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Each team's overall record is used to do the calculations. The number one goal of the Strength+Success ranking is to publish a ranking that is completely objective and is simple enough for everyone to understand. Well, that's two goals, but you get the picture. The list on the left side of the page is the win percentage of every team on your schedule averaged together. The entire schedule, not just completed games. This also means that if you play an undefeated team in your district three times in a season, all three of those meetings factor into the average. On the right hand side, we take the team's average "opponent strength" from the left and add the team's own win percentage. Oliver Springs' opponents are a combined 208-139 for a win percentage of 60%. It's own win percentage is 66.6% (10-5). Add 0.6 to 0.666 and you'll get 1.26, which ranks them 11th on the right hand side. There's no magic to it, it just is what it is. What hurts Elizabethton is the four out-of-state teams (whose records don't factor in) and the four games against winless teams in their district. In addition, only one district opponent has a winning record (South Greene at 9-4). You can look here to see what I'm talking about.

Jackson Christian vs. Friendship Christian photos...

The apprehension we have about incurring the additional cost and time that would be involved in "taking the next step" server-wise is that 95% of the time everything works fine. It's just those few nights out of the year (probably 20-30 days total) where we have problems meeting demand.

More than 1,500 high school basketball fans showed up last night for a Seventh Region Tournament final that was never played. The Jeffersontown and Ballard teams and their backers arrived at Louisville Gardens only to find out the 7 o'clock game had been delayed and eventually postponed because of a temporary injunction that referee Vic Montgomery was granted in Jefferson County Circuit Court. The incident started Friday night in the Gardens. During halftime of the DeSales-Western game, Montgomery, who was working the game, and Darrell Bailey, who was scheduled to work the evening's final game, got involved in a verbal exchange that started in the officials' locker room and carried into the arena. Both were escorted from the building. Montgomery was replaced for the second half of the DeSales-Western game, and Bailey was replaced in the Doss-Pleasure Ridge Park game. http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.d...484/1002/SPORTS

http://www.coacht.com/gallery/gallery.cfm?GalleryID=4543

We have the ability to do that here, I just don't know why the board operators aren't showing it.

Test it for me if you would... Note: This link won't work for you unless you have Google Earth downloaded and installed on your computer. I wouldn't recommend it unless you have a fast computer and a fast connection to the Internet. http://www.coacht.com/inside/map_games.cfm...tid=2&keyhole=1 If I have it set right, it should update every hour with new data.

I'm looking at it right now. Shouldn't be all that hard. By the way, you can now find map links at the top of the basketball boards and on each section of the Scoreboard (right next to where it lists the sport). And yes, the map shows the final score when it is entered on the scoreboard. Could be easier to find it there than looking through a blue million games on the scoreboard.

I wasn't quite prepared for that to be sent out... but here's the updated (and permanent) link. We'll link it at the top of the boards and on the front page somewhere. http://www.coacht.com/inside/map_games.cfm Just choose your favorite sport. This is what it will look like in football... http://www.coacht.com/inside/map_games.cfm...wDate=11-4-2005

I wasn't quite prepared for that to be sent out... but here's the updated (and permanent) link. http://www.coacht.com/inside/map_games.cfm Just choose your favorite sport. This is how it will look for football... http://www.coacht.com/inside/map_games.cfm...wDate=11-4-2005

Should be working fine now.

The truth is that you wouldn't be pleased to have strangers criticizing your son's collegiate performance here on a high school website. Laura is getting along just fine. I think we can all find better things to talk about.

You may need to clear your temporary files... sounds like your not getting the updated stylesheet.

Looks like it might be fixed now. Let me know one way or the other.

Probably won't be fixed until I find a Macintosh to view it on.

Since when did they start bringing the Down Marker out to measure for a first down?

Sorry to have let this get off topic. CoachT will be back in a few days. This has been a uncharacteristically busy few weeks for us and we'll try to do better next time. Everyone knows where the public/private stuff belongs...

The feature is called "topic rating" and is not a measure of whether you agree or not. If it's a good topic with good information then give it several stars. If it's a bad topic with bad information, give it few stars. The rating option is located next to the topic title on the blue bar at the top of every topic page.

That is currently an option for Plus members only.

Enough with the bickering. Rebel Nation, I think the best way to find out who needs a site is to ask around at the games you attend and send some PM/email messages to some of the members here. Forming relationships with exisiting community newspaper sites or municipality/county websites would prove successful also.

Time zone and DST are controlled by you in your user profile.

You're on your own as far as the particulars are concerned, but yes, yes you can.

It gets moved up to the 1A 2A 3A forum, just like this one...

A new feature to help this process along is the new RSS button at the bottom of the page. A lot of you use these so-called "news aggregators" and now you can hook the CoachT.com boards into your software too. The football RSS feed publishes a list of the 25 most recently updated topics in the public football forums. The news reader pulls the list every so often and keeps you updated on activity. For those of you new to this, below are links to some of the more popular news readers. Install the software and follow the instructions for adding news feeds. The link to the CoachT.com Football Feed is located at the bottom of each page... just click the orange "RSS" icon. http://www.rssreader.com/ (Windows) http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/ (Mac) http://www.newsisfree.com/ (Web-based) Also.... I located another service that will allow those of you with websites to take the same RSS feed and post the list on your personal webpage. It might give your site a different look and keep it more fresh. Just visit the link below for information. http://www.feeddigest.com/ We probably ought to put this on a sticky topic so folks will find it.

Thank you for your enthusiasm. I've looked at the problem today and have made some improvments. Whenever I consider problems caused by high traffic, I always try to keep things in perspective... we served as many pageviews yesterday as most other high school sports sites will serve in nine months. It'll get better, thanks for hanging in there.