South County up in ratings

Never heard of Massey ratings. What are they? Where do you follow them?

Although not Baseballamerica or PG ratings, it is yet another tool (for rankings). Started mostly for football (and basketball) I believe, and now baseball. It is linked up to highschoolsports.net where son's school's (and many other schools)schedules are listed online. They have their own website, too.

Like most rankings, when your school is on it, it is a good ranking!

Congrats to South County for rising up to the top FIVE! (Not my son's school, just rooting for our Virginia teams!)

For whatever it's worth, Maxpreps.com also has South County ranked highly -- in fact, they are #1 overall nationally in that ranking.

Obviously tough to compare HS teams across the country, SC is a very good team. The Massey rating(although I've never heard of it) is probably as good as any.

Not a knock on South County, i do believe they have a good team....

but i find it hard to take a poll seriously that can justify moving up a team 85 spots between polls! you can't be really researching teams enough to make a legitimate poll if there is THAT much variation

Very nice for South County!

According to the website, Massey Ratings are based on statistical models. What I don't know is if they use only schools listed on highschoolsports.net ? Mr. Massey was a Virginia Tech grad school grad. Thesis and bio are on the website. His statistical models are used in the BCS. The formulas lost me, but the scatter graph was pretty. Looks like his thesis has become a hobby that every kid (and parent!) who checks schedules and results on the highschoolsports.net sees rankings for many sports. Not a plug here, but highschoolsports.net has a notification system that emails me when there is a change in schedules (probably updated by the coach?)