The HAVES and HAVENOTS
I apologize if Gramps is a day late and a dollar short. I was going to give up rating teams this winter but decided to give it another go. I spent the last nine months writing a book about Minnesota State HS Nordic skiing (I was a state champ back nearly 60 years ago) and just published it on Bookpatch.com. You can look for it in the Bookpatch bookstore under Edmonson. So I am about two-thirds of the way through boys basketball classes and have not started on the girls. I may get two or three ratings posted for each class this year. Don't expect any regularity. You can check out some other good statistical ratings models when you don't see anything here. I met Vianney assistant coach Craig Kennedy yesterday at the Coaches vs. Cancer tournament. I have been doing some stats summaries for Eureka boys and girls for every team back to 1999 when the Post-Dispatch began summarizing basketball team statistics. The trouble was, Eureka had so...