Give me one good, simple reason why Bishop Chatard should be bumped up from 3A to 4A in boys basketball when they haven't won a 3A sectional since 2004?
ERM hasn't won the all-sport trophy in years. Probably won't now that Jasper is also involved. Castle should win every SIAC title in every sport, every year. So, if you ask me, Castle punches way below its own weight.
You cannot have a system that says a school with 525 students (MD) is effectively equal to a school with 700 students (GS), yet a school with 575 students (ERM) is effectively equal to a school with 1800 students (Castle).
Your "data" is asking your kids how many kids don't do anything at GS. I would argue GS has more non-deadweight boys available for football than ERM, because we have a lot boys involved in soccer. So GS's "dead-weight" may be roaming the halls doing nothing, but we have "dead-weight" roaming the halls who attend soccer after school. The result is the same, neither group plays football. Our girls softball has rarely been good and the reason why is so many of our girls play soccer and the travel season is busy in the spring. We reap the rewards in fall with state soccer titles and will get bumped up in the next cycle due to the SF.