The final hurdle before our all-sport standings are ready
I gave a quick mention of it in one of Mark Unterreiner's blog replies, but I'm looking for your opinion on how to fine-tune our new all-sports standings, which we'll post for the first time as soon as the winter sports season wraps up.
The purpose is, much like in the OVC, to reward schools with a set number of points based on finishes in state team sports. That means a team that wins a state title gets 10 points, a team that finishes second gets 9 points, and so on. A school's point total is then divided by the number of sports teams it has. Make sense?
We'll probably break it into small-school and large-school divisions to try and keep schools matched up with similar-sized programs.
Now, the question: The MSHSAA sanctions a variety of competitions, from speech and debate to music and cheerleading. Do those count as part of our all-sport standings?
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I would say.
Baseball
Football
basketball
Softball
Cross Country
Wrestling
Girls Basketball
Vollyball
Soccer
Girls Soccer
Thats what I vote for. What about a team taht doesn't have one of the said sports? Do they get a negative?
I would actually agree with Sikeston 1213 but add Track and Field. I don't think music, cheerleading & speech debate are actually sports.
There is not enough competition in these events to actually count.
How many years are you going to research? Is this going to be only the last decade or are you going all-time.
Oh, my bad, I meant to put track and field.
What about swimming, golf, and tennis...and how about doing a boys, a girls, and a combined standings
The standings will be based on the current school year, so we'll have an overall winner (or a small-school and large-school winner) at by late May or early June.
And as for schools that don't have certain sports, they won't get negative points.
I'll make sure to post the entire point system once the kinks are worked out.
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So you're saying that you'll be including the '07 football and soccer seasons and doing a ranking this year?
I can already see this coming: If Notre Dame or St. Vincent or Saxony is ahead of any public schools, then it's a crappy system because those schools do so much recruiting. This is going to turn into one big worthless argument. Hope you're ready for it Jamie.
I have no guess how ND will compare to the public schools -- although Mark U. has already volunteered to keep track of the points, so I know the whole system is in capable hands.
Just kidding.
Ha, God, I was about to say. All of a sudden an extra 10 pints would be added to a certain school for "sportsmanship"
I would suggest a weighted version. I think people could all agree on the major sports that were listed, but you are always going to have people that complain about cheerleading or some sort of second tier sport not being counted. So my suggestion is to give an added multiplier weight to the major sports (say like a 2X multiplier), so therefore those will count more towards the end result, but if a high school does good in those other sports they still get some credit.
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