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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.

FL · 7A

FL · 7A

Working it out…

Who these schools are

St. Thomas Aquinas · FL

St. Thomas Aquinas High School has been named to the Catholic High School Honor Roll five times (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2010). It is the only Catholic high school in the Archdiocese of Miami to have been listed as one of the Top 50 Catholic high schools in the United States for five years. Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

St. Thomas Aquinas plays high school football in Florida.

Wherereal
Florida
A real programme in a real place.
Sizereal
2,420 students
From the school's own article.
Mascotreal
Raider Male
Foundedreal
1936
Typereal
Private
Coloursreal
Blue and Gold

Miami Central · FL

Miami Central Senior High School is a secondary school located at 1781 NW 95th Street in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, Florida. Its current principal is Raymond Sands. Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

Miami Central plays high school football in Florida.

Wherereal
Florida
A real programme in a real place.
Sizereal
1,404 students
From the school's own article.
Mascotreal
Rockets
Foundedreal
1959
Typereal
Public
School districtreal
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
The body that runs the school. Not the grouping above, which is ours.
Coloursreal
Green, 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.