Your team is halfway through the season and beats a league rival. When the week’s OSAA rankings arrive on the website two days later, your team is still three slots below the beaten league team. Do the weekly rankings accurately reflect what is going on across Oregon?
The OSAA Rankings Committee met June 14 and recently released an update of items discussed. The meeting marked the third time the committee met this year.
The committee discussed “correlation studies” of the published rankings versus what actually occurred. According to the update, “correlation studies analyze the % of contests where the better ranked team in a classification won, going backwards through the regular season. A contest where that happens is considered “accurate”.
In plain words, if the higher ranked team won, OSAA considers it a success. Bear in mind, this is for the OSAA ranking only, not the Colley ranking.
According to the committee, rankings were spot on correct as follows:
Football 93.46%
Boys Soccer 89.64%
Girls Soccer 87.78%
Volleyball 89.28%
Girls Basketball 87.89%
Boys Basketball 88.77%
Softball 87.01%
Baseball 84.52%
