Any two schools, one prediction
Pick two programmes and the model makes its call: a predicted margin, a points total, a win chance, and the thing a margin actually rests on — where it lands. They do not have to be scheduled to play, or be in the same state, or have ever met.
Ratings come from real results in the states where scores are collected; in states without real scores yet the model knows little, and its call sits close to even. The game does not exist and the number is a model’s opinion, which is the only honest thing to call it. How the predictions are made.
AL · 7A
AL · 7A
Working it out…
Who these schools are
Hoover · AL
Hoover High School (HHS, formerly W.A. Berry High School) is a four-year public high school in the Birmingham, Alabama suburb of Hoover. It is one of two high schools in the Hoover City School System and one of three International Baccalaureate schools in the Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area. Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
Hoover is one of the largest schools in Alabama.
- Wherereal
- Alabama
- A real programme in a real place.
- Sizereal
- 2,919 students
- From the school's own article. One of the largest schools in its state.
- Groupingthis site's
- Region 1 (AL)
- This site's grouping, built by region so travel and rivalry look plausible. It is not the state association's alignment and will not match a real bracket.
- Mascotreal
- Buccaneers (Bucs)
- Foundedreal
- 1994
- Typereal
- Public
- School districtreal
- Hoover City Schools
- The body that runs the school. Not the grouping above, which is ours.
- Plays inreal
- AHSAA Class 7A
- The association's own classification, not ours.
- Coloursreal
- Orange, Black, White
Thompson · AL
Thompson High School is a public high school established in 1921 in Alabaster, Alabama. Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
Thompson is one of the largest schools in Alabama.
- Wherereal
- Alabama
- A real programme in a real place.
- Sizereal
- 2,132 students
- From the school's own article. One of the largest schools in its state.
- Classificationa label
- 7A
- How its own state labels that size. Ladders differ between states, so this is for display; the model uses the size band.
- Groupingthis site's
- Region 1 (AL)
- This site's grouping, built by region so travel and rivalry look plausible. It is not the state association's alignment and will not match a real bracket.
- Mascotreal
- Warriors
- Foundedreal
- 1921
- School districtreal
- Alabaster City Schools
- The body that runs the school. Not the grouping above, which is ours.
- Coloursreal
- Scarlet, black, and white
Nothing here is saved and it doesn’t touch your units. The schools and their states are real. A classification is how a state labels school size and a district here is this site’s own grouping, not the association’s. The game here is imagined; the number is the model’s.