Top teams in Tennessee

[RankWrestlers]

Starting to get a good number of matches on the record for the 2016-17 season, and the team races are coming into focus a bit.  There will certainly be more changes in the coming weeks, as the season is still young, but following are the top teams right now according to RankWrestlers.com:

 

AAA: (1) Bradley Central, (2) Beech, (3) Tennessee, (4) Cleveland, (5) Knoxville Halls, (6) Wilson Central, (7) Blackman, (8) William Blount, (9) Summit, (10) Gibbs

 

A-AA: (1) Page, (2) Pigeon Forge, (3) Greenbrier, (4) Forrest, (5) Alco, (6) Hixson, (7) Greeneville, (8) Chattanooga Central, (9) Red Bank, (10) Sullivan East

 

DII: (1) Christian Brothers, (2) Father Ryan, (3) Mccallie School, (4) Montgomery Bell Academy, (5) Baylor School, (6) Nolensville, (7) Briarcrest Christian, (8) Brentwood Academy, (9) Weeb School of Knoxville, (10) Franklin Road Academy

[ObserverW]

I'm not going to pay for your site, but Mr. Rankman, can you explain how you arrived at these rankings, I feel like there must be some sort of scientific method. 

[Bump11]

I'm not going to pay for your site, but Mr. Rankman, can you explain how you arrived at these rankings, I feel like there must be some sort of scientific method.

haha this was good i must admit

[coachpeck]

Hello.  I'm not sure where these numbers and rankings come from, but Nolensville is a public school and should not be ranked.  We are just freshmen and sophomores and we are working to get better every day.  Someday I hope to be on one of these lists but this year is a stretch and to be ranked in private schools is an honor  

[ObserverW]

Peck, I would not be suprised to see your team ranked legitimately within the next few years. We've all seen what you didn with Ravenwood and expect no less at Nville. Good luck.

[mrfixalot49]

To each their oun opinion. But you forgot about Soddy Daisy who has beaten WC and WB.

[fooseball95]

Lol

[Sommers]

To each their oun opinion. But you forgot about Soddy Daisy who has beaten WC and WB.

East TN ties, but big oversite on this one and yes a future program coming up in nolensville just a few miles southeast of Ravenwood

[hawks11]

Here's how it says the rankings work on the website. It's an interesting concept. It seems like it would be more accurate the later into the season it gets.

 

"How It Works

 

RankWrestlers is a subscription-based website. For $25 / year, you can see all the ranking information in every state. If you try it out for a year and decide not to renew, there is no automatic renewal. The information is taken directly from TrackWrestling. Most states / coaches are very good at providing most of the match information to TrackWrestling. In the rare case that you sign up and find that there is no / not very much information about you / your opponents, you are entitled to a full refund within 24 hours.

 

Obviously not all wins / losses are equal, so just comparing a wrestler's win percentage does not give an accurate indication of their performance. RankWrestlers considers multiple factors when ranking the wrestlers. All wins and losses are adjusted according to the type of win and the quality of the opponent. The average of the three highest adjusted win percentages of opponents that the wrestler defeated is listed under the column "3 best." A column title "H2H" makes head-to-head adjustments for matches between closely ranked opponents. If a lower ranked wrestler that is within fifteen percent in the total ranking defeats a higher-ranked wrestler, then the higher-ranked wrestler's ranking is reduced by half the difference and the lower ranked wrestler is raised by half the difference to move the winner of the contest in front of the loser. It is possible to have multiple head-to-head adjustments, though, so a different head-to-head adjustment could possibly leave the losing wrestler in front of the winning wrestler from an earlier adjustment.

 

The adjusted win percentage and top 3 wins are averaged, and the head-to-head adjustments are applied to determine the total ranking. The ranking will make the biggest improvement when a wrestler defeats tougher opponents, and it will drop more with losses to opponents with lower win percentages. A wrestler's ranking will also change as opponents wrestle more matches, because the opponent's adjusted win percentage is continuously updated throughout the entire season (as their record becomes more indicative of their strength), and the new opponent win percentages are applied to the wrestler's earlier wins / losses."