2024 Rankings

[ModeratorMike]

How is Spur ranked 8 spots behind Ira when they are 5-0 & beat Ira in Ira on their Homecoming. Just curious

So this is just one of those where it's obvious that The Toy doesn't know who has played who. It just looks at team's rating, per week, and adjusts based on scores. Spur moved ahead of Ira in the rankings when they beat them. Ira actually dropped 41 points that week (fairly significant drop) and Spur gained 39 points (again, pretty significant gain). Spur has gained rating points every week this season, but they haven't gained a lot because they were already picked to win. Ira had a nice gain when they beat Robert Lee, because they were picked to lose that game. Then they had another decent gain when they 45'd O'Donnell, a team they were only supposed to beat by 3. So, yeah, Ira has just had nice gains on some "unexpected" wins. Unexpected as in from The Toy's prediction.

Had that number of games gone up every year?

You mean the number of mixed games? If so, I'm really not sure. I'm not sure if that is something that's ever been tracked before the last few years. Also, I don't specifically track mixed games. I only track UIL and non-UIL games. I just did some math this morning to come up with what'd be considered mixed games.

 

[TheJoker]

Buncha crybabies in here worried about rankings. If you want your team to rank high then tell your coaches to stop scheduling against Karen's daycare and play some of the tough teams. Beat those guys and then you can prove you belong at the top. Hell you don't even have to win. Just compete. You can't play teams ranked 200 and expect to be top 10 because you 5-0.

 

[DOWNBOX]

Buncha crybabies in here worried about rankings. If you want your team to rank high then tell your coaches to stop scheduling against Karen's daycare and play some of the tough teams. Beat those guys and then you can prove you belong at the top. Hell you don't even have to win. Just compete. You can't play teams ranked 200 and expect to be top 10 because you 5-0.

Without someone doing rankings somewhere's.
How do you get a tough scheduled or soft schedule?

 

[TheJoker]

Without someone doing rankings somewhere's.
How do you get a tough scheduled or soft schedule?

What are you talking about? I didn't say don't do the rankings. I said don't cry about them. These rankings been the same for years. Beat better teams get a better ranking. Beat low ranked teams keep your low ranking. Besides that coaches know who the good teams are. They don't need these rankings to tell them. If they wanted to play better teams they would.

 

[CoachSanders@ACS]

For all you statistical nerds out there, like me, here's a look at how The Toy has done so far this season. The hope is that it continues to get better as the season progresses, as it has in past seasons, but if not, we'll just say it's because we've got a lot of competitive teams out there.

	Overall	UIL	Non-UIL
Week 1	91-45 (66.91%)	43-16 (72.88%)	24-17 (58.54%)
Week 2	96-44 (68.57%)	38-19 (66.67%)	29-13 (69.05%)
Week 3	102-34 (75%)	45-13 (77.59%)	25-13 (65.79%)
Week 4	106-22 (82.81%)	50-9 (84.75%)	27-6 (81.82%)
Week 5	107-26 (80.45%)	43-12 (78.18%)	32-4 (88.89%)
Totals	502-171 (74.59%)	219-69 (76.04%)	137-53 (72.11%)

That's actually not a bad historical win percentage by "The Toy". It's actually a lot higher than I thought it would be.

 

[ModeratorMike]

That's actually not a bad historical win percentage by "The Toy". It's actually a lot higher than I thought it would be.

There were a few weeks last year over 90%. I want to say week 8 and 9 maybe? I can't remember. I just know there were a few.

 

[ModeratorMike]

Oh, and it had week 17 at 100% last year.

 

[Hornet78]

Been wondering something for almost 2 weeks and was going to let it play out. But since this thread was started here we go.

Ok Mike, Granger used to catch heck occasionally about rankings. Seems the forum has been too easy on you. Lol I can’t quite figure out the Aquilla Cougars rapid rise in the rankings/ratings

UIL DIV 1 RANKINGS
Pre-season
Rank #22
Rating 291.2

Game 1
#22 Aquilla 48
#114 Covington 20

Week 1
Rank #21 (+1)
Rating 289.1 (-2.19)

Game 2
#21 Aquilla 62
#112 ETHS 14

Week 2
Rank #9 (+12)
Rating 313.40 (+24.39)

Game 3
#9 Aquilla 60
#103 Oakwood 104

Week 3
Rank #9 (No Change)
Rating 313.56 (+.16)

Game 4
#9 Aquilla 52
#31 Milford 6

Week 4
Rank #6 (+3)
Rating 325.71 (+12.15)

Specifically it was the updated week 2 rise in rank/rating after beating #112 ranked ETHS in game 2 that has me perplexed. Aquilla beat a #114 Covington the week before by 28 with little change. At the time Aquilla jumped into top 10 I just could not figure out how that happened. Glad this thread opened. Thanks Tigerfan85

Lot of teams pad the schedule to go 6-0 . Abbott will take this district like they always do . 2nd place is up for grabs . I don’t see Abbott playing past the 1st half in any district game