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WIAA still in love with fake teams

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 9, 2024| Leave a Comment »

“We’re #1! We don’t have a team, but we’re #1!!!”

Psst, someone tell the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association its basketball rankings system is still broken.

It was just days ago that the WIAA finally corrected — after three weeks — the fact it had a boys’ hoops squad ranked #1 despite that team not actually existing this season.

You can read about it here:

WIAA ranks seemingly non-existent boys’ hoops team #1

And now the cucumber sandwich eatin’ scalawags are back at it.

A scan of the WIAA’s RPI rankings Tuesday reveals the sudden emergence of something called Firm Foundation Christian as the new #1 among 1B girls.

Not Neah Bay, not Crosspoint, not Mount Vernon Christian — the triple threat trio of the division.

Firm Foundation Christian.

The Eagles boast a 1-0 record, with a win Jan. 9 over the Washington School for the Deaf, which is 2-2, and … oh, here we go again.

When you click through from the WIAA, you find Firm Foundation Christian doesn’t even list a girls’ basketball team on its site, just a boys’ team.

Look over at the Washington School for the Deaf, and its girls’ team shows a 2-1 record, not 2-2, with no record of any contest against Firm Foundation Christian.

So off I went to the actual school website for Firm Foundation Christian … and, yep, no active girls’ hoops program.

The Eagles currently offer volleyball and boys’ basketball and plan to offer girls’ basketball in the future.

And when that first team arrives at some later date, it’ll be nice to know the program has already been ranked #1 in the state.

So, they got that going for them, which is nice.

The WIAA, which uses those RPI rankings when it goes to seed teams for the state playoffs?

Them folks still need to put down the cucumber sandwiches and keep a closer eye on their computers, which appear to be going haywire worse than SkyNet.

Otherwise, we all might start thinking the organization isn’t very good at this whole ranking thing.

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Computer overlords like Wolf hardball squad

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on April 25, 2023| Leave a Comment »

CHS baseball coach Steve Hilborn hasn’t entirely trusted computers since Skynet went whack-a-doodle in those Terminator films. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Those machines run on 1’s and 0’s approve of our prairie hardball ways.

Evans Rankings, which has smiled favorably on several Coupeville High School sports teams during the 2022-2023 school year, likes the Wolf varsity baseball squad.

After feeding all the data into Newman — the resident computer possibly bent on world domination — noted number cruncher Matt Evans emerged from the basement Monday with the news CHS lands at #7 in 2B in his first rankings of the season.

The Wolves, who sit at 11-4 heading into a game at Concrete Tuesday, have five regular-season tilts left on the schedule.

After that, Coupeville heads off to the three-team District 1/2 tourney, where it will be the top seed in a single-elimination royal rumble with a state tourney berth at stake.

 

To see ER’s complete prep baseball rankings for 4A-1B, pop over to:

ER Washington Prep Baseball Rankings through 4/22/23

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To respect or not to respect?

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on November 2, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Mikey Robinett is here to crush fools and take names. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Evans Rankings rules, the rest of you drool.

Matt Evans, the seer of Washington state high school football, and his trusty computer, Newman, are the one outlet truly buying in to Coupeville’s gridiron giants being a state tourney threat.

As the Wolves await Sunday’s reveal of who, where, and when they will play in the 12-team royal rumble, a scan of various pollsters and rankers finds a fair amount of disrespect for a 7-1 CHS squad.

Now to be fair, when you’ve just won your first league title, and punched your first ticket to state, in 32 years, it’s easy to see why.

Out of sight means out of mind, and it’s easy for many to just plug in the same old names “cause they were there before.”

It happened to Coupeville boys’ basketball earlier in 2022, when a 16-0 record didn’t always earn the Wolves a full amount of respect.

After CHS hoops made its first state tourney trip since 1988 and played prime-time teams Kalama and Lake Roosevelt tough, however, several rival coaches had nice things to say about the Wolves.

Now they know who we are.

