IAHSFB: playoff 4 post-game thoughts


Week 9 notes:

1. Rankings

http://ia.bcmoorerankings.com/fb/2022/

2. Preamble

Numbers are presented at the time of writing. Scores may be corrected during the week. As this happens, rankings will be updated; this exposition will not.

3. Congratiulations

Congratulations to all of the champions!

4. Results

Cl Rk Visitor            Score  Cl Rk Home               Score    Pre   Post Act
4A  2 CB Lewis Central      38  4A  1 CR Xavier             45   1.68   2.43   7
 A  1 Grundy Center         27   A  2 Britt West Hancock     0   2.57  -4.20 -27
 8  3 Wayland WACO          16   8  1 Remsen St Mary        38  21.93  20.08  22
5A  7 WDM Valley            14  5A  2 Southeast Polk        49  17.59  20.69  35
3A  2 Mount Vernon          23  3A  1 Harlan                30  13.59  12.63   7
2A  1 Central Lyon CL-G-LR  10  2A  2 Williamsburg           6 -13.55  -7.59  -4
1A  2 Hawarden West Sioux    7  1A  1 Van Meter             35  -2.47  13.32  28

5. thoughts

5A – Valley’s upset of Dowling seemed to have left the door wide open for Southeast Polk to win a championship.
4A – Xavier wins a high-scoring game.
3A – Harlin wins a competitive game.
2A – Central Lyon CL-G-LR wins a close one.
1A – Van Meter wins big.
A – Grundy Center wins big.
8 – Remsen St Mary wins by the expected game margin.

6. prediction results

Cl  1st   2nd   3rd   4th  total  
5A  4/8   3/4   1/2   1/1   9/15  0.600
4A  6/8   3/4   2/2   1/1  12/15  0.800
3A  8/8   4/4   2/2   1/1  15/15  1.000
2A  3/8   3/4   2/2   1/1   9/15  0.600
1A  6/8   4/4   2/2   0/1  12/15  0.800
 A  8/8   4/4   2/2   0/1  14/15  0.933
 8  6/8   4/4   2/2   1/1  13/15  0.867
 
  41/56 25/28 13/14   5/7 84/105  0.800
  0.732 0.893 0.929 0.714  0.800

The model was a perfect 15/15 in class 3A; model struggled with class 2A and 5A.

1st round predictions were 73% correct; 3rd round predictions were 93% correct.