Comments on: Top 50 of 2009

By: amiles

amiles — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:58:17 +0000

is the list going to be updtaed post mba?

By: sheatsb

sheatsb — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:48:41 +0000

Two things –

1 – pacrankings – To ask the same question in every available channel (when we have a policy about such things) is rude and time consuming.

2 – I’m with Jeff – Your logic is flawed here. To follow your logic would be akin to throwing out most methodology of running even a basic tournament and reward flukes.

3 – Anonymous comments are now banned.

By: Jeffrey Miller

Jeffrey Miller — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:36:14 +0000

1 last thing – Bishop Guertin and GBS would still be in the top 30-35 I think if we only counted their top five tournaments.

By: Jeffrey Miller

Jeffrey Miller — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:59:44 +0000

I will defend the Bishop Guertin’s, Glenbrook South SV’s, Homewood Flossmoor GH’s, and any other “no-bid” teams in the top 50. I’m pretty sure that Bishop Guertin DS has one of the highest totals of bid rounds this year. If I’m not mistaken, they are at 7 bid rounds. Although they have zero bids — they still have reached those bid rounds, unlike most national teams. So yes, they’re just as good and if not better than some of these other teams who may have only won 1 lucky bid round somewhere. The same goes for GBS and HoFlo.

The problem with your logic is assuming that a team who travels to 1 tournament and wins it, should be automatically ranked over a team who has traveled to 5-7 tournamnets and reached quarters at every tournament… this is not true. I would argue that the team that has attended those tournaments could probably beat that random team who’s been to one place mainly because of experience and things they’ve learned on the circuit thus far.

Additionally, I think that you should not always post as “Anonymous” or even your pen name “PacRankings.” Man up and reveal your name – because right now you just sound like a bitter high school student who’s jealous because your name isn’t on the list.

By: pacrankings

pacrankings — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:02:57 +0000

Teams that have zero bids are ranked within the top 25…this list is rewards people for going to schools with a large travel budget instead of actually winning elim rounds. That’s not an accurate description of the “Top 50…” even if it might become more accurate as you approach the top 5/10, you should put out a list of such a large number of teams unless you’re willing to rank them in an precise fashion.

By: pacrankings

pacrankings — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:39:39 +0000

Can you post the top 50 of 2009, using only the top 5 tournaments for each team?

By: jeffrey miller

jeffrey miller — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:59:24 +0000

Thanks – And I’ve fixed it.

By: Trevor Aufderheide

Trevor Aufderheide — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:39:14 +0000

Numbers 23 and 26 on the list are the same team