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I’m with you when you right bro. 

As the good Dr. pointed out in the thread below and I have said since the beginning of the season, these early season rankings are truly flawed and we both encourage you to ignore them.  What is more important, early season rankings that are flawed or winning playoff games after the first two rounds?  It's what I refer to making a lot of NOISE during the season to sadly leave with a whimper.  I also honestly said I think we are currently overrated due to last year's success while being overlooked last year due to our 4-7 record the previous year overlooking the devastating injuries to several D1 players during that season that were back to full strength last year.   Looking down the road, you should have running clock victories in the first two playoff rounds like we did last year as District 13 & 14 (4A) outside of Dillard only has one other team with even a pulse.   Once we got to the Regional Championship round where the pretenders are gone, no one (including yourself) gave us a chance to beat Armwood at their place and how did that go.  Same with the next round vs Bucholz.  Point being, talk is cheap so let your success at the end of the road do your talking.  

With all due respect, you are looking for answers that do not exist, at least not in a publicly available forum, and there is no way to make it make sense.  Each “owner” of a computer ranking uses his own version of different variables (won-loss record, strength of schedule, margin of victory, etc.), with different weighting applied to those variables, and run through some type of computer algorithm or Monte Carlo simulation or whatever.  Since each of these rankings uses “proprietary” information, the public at large has no clue as to what the process looks like.  Hence, the frustration at a finished product which no one can understand.  And even though these computer rankings are presented as “objective”, there are subjective elements within the calculations, based on the particular biases and opinions of the "owner".  But my limited knowledge tells me that any statistically significant metric must be repeatable and can be verified independently, which these rankings are not.  Thus, I suggest you join me in viewing computer rankings with skepticism and/or disdain.

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I respect your opinion bro & you know it’s all love. Now with that said. You mentioned us beating dr.phillips, questions how good is Orlando team. And as I mentioned up top from.Philips was 20 point faves so obviously they thought really highly of them, until they got punched in the mouth on game day.    HELL JONES vs EVANS , evans beat jones and immediately sky rocketed. BOTH jones & DR Phillips made it to the state semis or further last year.    all im saying is if rankings gonna be posted, actually look at film, no what the rosters looking like. Dont just rank teams off name and popularity , which is what I feel a lot of ranking pages do. Especially the north Florida , central Florida posters . If it’s not CENTRAL, STA, AHP, CHAMINADE, they do ZERO homework on getting to know the other teams down here, teams that are dam good. But because they don’t pass the “NAME CHECK” they get no love.    lastly like I stated up top, we can go back and forth all day about Dillards LACK OF toughness in their schedule this year. But again Norland came in ranked this year fresh off losing their ALL STAR qb to graduation, a plethora of skill position players, they have 2 LOSES already in this young season & was BLOWN OUT BY 20+ last week & their STILL RANKED top 5 in 4A ? WHY!? is it cuz of name ? , if we’re going off LAST YEAR. Dillard went toe to toe with heritage in the playoffs , norland was BLOWN OUT, So by that matrix , shouldn’t Dillard who not only kept their last years team intact but Also ADDED & got better ; shouldn’t they be ranked high as well? I’m just saying make it make sense lol.