1. 2024 review
25,701 new or improved game entries
15,469 new game entries
Improvements by teams:
diffTeamCount.2024.txt
Improvements by year:
diffYearCount.2024.txt
As headlines: significant work was accomplished on Northwest Iowa, Lakes Conference, Lamoni, Marion, Riceville, and Urbandale.
2. Long-term projects
2.1 Additional reports
The 1891 to 1910 time period has a lot of games where a high school team plays a college football team (varsity, or second team, or even third team). Additionally there are games with non-educational teams: alumni teams, athletic clubs, military teams, town teams, and YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Assocation) teams.
Significant work continues to go into documenting these teams.
(No change from 2023 report)
2.2 Iowa College
Similar to the previous point, I’d like to provide a repository for all Iowa college football scores. Additionally, I believe historical conference reports for the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference would add significant value. Progress on this goal will happen in parallel to high school school research.
This project has gotten significant attention in 2024.
Iowa College football scores
1889-1907: 1178 total
No published reports have been made. I expect this will be done in 2025.
2.3 high school conference reports
Generally conferences began in about 1920. Significant work has been done to display conference rankings and standings. These historical standings are really an interesting gem. Please enjoy these reports; they are really great.
2024 update: work is still ongoing in this project.
2.4 high school class report
This is a new project for 2025. I believe I have full data to publish class reports for 1972-1990. Class reports for 1991-1999 were completed this year. I’m very interested in class reports for earlier years (1891-1971) (official iahsaa.org or other).
Thanks to Chris Cuellar, iahsaa.org, for assistance.
2.5 Rivalry rankings
I’d like to develop reports measuring the quality of a rivalry. Clearly the most important factor is the total number of games played. The next factor is clearly a measure of the overall closeness of the total wins for the two teams. Thus, the best rivalry is when two teams play a lot of games, and the two teams have an equal amount of wins in the rivalry.
This is still on the to-do list.
(No change from 2023 report (still to do))
4. current totals
156,600 game entries
147,127 game results
146,657 game scores
132,695 game scores with locations
4.1 completion estimate
76.5% complete
5. Collaboration
As always, this is a great collaboration with a lot of contributors (currently 57 contributors). If you have scores you would like to share, please contact me bcmoore87@bcmoorerankings.com.