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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In a month, National Fall Lax Fest will be the first test of most of the area 2030 teams.  Looks like everyone, except hero's, is participating.  Some good match ups in the top bracket, including a M&D and MDU showdown.[/quote]

Why is YJMA in such a low bracket for this? [/quote]

From what I've noticed, they only sign up for the hardest brackets/tournaments half the time.  The other half they like to chillax :)[/quote]

It will be surprising to see them remain a top 20 team with that attitude.[/quote]

Quite the opposite. Last year they only played easy teams all fall and started out ranked #9. Once they played harder teams they fell to #19. Beating a bunch of easy teams in blowouts is any easier way to move up in rankings than losing close games to good teams.[/quote]

This is actually the opposite.

The issue is in fall, so few games have been played, the bad teams have not yet dropped so that blow out win is overrrated. Once teams get 25-30 games in, those bad teams ratings drop, as does the quality of that win in the Fall.

Always take fall rankings with a grain of salt because of this. Lots of non hot bed teams ranked way too high but haven't traveled yet to show it.
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We’re both saying the same thing, in the fall you can juice your rankings by playing bad teams and beating them by 10. That doesn’t work all year but this strategy worked for them last year for initial rankings[/quote]

It's hard to juice ratings even in the fall because a team would still need to outperform the algorithm consistently or dramatically.  The fall rankings are different than the summer rankings because 1) some good teams don't yet qualify for rankings because they don't have enough games played and 2) there are fewer games in the calculations, which gives outsized credit for outperforming or underperforming.  Over the course of the year more teams and games are added to the calculations and everything falls into the line.  By the end of the year it pretty much makes sense.  Even during the summer you may hear people complain about easy schedules allowing some teams to have a high ranking, but the algorithm take all that into account.  As said, it's just math.[/quote]

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