yeah ok so have I. and its not like the bayside conference in MD is any good well in fact they suck.. dont forget St Marys Annapolis who never won anything lol. Maybe Delmar should schedule St John Bosco or IMG next year.. sheesh
read and weep
http://www.calpreps.c
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The Non-State W-L records they put out shows each state's record in games against teams from other states. It has Delaware near the bottom at # 46 out of 52 (50 states + DC + a separate prep school category). The data only includes results against the top 50 teams in each state, which throws the DE #s off because DE has < 50 teams, so its weakest teams' results are not filtered out as they are for states that have > 50 teams, which is most states.
IMO, the numerical ranking that they put out for every team is a much better indicator of how DE teams stack up against the rest of the country. If you look at the teams they have as the top 10 in Delaware right now, (statistically) they have the following national rankings:
1 - Hodgson is # 917 -- 6%
2 - Middletown is # 1271 -- 9%
3 - Sussex Central is # 1504 -- 10%
4 - Dover is # 1604 -- 11%
5 - Salesianum is # 1855 -- 13%
6 - Woodbridge is # 2416 -- 17%
7 - Delmar is # 2900 -- 20%
8 - Friends is # 3515 -- 24%
9 - AI DuPont is # 3832 -- 27%
10 - Archmere is # 3961 -- 28%
They don't differentiate D1 or D2 and its a coincidence at the moment that their top 5 is all D1 teams and their 2nd 5 is all D2 teams.
The percentages aren't from the website, I calculated them using 14,400 as the # of HS football teams in the US (that was the lowest team ranking that I could find on the site).
The way to interpret the % is that right now, 6% of the the teams in the US are statistically better than Hodgson, etc,:
When you look at it this way, DE holds its own. The eye test counts for something (both in terms of individual players and teams), but there are too many HS teams and not enough games & common opponents to be able to say how some of our teams would do if they played in another state...