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The rankings have been updated. Let us know your comments, here or on the site. Maher Rankings | Category Archives: 2015 Kentucky Soccerrankings Kentucky | , Kentucky | ohio, Kentucky Here is your top 20 Rank Team 1 Bowling Green 2 Trinity (Louisville) 3 Paul Laurence Dunbar 4 South Oldham 5 Henry Clay 6 Scott 7 Daviess County 8 St. Xavier 9 Covington Catholic 10 Tates Creek 11 Woodford County 12 Ballard 13 DuPont Manual 14 Newport Central Catholic 15 Montgomery County 16 Mercer County 17 South Warren 18 Central Hardin 19 St. Henry 20 Louisville Collegiate

The only games that the system does not consider are those against out of state competition. All other games factor into a team's ranking.

The preseason Maher Rankings are out. Check them out, and let us know what you think. Maher Rankings | Category Archives: 2015 Kentucky Soccerrankings Kentucky | rankings, Kentucky | KY, Kentucky If you are unfamiliar, the Maher Rankings are an objective statistically sound and proven method of ranking sports teams. We've been ranking Kentucky high school soccer since 2011, more recently adding Ohio soccer, and Kentucky basketball. The rankings are based solely on scores and home field advantage. As such, a preseason ranking is based on historical results. We make no attempt to factor in lost seniors or starters due to graduation - to hard to get the data! So go easy on us for a few weeks. Here is your preseason Top 20 Rank Team 1 Sacred Heart 2 South Oldham 3 Notre Dame 4 West Jessamine 5 Owensboro Catholic 6 Lexington Catholic 7 Boyle County 8 DuPont Manual 9 Assumption 10 Paul Laurence Dunbar 11 Henry Clay 12 Bowling Green 13 Ryle 14 Marshall County 15 Newport Central Catholic 16 Elizabethtown 17 Tates Creek 18 Russell 19 Highlands 20 Campbell County

The preseason Maher Rankings are out. Check them out, and let us know what you think. Maher Rankings | Category Archives: 2015 Kentucky Soccerrankings Kentucky | , Kentucky | ohio, Kentucky If you are unfamiliar, the Maher Rankings are an objective statistically sound and proven method of ranking sports teams. We've been ranking Kentucky high school soccer since 2011, more recently adding Ohio soccer, and Kentucky basketball. The rankings are based solely on scores and home field advantage. As such, a preseason ranking is based on historical results. We make no attempt to factor in lost seniors or starters due to graduation - to hard to get the data! So go easy on us for a few weeks. Here is your preseason Top 20 Rank Team 1 Bowling Green 2 Trinity (Louisville) 3 Paul Laurence Dunbar 4 Henry Clay 5 Scott 6 South Oldham 7 St. Xavier 8 Daviess County 9 Woodford County 10 Tates Creek 11 Covington Catholic 12 Ballard 13 Kentucky Country Day 14 Louisville Collegiate 15 DuPont Manual 16 North Oldham 17 Fern Creek 18 Boyle County 19 Mercer County 20 South Warren

We have finally taken a stab at a multi-year ranking. We don't have data going back to the start of Kentucky basketball, so it isn't truly an all-time ranking. So far, we can go back to the 2006-07 season, so more of an all-decade ranking. Give it a read, and leave some comments. Maher Rankings | Category Archives: Kentucky Boys Basketball 2015rankings Kentucky | , Kentucky | high school, Kentucky You can now follow the Maher Rankings on Twitter as well. Here is just a glimpse at the top 25: Rank Team 1 Trinity (Louisville) 2 Eastern 3 Ballard 4 Scott County 5 Ballard 6 Trinity (Louisville) 7 Lexington Catholic 8 Trinity (Louisville) 9 Ballard 10 Ballard 11 Scott County 12 Madison Central 13 Covington Catholic 14 Shelby Valley 15 Ballard 16 Scott County 17 Scott County 18 Mason County 19 Bryan Station 20 Holmes 21 Trinity (Louisville) 22 Scott County 23 Owensboro 24 Montgomery County 25 Bullitt East

You guys inspired me to calculate some Movers of the Year: Maher Rankings | 2014-15 Movers of the Yearhigh school Kentucky | soccer, Kentucky | KY, Kentucky Check out the improvement Warden made this year. Awesome!

Absolutely true except in one pretty high profile example - NCAA college football. Better this year than ever before, but still rankings are playing a part in who top 4 are. Even in my opinion, the rankings are playing too big of a roll in this case.

Almost forgot. RealDeal, I can't really argue the point with Holmes. They finished #28 , less than a point behind #25 Warren Central. Really, this is within the margin of error as they say in political polling.

I'll add my thoughts in here to bring the total value up to $1.08. Agreed that Owensboro are the undisputed champs, and have the banners and rings. But, is it truly all or nothing? The only thing that matters is the last team standing, all others bow in shame? I doubt that is your point MountaineerMan, nobody is that Ricky-Bobby-esque. But if you follow that logic, then perhaps year-end rankings are at least worth the $1.06 coke. How else can a team measure their performance? There are ways of course, # of wins, quality wins, how far you made it in the tourney,... All of these are good, but all of these are flawed. This is another metric - a comprehensive measure of the complete body of work over the entire season. Is it any consolation for the Ballard players? Probably not today, I know they would trade places with Owensboro's in a second. But, maybe someday in the not too distance future they can find some solace in the great season they enjoyed. Or, how about Louisville Central, eliminated in the first round of the 7th Region tournament this year and last year. Sure, they had a lot more wins this year than last, but anyone who has been around high school basketball knows that strength of schedule is everything. Here, we factor that out of the equation, Central moved up from #88 last season, to a Top 20 season this year. It is something a coach can build on with his players. Or how about countless other teams, eliminated in the same spot as previous years, perhaps with less wins than before because of tougher schedules? Could they find some sense of accomplishment in a similar way? That is where I find some practical use in the year end rankings.