The same thing can happen for football, especially if the Wolves make some noise in the state tourney.

For now, Evans Rankings has Coupeville at #7 among 2B schools (I bow to my computer overlords), while the Associated Press and the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association both plunk the Wolves at #10.

SB Live leaves CHS out of its Top 10 but does have it third in its “next teams up.”

So, the Wolves, having punched a ticket to the 12-team state tourney, have already outplayed what is essentially a #13 ranking…

And Ryland Spencer, noted hamburger fiend and prep football savant?

He leaves Coupeville completely out of his Top 10 on Cascadia Preps, which proves Cow Town needs to produce a good enough burger to lure the man, the myth, the meat-eatin’ machine, to Whidbey to watch a game in the future.

Get on it, chefs!

In the end, of course, none of these pollsters or rankers, whether they be man or computer, matter as much as the guys who step on the field reppin’ the red and black.

Win, and they have to give you respect, whether they want to or not.

 

Associated Press 2B poll for Nov. 2:

1. Napavine – (9-0) – 90 poll points
2. Okanogan – (9-0) – 80
3. Lind/Ritzville/Sprague – (7-1) – 70
4. Toledo – (7-1) – 65
5. River View – (8-1) – 45
6. Chewelah (Jenkins) – (6-2) – 41
7. Columbia (Burbank) – (7-2) – 29
8. Pe Ell/Willapa Valley – (6-3) – 24
9. Raymond – (7-2) – 20
10-tie. Coupeville – (7-1) – 9
10-tie. Liberty (Spangle) – (6-2) – 9

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Our computer overlords favor us!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on October 10, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Zane Oldenstadt and Co. have gained the favor of our computer overlords. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Rung by rung, we climb the ladder.

Fresh off a 48-6 drubbing of 2A Bellingham, the Coupeville High School football team jumps from #7 to #6 in the latest 2B overview from Evans Rankings.

Stats hound Matt Evans feeds his data into Newman, a diabolical computer likely bent on world domination, and it spits out its opinion every week.

After making a debut at #10 two weeks ago, the Wolves, who are 5-1, have climbed each week.

Coupeville’s next-door neighbor, 1A South Whidbey — the only team the Wolves have lost to this season — are ranked #8 among 1A schools.

And how does this compare to the RPI rankings compiled by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, which are “official?”

The WIAA has Coupeville at #8 in 2B and South Whidbey at #7 in 1A.

Personally, I prefer Newman, my favorite computer overlord.

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Ranking gods bestow honor on Wolves

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 26, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Grady Rickner crashes to the hoop during 2B Coupeville’s thunking of 3A Oak Harbor. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The gym is quiet, but the rankers are hard at work.

Even with Coupeville High School’s basketball teams on a holiday break, the Wolves can still make a splash on the internet.

Case in point – the undefeated CHS boys hoops squad landing at #6 among all 2B schools when Evans Rankings dropped its first set of numbers Sunday afternoon.

The Wolves (5-0) trail Okanogan (5-0), Chief Leschi (6-0), Ilwaco (7-0), Lake Roosevelt (6-0), and Rainier (6-1) at the moment, with 75% of the regular season yet to be played.

Coupeville’s Northwest 2B/1B League rivals La Conner (3-3) and Friday Harbor (2-4) sit at #35 and #48 on the 2B chart, out of 53 ranked teams.

NWL rivals Mount Vernon Christian (6-1), Orcas Island (2-4), Darrington (3-3), and Concrete (0-6) are at #9, #27, #37, and #49, respectively, among ranked teams playing 1B ball.

Evans Rankings, which is far superior to MaxPreps and the WIAA when it comes to ranking teams, is the work of Matthew Evans.

He’s a former writer and editor whose work has appeared in Rant Sports, Stoppage Time Soccer, and VAVEL USA.

To see the complete boys hoops rankings, pop over to:

Washington Prep Boys Basketball Rankings through 12/25/2021

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