Stephens County is an 8 AAA school and they are listed in AA rankings.
Watch out for Columbus boys in 3A, they performed well at the Clara Bowl where their number two guy didn't finish because he is still recovering from an injury.
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jeady
A healthy Preston Jones helps them get into the top 10 but I don't see them cracking the top 4 in AAA.
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tacoboy Basically I'm just pointing out that Columbus isn't running at full strength right now, and not to be surprised if they spring up the rankings when they do finally get 100% healthy.
I appreciate that you take the time and effort to put together these rankings. But, you probably shouldn't have changed rankings so much with so many teams missing runners for the ACT, taking the week off, etc. Many of the changes will probably reverse back this weekend. Please consider multiple weeks' performance rather than week-by-week. It will make for a more consistent representation. Again, just trying to make a good thing even better. Thanks for your hard work.
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coachclark1
It actually should be a week to week thing like college football. and plus unlike college football these rankings do not even matter. It's not like St. Pius is getting a better box at state because they are ranked number 1.
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DucksXC
Agreed, but how can a team be ranked in the top 3 one week, win the meet they are at with decent times and a starter missing, then drop all the way out of the top 10? THEN, the next week at full strength they beat top 3 competition in class AAAA and AAA handily? Do they now surge all the way back to that top 3 ranking (which they shouldn't have dropped from to begin with)? There is a "smoothing" to results in college football that does look at more than just the prior week. Not trying to "overanalyze" this, just some thoughts on improving it.
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coachclark1 Kind of agree with what you're saying...Walton moving so far down last week is probably the example you're referring to. It's been the model of the rankings committee the last few years to look at each week's activity independently (for the most part). ACT/SAT weekends are the problem children, since teams that run a diluted squad get penalized while teams that rest entirely don't. Then there's Carrollton Last Chance....lots of teams run there but some run hard and some tempo it. Bottom line, it's just too tough to do enough research (given time constraints) to figure out all the subjectives. What do you do with a team that's really good with their #1 runner, but that runner doesn't run for a race or two? Are they injured? Do you call a coach to ask that question? Probably not appropriate.
Open to suggestions on how to make the rankings more meaningful though. Appreciate any feedback.
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Pre1962
Perhaps you need to include the caveats that you had in your week 1 rankings, so folks don't keep raising issues that are were already dealt with. (Here's a link to that post:
ga.milesplit.com/discussion/topics/88966).
IMO, it is hard enough for a ranker to scour all the meets and then try to deal with course differences to generate a measure of sorts for how different teams performed. It would make it a job to quit if you had to also examine the roster of every team in the classification to factor in who did and did not actually run that week. (And of course, also figure out why: I mean, if one school gets a pass because they didn't run their sick #2 guy, another should get a pass because they got a poor performance from their #2 who didn't reveal that he was sick until after the meet).
The rankers do everyone a favor by spending time doing the evaluating as they do (saving the rest of us a lot of time and trouble) and it helps generate interest in the sport. But IMO there is a limit to what you can reasonably do, particularly since the rankings are only for entertainment purposes.
I vote to keep the rankings the same. Almost no team runs a non-championship meet with all of its top runners present, 100% healthy, and not out too late at the previous night's football game. A tempo run would have a far greater impact than one runner skipping a meet, and there is almost no way to account for that short of calling every coach (and it's unreasonable to ask every coach to reveal his training strategy every week).
The rankings are supposed to be for fun, and if a team that doesn't "deserve" to be ranked happens to get the honor one week, maybe some kid who was on the fence about joining the team or sticking with the team will decide to try it...and then everyone wins.
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