What do the 3 bunnies mean?

The year end Maher Rankings have been posted. We have all kinds of goodies in there this week, including an Upset of the Year. Give it a read: Maher Rankings | Category Archives: Kentucky Boys Basketball 2015rankings Kentucky | , Kentucky | KY, Kentucky Here are the top 25: Rank Team 1 Ballard 2 Trinity (Louisville) 3 Owensboro 4 Covington Catholic 5 Knott County Central 6 Newport Central Catholic 7 Lexington Catholic 8 Bryan Station 9 Henderson County 10 Bowling Green 11 Taylor County 12 Boyle County 13 Hopkinsville 14 DuPont Manual 15 Mason County 16 Dixie Heights 17 Wayne County 18 Paul Laurence Dunbar 19 Lincoln County 20 Central 21 Doss 22 Lafayette 23 Scott County 24 Lexington Christian 25 Warren Central

Yes, that was a brutal, bracket busting tourney. Nothing to do but take your lumps on it. From what I gather, most others suffered the same fate, unless you are from the Owensboro or Bowling Green areas! The pre-tournament bracket finished 6-9 Even with re-calculating after each round, it won't be much better. Haven't run those #'s yet, and several games are too close to eyeball. Boyle was #21 entering the tourney, and Bowling Green was #22 , there is a chance they could have flip-flopped before their matchup. The same is true for #18 Owensboro, and Bowling Green. Might at least get over 50%! Brings up an interesting point though. I have never done this poorly in the state soccer tournament. Is basketball harder to predict? I don't think so, the full season prediction accuracies are very similar. Is the state tournament in basketball more unpredictable than the soccer state tournament? Maybe, I'd like to go back through past basketball state tournaments to explore that one. I could see that being the case, since they play at Rupp with attendances in the five figures, it is a very different environment than the regular season. This is not really the case for soccer. Or, maybe this years tourney was just a crazy one!

Official Maher Ranking prediction bracket for the Sweet 16. Maher Rankings | Maher Rankings Sweet 16 Bracketbasketball Kentucky | basketball, Kentucky | rankings, Kentucky

Which teams in particular?

Here are your top 25: Rank Team 1 Ballard 2 Trinity (Louisville) 3 Knott County Central 4 Covington Catholic 5 Newport Central Catholic 6 Taylor County 7 Lexington Catholic 8 Bryan Station 9 Henderson County 10 Hopkinsville 11 DuPont Manual 12 Doss 13 Mason County 14 Dixie Heights 15 Wayne County 16 Paul Laurence Dunbar 17 Lincoln County 18 Owensboro 19 Central 20 Lafayette 21 Boyle County 22 Bowling Green 23 Collins 24 Scott County 25 Lexington Christian

The Maher Rankings have been updated. #1 , 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 18, 21, 22, 23, 35, 37, 47, 52, and 73 are all still alive. Check them out. Maher Rankings | Category Archives: Kentucky Boys Basketball 2015KY Kentucky | high school, Kentucky | ohio, Kentucky

Perhaps, or it was just an upset. Holmes had 8 losses, including one to newcath. One of the two games with thee two teams was an upset.

The Maher Rankings have been updated as of Saturday's games. Here are the Top 25. Check out the full rankings on maherrankings.com Rank Team 1 Ballard 2 Trinity (Louisville) 3 Knott County Central 4 Covington Catholic 5 Newport Central Catholic 6 Henderson County 7 Taylor County 8 Wayne County 9 Lafayette 10 Lexington Catholic 11 Bryan Station 12 Dixie Heights 13 Hopkinsville 14 DuPont Manual 15 Mason County 16 Paul Laurence Dunbar 17 Central 18 Bowling Green 19 Doss 20 Lincoln County 21 Henry Clay 22 Scott County 23 Oldham County 24 Owensboro 25 Lexington Christian

Ha, very good. You read the post at least though didn't you :sssh: Anyway, at the Maher Rankings, we like to say its more like reading tomorrow's news! Well, 82.4% of the time anyway. There has to be a copyright in there somewhere!

Here are the latest Top 25. Rank Team 1 Ballard 2 Trinity (Louisville) 3 Newport Central Catholic 4 Knott County Central 5 Covington Catholic 6 Henderson County 7 Wayne County 8 Taylor County 9 Mason County 10 Lexington Catholic 11 Lafayette 12 Dixie Heights 13 Hopkinsville 14 Central 15 DuPont Manual 16 Paul Laurence Dunbar 17 Lincoln County 18 Bowling Green 19 Bryan Station 20 Doss 21 Henry Clay 22 Scott County 23 Oldham County 24 Lexington Christian 25 Owensboro

The Maher Ranking region tournament predictions have been updated. Check them out here: Maher Rankings | Kentucky Basketball Region Tournament Predictionsrankings Kentucky | high school, Kentucky | basketball, Kentucky Can you beat the math? Post your predictions here, we'll tally them up.

The maher rankings have been updated. Let us know what you think.

Anyone can post here too, I can still tally.

Just for fun, we've posted predicted winners for the 16 upcoming Region Tournaments. Check them out. Maher Rankings | Kentucky Boys Basketball Region Tournamentsbasketball Kentucky | KY, Kentucky | high school, Kentucky Do you think you can beat the math? Post your picks in the comments section, and we'll tally up who can beat the #'s.

Maher rankings have been updated as of a few games today. Maher Rankings | Category Archives: Kentucky Boys Basketball 2015rankings geo1 | rankings, geo1 | , geo1 Maher Rankings | Kentucky High School Soccer Rankings Let us know what you think!