Hello, and here is the 8 September 2024 Massey Ratings for the CIF-CS Girls Water Polo. A lot of movement amongst the D-2/D-3 teams as they are finally inputting scores, but also playing early season tournaments. There are 8 teams who have played 10 games and two that have played 11 games (two weeks into the season).
Frontier has dropped a spot after losing 8-4 to Edison HS that appears it was a closer game than the score indicates. After 3 quarters it was tied 3-3, when it appears Edison finally pulled it together and scored 5 goals.
Except for Sanger who has played 7 games (with one forfeit), most of the Division 1 teams have played only 4-6 games. After the first tournament at the end of August, there has been very few games played by D-1. However, that changes starting this week. We should see a massive reshuffling of the top 10 after next weekend with most teams playing D-1 are on the road with tournaments.
Starting next week you will see a change. Mr. Massey has made some database changes. First, teams that are listed first on Maxpreps are the home team, which allows us to start calculating a Home Pool Advantage. Second is, we can also turn this off for tournaments. So, if a team has a road win against a higher rank team, it will help in pushing the team upward in the rankings. If a team is at home, and loses, it will also punish the team downward.