Rankings Reimagined: A New Way to Analyze XC Team Rankings

Boys Rankings:



BartlettFranklinFather RyanBrentwoodHardin Valley
Top RunnerMcNairHurstKnappVanderkolkKeller
Rank13524
2-4 Split0:340:210:140:250:07
Rank53241
4-6 Split0:310:300:110:370:14
Rank43152
1-6 Average16:1316:1016:3016:2116:56
Rank21435
Composite1210121412


Analysis:

Based on head to heads we know Franklin has beat Father Ryan and Father Ryan and Bartlett have beat Brentwood so the metrics seem to have ranked those teams pretty accurately. The outlier is Hardin Valley. How good are they? That we won't know until they run head to head against one of these four team or run the same course as one of these 4 teams and that may not happen this season. For now, we just know their 1-7 split is only 30 seconds. 

Again, this was just a trial run of a small sample size of teams and if we were to expand to 10 or 15 teams there would be more variability in the scoring but ultimately, I know this isn't perfect so feel free to submit possible tweaks on the message board.