“I know, I know, the computer would like us better if we lost. I’ll try to stop bein’ awesome and everything…” (Shelli Trumbull photo)
Am I missing something here?
If you scan the newest state polls at washingtonbaseballpoll.com, you find that Hall of Fame coach Lem Elway thinks that Nooksack Valley is the 10th best 1A school playing right now.
A 5-5 Nooksack Valley squad.
A 5-5 Nooksack Valley squad that LOST to a 5-6 Coupeville squad earlier this season, blowing a six-run lead in the sixth.
A Coupeville squad that handed 2A Cedarcrest (11-2) its only Cascade Conference loss of the season.
Want to get even more confused? Go check out ScoreCzar.com, where their computer, “Debbie,” is in charge of the rankings.
“Debbie,” who I clashed with during football season, has Nooksack Valley 45th in 1A and Coupeville … 54th out of 66 teams.
Somehow, a 1-7 Chimacum squad that has been outscored 85-42 is “stronger” than the Wolves.
Plus, a 3-6 Mt. Baker, a 2-6 Seattle Christian, a 1-5 Riverside and a 3-6 Kettle Falls, just to get started. Oh yes, and Coupeville is ranked a hair (a very slim hair) ahead of South Whidbey, a team it drilled twice.
Apparently losing, if you do it with enough style, matters more than winning to some folks.
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