Shouldn’t be hard. You guys should put a running clock on everyone in the district 

https://www.ronglodich.com/author-blog/the-power-of-seen

Josh just explained it on twitter after calling FHSAA.  For football only, maxpreps uses a prediction model. So, the ranking include predicting rest of season wins/losses.  FHSAA eliminates that prediction in their rankings, which is why they are different.  At end of season, all the games will be played and no more predictions. The ranking will be closer or the same between the two.

Sounds like a plan 

No, but that doesn't mean they are harmless.  I can cite at least one example of a team cancelling a Week 11 game last year and replacing with a stronger team in an attempt to improve its SOS.  Should teams run up the score, not knowing if/how much margin of victory impacts their rating?  Wouldn't it be better if the factors and weighting of those factors going into the rating was known and transparent, so that teams could plan their schedule accordingly?  Does it matter that the ratings cannot be verified for accuracy? (since no one ever makes an error when thousands of bits of data are input into a system).  Or wouldn't it just be better if we had large districts and playoff qualification was based on head-to-head, round-robin competition, like numerous other southern states?