Not much to say here. I didn’t add BHSAT stats because I don’t have time to figure out the adjustment on it yet. Anyway, there’s not a whole lot of big moves on this one.
I’m working on a couple other things on the rankings that I hope to post in the next few weeks.
(Edit: corrections made on this set of rankings are listed before the jump)
Well, this took long enough.
I plan on doing a separate commentary post when time allows, but here’s the big news as far as the rankings:
1) Thomas Jefferson A lost one of their players to a transfer, causing their drop to 46th place from 8th.
2) Loyola’s strong performance at Huskie Bowl drives them into the top 5. The rest of their resume is comparable to that of Seven Lakes, and potentially expands the group of teams I currently consider the front line of national title contenders to five. However, Loyola’s current positioning depends in part on the difficulty of a set (Richard Montgomery/Torrey Pines’ housewrite) that has been played by a small number of teams, and a set with some quality criticisms. Note that my difficulty adjustments don’t have any real way to consider if something is well or poorly written (although appropriate difficulty would be part of a rubric used to evaluate a set).
3. There were a lot of teams moving in and out of the rankings; to save time, I’m skipping the section denoting these movements.
4. If pressed for a second tier of title contenders, I would probably place the cutoff after 14th place.
Edit 1: I was confused on which player left TJ; as a result, I’ve looked at the stats they had without that player, and have moved them to 31st for the time being.
Edit 2: I misread a statline for Auburn & moved them up accordingly. Also, I changed the date of the month. Not on this post, in reality. Thanks, Time Cube.
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This has taken a bit longer than I anticipated, but the newest update is in process. I have added all stats I could find prior to this past weekend, and am more than halfway through calculating new difficulty adjustments. After that work is complete, I’ll just have to shift around teams’ list of best performances and then move the rankings around as necessary. (For now, I’m pretending this past weekend of tournament never happened.)
If I had to estimate a completion date, it’d be Wednesday at the earliest.
I’ll touch upon this more in a later post once all the work is done, but currently it looks like we have what amounts to a jampacked race for the national championships. I have a tier of the top four favorites followed by about eight teams that, while contenders, would be somewhat surprising if they took home HSNCT or NSC.
I’m taking at least the next week off to focus on improving the rankings some, and to also get other things done. If I need more time, I’ll skip another week rather than rush back into this.
This post has been delayed by driving, work, and apparently losing EIGHT POUNDS~
So we have another shake up at the top. We also have some other minor changes.
Tournaments added this time: Texas Invitational, Texas ACF Regionals, Glen Gonsalves Memorial (Saturday & Sunday; Sunday is prelims only), Drake University Bulldog Bowl, Run for the Roses, and TJIAT (prelims only).
I’m going to delay the next update a little bit more than usual because I have a lot of maintenance work I want to get done on the rankings for this year, plus other things.
Tournaments added this time: RAVE, Huskie Bowl, WUHSAC, Georgia 5A Regionals, NAQT Vermont Championship, Kingston Area Tournament, Delaware Spring Tournament, Mort Walker Invitational, Parkview Invitational, STANLEY CUP (prelims only)
I forgot about TJIAT! Sorry.
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Completely random request, but I’ll roll it out there anyway: I’m just curious as to if this site has helped any teams. If you’d be interested in sharing them, email me at fredmorlan@gmail.com . I’ll post the (appropriate ones) on the site if I have a chance (of course, if you want to let me know but don’t want it published, mention that in the email and I’d happily follow your wishes).
No big changes at the very top. The highest spot where there was a change was 29th. Quite a bit of movement throughout, though, with 9 new teams and 7 teams making moves of 10 spots or more, including one going up almost 100 spots.
Tournaments added this time: Half Hollow Hills West Invitational, Standard division of Loyola Ultima, Rock Bridge Winter Invitational, Culver Varsity, Rube Goldberg Invitational, SnowCAT, Baby Anteater, Washington Winter Classic, IHSSBCA Kickoff at Centennial
Tournaments not added this time: WUHSAC, RAVE, Huskie Bowl. I need to try to put together adjustments for these sets.
The time needed for this is going to be spent elsewhere this week.
I’ve only added stats for Triton Winter & the Uber-Division of Loyola Ultima.
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