Optional AAU Rant - Rankings #3

More proof that this blog is what I want it to be, rather than focus on what produces hits, I'm now using it to place the 5th and 7th grade girls AAU Power Index I've fiddle together and maintained.  Not as much fun as keeping stats for Dice Baseball (possibly because of the stress I get over the kids' vastly improved scheduled, compared with last year) but it is slowly improving my Excel-fu.

Thanks to Mothers Day weekend keeping the games to a minimum, this weekend should be showcase tournament after showcase.

Still, with a limited number of game from western Connecticut to the Ohio border, from Northern Virginia to Upstate New York, the handful of games massively affected the calculations.

First off, Collegeville lost two games, knocking them off the top spot, and the Bruins played teams that lowered their index by a few points.  The Collegeville losses boosted the index for Clutch and York, even though they did not play.  

After this weekend, the minimum games to be ranked will go up to 9.   Yes, my daughter's team is somewhere on the rankings.  Scariest data not on the index?  The first appearance of the Comets 5th Grade National Team should give most other teams pause, if not mind-numbing anxiety.  From their first tournament that I could find, they are as good as advertised.

For 7th grade, another strong showing by Bensalem boosts them into the otherwise stagnant Top 5.  Lady Cougars won another tournament, but the level of competition only garnered them .010 more on the index and keeps them at 12th. 

NOTE:  I did find some more 7th grade tournaments in New Jersey that I need to log from earlier this season, but it appears the teams are quite insular.   While the 10-1 DC Premier is a quality team with a weaker schedule, I need to go back and research DC Premier GUAA, which appears to be their "National" team, whose only reason they aren't on the Index is the lack of games.  Easily Top Five competition, if not better.

And no, my older kid is not on this index.  They're a comfortable .535 with a losing record.  That's what happens when you play the 4th toughest schedule in the region.  

(Edit: Of course, posting these for posterity, and nothing else, has cursed us with both kids playing back-to-backs to end the night, and it was too late to cancel our Friday hotel rooms without cancelling Saturday as well.  Good news is, they are all games against quality teams they should beat, so hopefully, I'll see their teams' rankings rise.)