Maxpreps preseason rankings

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The annual Maxpreps preseason rankings are out (click here for the Wyoming previews), and the Green River Wolves are in the overall No. 1 spot.

You can get pretty into the Maxpreps ratings, which rank the 11-man schools in Wyoming 1-54 (six-man schools aren’t ranked in the preseason for Wyoming, probably because so many schools are new). Burns is ranked tops in 2A and third overall; Douglas is No. 1 in 3A and fifth overall; and Wind River is the top 1A 11-man team and is 13th overall.

Take a look at the rankings, then let me know what you think: bogus or beautiful? Post a comment below.

Maxpreps and the Massey Ratings are the only computer rankings that I know of that rank high school teams throughout the year. Maxpreps generally gives small schools too much credit; Massey ratings are generally kinder to larger schools. Massey ratings usually take about three weeks to get up to speed, but once they do I’ll try to remember to post the rankings here each week.

Season kickoff is in two-plus days for the 4As…. nine-plus days for everyone else…. it’s starting to get fun.

–patrick

Updates: Lusk, Wyoming Indian, Guernsey-Sunrise, Lingle, Rocky Mountain, Moorcroft, Big Horn and Mountain View

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Seven more games were added to the database today courtesy of the Byes Project:

Wyoming Indian’s 16-0 loss to the Dubois JV on Sept. 15, 1972

Wyoming Indian’s 28-12 loss to the Meeteetse JV on Oct. 5, 1972

Wyoming Indian’s 56-28 loss to the Dubois JV on Oct. 14, 1972

Lusk’s 28-7 loss to Lingle on Sept. 19, 1980

Lusk’s 16-0 win over Guernsey-Sunrise on Sept. 26, 1980

Rocky Mountain’s 36-6 loss to Shepherd, Mont., on Sept. 3, 1988

Mountain View’s 36-18 win over the Rock Springs sophs on Sept. 13, 1990

If you’ll notice, three of the games are from Wyoming Indian’s inaugural 1972 season. One of the more interesting quirks in Wyoming football is that the Chiefs’ first game in program history came against Medicine Bow (or Bow-Basin, depending on the era in which you grew up) on Sept. 9, 1972 — and that game was also Medicine Bow’s first game in ITS program history. Quirky. I also added the Chiefs’ coaches for the 1972, 1973 and 1974 seasons to their team page.

Two of the other games came from Lusk’s 1980 season.

I also deleted a duplicate entry from 1964 involving the Oct. 2 game between Big Horn and Moorcroft.

Also, research for the years 1947-50 is complete. I likely won’t be posting those results until after the 2009 season, as it’s much easier to updates like that in one fell swoop rather than bit by bit. My hope is to be able to finish up research on all years from 1940-50 before the end of this season and have all those results posted by Christmas. Wish me luck….

–patrick

Party like it’s 1994… two quick updates. And a new coach in Guernsey.

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Two new updates, both from 1994:

The first comes with a corrected score. Thermopolis beat Glenrock 58-16 on Sept. 30; I had the score reversed, with Glenrock beating Thermopolis.

The second comes with a game found with the Byes Project. Pine Bluffs beat the Cheyenne Central sophomores 28-6 on Sept. 12 in Cheyenne.

Both games have been added/corrected, with updates made to the relevant pages.

Also, some news out of Guernsey: boys basketball coach Casey Moats has taken the reins of the football program. Moats was Guernsey’s defensive coordinator the past few years (Guernsey Gazette).

–patrick

Caught streaking: Star Valley

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I somehow missed Star Valley’s 26-game unbeaten streak from 1960-63 the first time I went around collecting winning and losing streaks. I noticed the run today and added it to the streaks page. It’s tied for the ninth-longest unbeaten streak in state history, tying Cokeville’s run from 1987-90, Glenrock’s from 1966-69 and Riverton’s from 1997-99.

It’s also the second-longest in Star Valley’s history; the Braves went 35 games unbeaten from 1964-68.

–patrick

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