Legacy Website LaxPower Set to Begin Comeback

For roughly two decades, the website LaxPower played an integral role in helping to fuel interest in the sport. Now, with the help of USA Lacrosse, lacrosse fans will be able to access some of the information traditionally found on LaxPower.

Working with LaxPower founder Larry Feldman, USA Lacrosse is supporting the return of college power ratings and tournament predictions for the launch of the new entity. Plans are underway to bring back more of the content from the original LaxPower, including years of archived data.

The new information can be found at: https://www.laxmath.com/laxpower/index.html

LaxPower’s legacy is honored with a pillar near Tierney Field at USA Lacrosse headquarters in Sparks, Md. The plaque on the pillar reads:

In April of 1987, Lawrence Feldman generated a power rating system for Division I men’s lacrosse. When the results were published on the website ‘College Lacrosse USA’, it launched a new website called LaxPower.

In the ensuing years, a core group was assembled to support schedules, scores and ratings of college and high school lacrosse. Not only did the power rating based on goal differential help measure the comparative strength of college teams, it also provided the seeding for high school state championship tournaments and then national ratings. Aside from ratings, LaxPower provided timely lacrosse news, lacrosse rules, classified lacrosse ads, lacrosse links, team websites, All-Americans and up-to-date scoreboards.

In addition, a forum was created for the lax community where members expressed their views on all subject matters related to lacrosse. This forum exploded with a membership in excess of 60,000 patrons and became the place to visit for the timeliest sharing of lacrosse news and opinions.

At its peak, LaxPower was annually drawing 101 million page views, 17 million visits and 4.1 million unique visitors a year. A typical day during the season would bring in excess of 70,000 visitors to the website.

Core Members

Lawrence Feldman (Founder and Mathematician)
Larry played lacrosse at Penn.

Dan Larsen (Administrator)
Dan was the key individual in bringing all aspects of the website together.

Bob Kroshefsky (Director of Men’s Lacrosse) 
Bob played lacrosse at RPI and later POCO.

George Baldassare (Director of High School Boys and Forum Administrator) 
George was an assistant high school coach and organized the Daniel Hand Jamboree.

George Hollenbeck (Director of High School Girls) 
George maintained up to 3,000 high school girls teams during the lacrosse season.

Bill Allen (Director of Women’s and High School Recruits) 
Bill was a co-founder and first president of the Philadelphia Girls Lacrosse Association (PAGLA)

There were numerous other individuals responsible for the success of LaxPower and that includes Steve Layne, Don Fisher, Dan Driscoll, Jimmy Oliver and James Flaherty.

LaxPower was featured in Sports Illustrated, ESPN the Magazine, Lacrosse Magazine and quoted by ESPN broadcasts and hundreds of newspapers. LaxPower was awarded the 2002 USILA E. Doyle Smith Media award. Active Networks purchased LaxPower in 2007 and closed the doors in July 2019. An article was written by Lee Roggenburg entitled ‘A Sad Day For the Sport of Lacrosse’ paying tribute to the contributions of LaxPower over the prior 22 years.