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Blame that silly computerized "Husky Nation" call they play over the PA all game.

Nope. This team is just the second to ever play 11 games. (2002) I guess this makes this season one of the all time greats.

Is the QB out against Jasper?

Thanks for doing this all year.

VL is a 7th place siac team

I would add the back seat of my car to that list.

I fixed it for you

I guess that means Jasper vs Reitz.

I think Reitz would be on the road against both Jasper and Memorial if Harrison beats Boonville.

The SIAC took a big hit in Sagarin this week SOUTHERN INDIANA CONF. RANK STATE RANK TEAM OVERALL RATING SCHEDULE STRENGTH RANK RECENT RATING RANK PREDICTOR RATING RANK 1 28 Evansville Reitz 79.55 58.05 75 78.41 28 78.41 34 2 58 Evansville Memorial 71.88 59.90 66 77.05 36 67.62 70 3 63 Evansville Mater Dei 70.38 57.99 77 70.62 60 69.25 65 4 69 Castle 68.10 59.08 71 66.27 73 69.72 63 5 72 Jasper 66.73 60.68 59 69.87 64 62.43 88 6 84 Vincennes Lincoln 64.03 59.81 68 61.00 94 69.39 64 7 89 Evansville North 63.32 64.12 45 61.80 92 64.94 81 8 151 Evansville Harrison 48.39 66.24 35 46.21 151 49.65 148 9 188 Evansville Bosse 40.57 65.89 37 44.13 160 35.25 206 10 241 Evansville Central 27.31 64.78 43 23.01 249 30.64 226

This is what the brackets will be. Top Bracket Bye- Central R1 Bosse vs Boonville Bottom Memorial vs Harrison Jasper vs Reitz

The Sagarin top ten by predictor are as follows after week 7 1 Reitz 2 VL 3 Castle 4 Mater Dei 5 E North 6 Memorial 7 Brownsburg 8 Jasper 9 Evansville Harrison 10 Center Grove Bosse and Central need to start carrying their weight and kick those paperweights Brownsburg and CG out of the top ten. I can't imagine why anyone would think the SIAC is weighted incorrectly. 😁

Closed conferences should be treated differently. Case in point, a closed conference of the mega football schools (Cathedral, Center Grove, etc) should not have the same strength of schedule as a closed conference of 1a schools. Sagarin is probably using some aspect of last years playoff results to weight the conferences. The SAC did not have as much playoff success in 2021 as in 2020. The SIAC did better in 2021 then in 2020. The "switching" of their conference strength is probably related to playoff performance. No it is not perfect but unfortunately the only way to connect the conferences in season is to use something from last year to compare them. The fact it was reversed is explained by the difference in playoff performance changing from 2020 to 2021

Here is one of last years conversations that this years thread is recycling.

As others have stated Sagarin cannot compare teams that are not connected. Both conferences will not be connected until the playoffs. Last year the same happened only in reverse. The SAC was over-weighted during the season and the SIAC was under-weighted. Playoff results will have outsized influence on both conferences final rating. Last year's rankings for both conferences top five teams were as follows: After week 9 After state SAC 3,8,11,12,19 20,48,60,68,70 (yes, Sagarin thought 5 of the top 20 regular season teams were in the SAC) SIAC 65, 83, 88, 113, 137 25, 26, 31, 44, 69 One year ago there was a discussion on this board about why the SAC was valued so highly.

Probably on the same grounds the NFL has to restrict broadcasting of there games.

One big difference this year is the strength of the middle. I didn't look at it in my chart above. Teams 5-6 are a good deal stronger then year's past. It could be the product of a deep conference or it could just be comparing week 5 to week 9. The middle might weaken out by week 9 this year.

Yes. The final rankings for SIAC teams prior to 10 teams was consistent with the current alignment. https://web.archive.org/web/20180101000000*/http://sagarin.com/sports/hsfsend.htm

Which is to say Sagarin currently has the SIAC ranked inline with where it will be ranked after state. I'm not familiar with how much the tournament shifted the SIAC rankings in Calpreps or Massey in years past.

Adding to my previous post: If the SIAC has similar postseason success as the past two years then the SIAC rankings won't move much during this years tournament.

Sagarin has made a significant adjustment to the weighting of the SIAC relative to years past. The following is a chart showing the rankings of the 1st, 2nd, 9th, and 10th ranked teams after games 9 and state. The current season ranking has the SIAC in line with where they have finished in the final rankings after state the past two years. After game 9 Final ranking after state. 2020 80:137:289:308 21:38:213:255 2021 65:83:240:244 25:26:148:150 2022 20:21:163:166 (rankings after game 5)

Three games in and only one team is undefeated. Regarding rankings: Philosophically there are two ways to rank teams. One is forward thinking. Which team is best if they played today and or moving forward? The other is past thinking. Which is best based on body of work? (Team A beat B who beat C) Both type of ranking systems have merit. The schedule three weeks in happens to fit in such a way that every team can be ranked with a "past looking" system in which every team can be ranked with the teams they defeated below them and the teams that beat them ranked above them. That ranking is as follows: (And for the record I prefer a forward looking ranking system) Reitz VL MD Castle North Harrison Jasper Memorial/Bosse (These two only share Central as a common opponent so no one really knows who is better.)🤣 Central

I agree. People act like Jasper didn't just lose to Harrison a week earlier.

MD lost to Lincoln

As a Jasper fan I wish that were true.