New this season - and only on HighSchoolSports.net - fans of high school football across the country now get Massey Ratings.
View unmatched analysis and comparisons of varsity high school football teams across the country including conference, state, regional and national ratings powered by the system created by Ken Massey and used by the BCS.
To see how your high school football team ranks, just pick a state and enter the amazing Massey Ratings!
HighSchoolSports.net's Massey Ratings for varsity football are updated every Tuesday during the season and are posted at 2pm ET on HighSchoolSports.net.
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Schedule: The difficulty of each team's schedule is measured in the Sched column. Factors include the quality of each opponent, the opponent's Massey Rating and an adjustment for homefield advantage. Note that schedule strength only represents games played to date. Until a team plays its first game, it will not have a schedule strength rating.
Offense: A team's Offense power rating essentially measures the ability to score points. This does not distinguish how points are scored, so good defensive play that leads to scoring will be reflected in the Offense rating. In general, the offensive rating can be interpreted as the number of points a team would be expected to score against an average defense.
Defense: A team's Defense power rating reflects the ability to prevent its opponent from scoring. An average defense will be rated at zero. Positive or negative defensive ratings would respectively lower or raise the opponent's expected score accordingly.
It should be emphasized that the Offense/Defense breakdown is simply a post-processing step, and as such has no bearing on the overall rating. A consequence of this is that the Offense/Defense ratings may not always match actual production numbers. A team that routinely wins close games may have somewhat inflated Offense/Defense ratings to reflect the fact that they are likely to play well when they have to.
Power: In contrast to overall rating, Power is a better measure of potential based on schedule, offense and defense, and is less concerned with wins and losses.
Bio
Ken Massey is the computer ratings analyst for HighSchoolSports.net. Ken is a math professor at Carson Newman College in TN, and has been providing football rankings since 1995. In 1999, Ken was asked by SEC commissioner Roy Kramer to add his ratings to the BCS Formula, which chooses the participants for the NCAA Division 1 National Championship game. This same computer algorithm is used to calculate HighSchoolSports.net's Massey Ratings for high school boys varsity football across the country.
