Month: August 2011

  • Week 0 Rankings

    Week 0 rankings: http://ia.bcmoorerankings.com/fb/2011/week0/

  • 2011 Preaseason Football Rankings

    iahsaa.org released football schedules today. Thus, there is something to talk ago. ———— Rankings: http://ia.bcmoorerankings.com/fb/2011/preseason/ Rankings are biased, 100% last year’s power scores. ———— Schools that are not fielding a team in 2011: 4A-A (2) Milford Okoboji Mondamin West Harrison 8 man (6) Bode Twin River Valley College Springs South Page Miles East Central Olin…

  • Preseason rankings construction

    How do you construct a preseason ranking? Last year I investigated the question of preseason rankings. Given that the computer knows nothing about the 2011 edition of all teams, how can an intelligent preseason rankings be constructed? Some initial notes are given here http://bcmoorerankings.com/2010/07/tradition-one-year-tradition/. Possibilities: 1. Use last year’s team strengths 2. Use a different…

  • iahsaa.org football schedules release schedule

    This is a return of one of my favorite headlines from last year. Iahsaa.org is scheduled to release football schedules on August 8. Excerpt of press release from iahsaa.org follows: “Due to some schools dropping football, there were changes to many schedules. We are waiting to hear back from a handful of schools just to…

  • FB: Winning streaks

    Source: iahsaa.org LONGEST CURRENT WINNING STREAKS – GOING INTO 2011 LONGEST WINNING STREAKS Strk-Team Last Loss 23 – Armstrong-Ringsted (8P) 30-28 to North Sentral Kossuth, Sept. 25, 2009 14 – Dowling Catholic, WDM (4A) 28-25 to Marshalltown, Nov. 13, 2009 14 – Regina, Iowa City (2A) 42-7 to Solon, Nov. 6, 2009 14 – North…