🏅 ALL-THREE RIVERS LEAGUE 🏅
👏 Congratulations to our players who received Honorable Mention Recognition from the Three Rivers League!
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🏅 ALL-THREE RIVERS LEAGUE 🏅
👏 Congratulations to our players who received Second Team All-League Recognition from the Three Rivers League!
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🏅 ALL-THREE RIVERS LEAGUE 🏅
👏 Congratulations to our players who received First Team All-League Recognition from the Three Rivers League!
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@AndrewNemec@OCPioFootBall Thanks for shouting out @kasensaffer. Had an unreal year when everyone knew he was getting the ball and still averaged just shy of 9 ypc in the TRL. 828 yards and 13 TD in those 5 league games alone.
@bkbeban@AndrewNemec Agreed but unfortunately that’s the geographic make up of our state. The leagues down south are all 5 teams. The issue isn’t with those leagues. It’s with the PIL having 9 and only 1 non-league game and the rest of 6A leagues being 6 or 5 teams per league.
These are 4 things I think should change while fully acknowledging that there is no perfect system:
1) League sizes should be similar (within 1 of each other). (4 leagues with 5, PIL 9). Results in more consistent non-league comparisons.
2) Point Differential should be (cont)
@DereLawrence@CoachSkin I see argument for revising how rankings are calculated but think bringing human bias into it is not great and it’s nearly impossible to find neutral observers who have seen enough of teams from Portland all the way down to Medford to make objective ranking decisions.
@clock_picker Simple solution: Follow the CIF model and most importantly, hold people accountable when they break the rules. Also a publicly available transfer website that lists all transfers and the reason for the transfer like CIF does. Would be a huge improvement to what we have.
I don’t disagree that recruiting in this state is out of control & needs to have some enforcement by OSAA….Trust me. But to have a league that plays only 1 non-league game, against mostly non-top tier teams, and then get the benefit of a weak conference is not right for rankings
@MLB2PDX They benefitted from the system that’s in place for both rankings and league make up and the system ranked them that high. The system is flawed and should be fixed, which is my entire point.
These are 4 things I think should change while fully acknowledging that there is no perfect system:
1) League sizes should be similar (within 1 of each other). (4 leagues with 5, PIL 9). Results in more consistent non-league comparisons.
2) Point Differential should be (cont)
@MLB2PDX To be fair to those three teams, their ranking earned them those spots, not the automatic slots. So those three teams all would have been top 16 even if the PIL only had 2 auto qualifiers. It’s the ranking system that we use and league sizes that need to be revised.
recognizing that a close loss to a top team is worth more than a blowout win vs a winless team.
4) We shouldn’t use a system in 2026 that doesn’t count out-of-state games or cross division games. We have too much data now-a-days to have a system that doesn’t fully include those.
a factor but is capped (21, 28, or 35) How you play should matter. MaxPreps caps point diff at 15 for example.
3) SOS should be more than strictly OWP. Using opponents ratings should factor into weighted results (combined with point differential). Result is (cont)
@MoneyYang15 So for arguments sake, a 1 point loss to the 11th ranked team should be valued the same as a 45 point loss to the number 19th ranked team?