If we have any techies out there, I dug up a little info on the Simple Ratings System algorithm. It is indeed a very simple and elegant way to factor in the two main ingredients to a sports ranking system which are 1, how you play, and 2, who you play. For example, given a league of 4 teams (a, b, c...

Eight players for OHC. Our big space-eaters should have owned the boards in this one. Instead our guards were getting all of the rebounds. Maybe just maybe the laws of physics were kicking in and all of the forced long range shots by OHC were creating longer rebounds? Whatever, I will let the big ki...

You can pretty much throw away all of the current Top 25 polls come next Sunday. I am pretty sure the committee will instead rely heavily on the NCAA's Simple Rating System (SRS) rankings. SRS emphasizes two things, margin of victory and strength of schedule. If we have a "squeaker" win ov...

I would really like to think that the Jacks have a little extra incentive going for them next week by playing for a seed position. With a win, I think they are certainly worthy of it. Hard to believe, but they put up 630 yards of offense on the Yotes today and 400 of it was on the ground.

ESPN streaming is alive now. More Valley football in progress.

My two cents on our troubles during this season are this: I do not sense any cohesiveness between offense and defense. They do not have each other's back. Playing as two separate units which they are but if things are working right, they should be able to feed off of each other.

As a techie, I wonder if the video board could have been used as a backup scoreboard and clock given the right software, etc. was installed.

Onside fails. Ball game. This has been a very frustrating last month of football.

Down 30-23 with 32 seconds left. Onside kick coming up from the 50 yard line.

27-16 with around 6 minutes left after Lenoir TD. Onside kick fails.