▼2)
Andover drop two ranks as Cincinnati Juniors and St. Joe's leapt past. The NEIRA prior recalibrated the most of any league this weekend: Stotesbury didn't expose NEIRA's weaknesses (no NEIRA crew raced), it just produced strong PSRA results that the model now weights against the strongest NEIRA crews' regional opposition. The interval widens slightly (1733–1946), an honest reading on a thin body of cross-region data.
10. Kent (▼2)
Kent, the cleanest pre-Stotesbury NEIRA résumé in the boat class, drops two on the same regional context. Four straight A Final wins through April still puts them in the public top ten, but a wider interval (1759–1900) reflects a body of cross-region racing that hasn't yet happened. SRAA is the test.
The 2V8+ picture
The Men's 2V8+ at Stotesbury was the most dominant single result of the weekend. St. Joseph's Prep won the Final in 5:05.80 — 9.73 seconds clear of St. Peters — after winning the Friday time trial in 4:29.61 and their Saturday semi convincingly. The rating now puts them at US #1 in the boat class at RPI 2021, ahead of Greenwich (RPI 1976) and the recalibrated NEIRA contenders.
The recalibration ran deeper here than in any other US boat class on the weekend. Top crews lost between 90 and 260 RPI points as the model adjusted its field-strength prior to reflect the Stotesbury 2V's strength against what April said the 2V should look like. Deerfield, the pre-Stotesbury US #1 in the boat class, lost the most (259 points, 2200 → 1941) and drops to US #4 without having raced. Kent lost 210 points (2141 → 1931) and drops to US #5. Greenwich rise into US #2; Newport and Marin hold the chasing cluster.
| Pos | Team | Time | RPI Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. Joseph's Prep | 5:05.800 | - |
| 2 | St. Peters | 5:15.530 | - |
| 3 | Yorktown | 5:16.150 | - |
| 4 | Chaminade | 5:17.650 | - |
| 5 | St. Albans | 5:18.100 | - |
| 6 | Jackson-Reed | 5:24.230 | - |
The Men's 2V8+ list (US)
The 9.73-second margin in the Stotesbury Final is the largest A-Final finishing margin the model has scored this spring in any boat class. St. Joe's interval (1953–2104, a 151-point range) is unusually narrow for a crew with six rated races; the model is making a strong statement about confidence given the data thickness. SRAA is where the rest of the boat class either closes the gap or watches it grow.
Saturday's most-rated trip wire: St. Peters finished second by 9.73 seconds and ten seconds clear of Yorktown. Their team page reflects the model's reaction. They have not yet raced enough cross-region opposition for the public table; SRAA will fix that.
What's missing, what's next
Andover — the model's #13 in the Men's 2V8+ after dropping five places — sit just outside the boat class's public top ten. The British schools — St. Pauls, Hampton, Radley, Shiplake, Westminster, Eton — sit ahead of every US crew on this site's global Men's V8+ leaderboard going into the National Schools' Regatta on May 22. Their first-look ranking is in the British rankings preview published alongside this refresh.
SRAA Youth National Championships are at the end of May. Greenwich, Norcal, Marin, Kent, PNRA/Mercer, Cincinnati Juniors, St. Joseph's Prep, Whitman, and Andover are all entered. The next reading of the rankings will be the first reading that has all of them on the same body of water. Until then, this is the order the rating produces.