We just developed a brand new number-cruncher, allowing us to do these rankings. The rather complicated algorithm takes into account both cross country and track seasons, based on various categories and weights. I (Jason Byrne) developed this on about 12 hours of coding on Friday, forgetting all about lunch that day! But very pleased with the result here. It even indicates what the computer believes the biggest weakness is at this point.
Teams that did not have much of a track season or did not have at least four of their top distance runners out for track may see their scores drop. However, teams that busted it and looked great this spring will show higher. Hopefully it is a good balance to predict who is strong coming in! It does not necessarily take into account any new freshman or transfers.
The score represents the team's weighted composite average rank across all categories. The "highest" column represents the highest ranking they received in a category, and conversely the lowest is the worst ranking they received in a category.
Subscribers can see stuff like this all the time. We'll be locking this new feature--called composite team rankings--down very soon. You can use this tool, like all of our others, to crunch it by other parameters or by district/region/class/conference, etc. So many reasons to subscribe! And we'll keep developing more! So go ahead and subscribe now!
| Rank | Team | Score | Highest | Lowest | Weakness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Severna Park (MD) | 2.64 | 1 | 16 | 5000m 1-2 Gap (20.00) |
| 2 | Walter Johnson High School (MD) | 4.78 | 2 | 13 | 5000m 1-5 Gap (1:02.8) |
| 3 | Richard Montgomery High School (MD) | 6.36 | 3 | 13 | 5000m 1-4 Average (17:01.3) |
| 4 | Loyola-Blakefield (MD) | 8.68 | 1 | 40 | 5000m 1-5 Gap (2:05.3) |
| 5 | Gov. Thomas Johnson High School (MD) | 8.88 | 3 | 34 | 5000m 1-2 Gap (46.00) |
| 6 | Walt Whitman High School (MD) | 9.16 | 5 | 22 | 5000m 1-3 Gap (45.50) |
| 7 | Thomas S. Wootton High School (MD) | 13.9 | 1 | 25 | 3200m 1-4 Average (10:55.8) |
| 8 | Paint Branch High School (MD) | 14.6 | 1 | 24 | 5000m 1-3 Gap (54.00) |
| 9 | River Hill High School (MD) | 15 | 5 | 27 | 5000m 1-5 Gap (1:33.0) |
| 10 | Dulaney High School (MD) | 15.2 | 3 | 35 | 5000m 1-4 Average (17:38.3) |
| 11 | Urbana High School (MD) | 15.3 | 6 | 29 | 1600m 1-4 Average (4:51.8) |
| 12 | Quince Orchard High School (MD) | 16.4 | 7 | 38 | 5000m 1-3 Gap (1:17.0) |
| 13 | North Harford High School (MD) | 18.2 | 10 | 41 | 5000m 1-4 Gap (1:41.3) |
| 14 | Century High School (MD) | 18.8 | 4 | 41 | 5000m 1-5 Gap (2:07.2) |
| 15 | Northwest High School (MD) | 19 | 11 | 43 | 5000m 1-3 Gap (1:30.0) |
| 16 | Catoctin High School (MD) | 19.2 | 3 | 50 | 5000m 1-5 Gap (3:07.6) |
| 17 | Catonsville High School (MD) | 19.4 | 1 | 42 | 3200m Top 4 |
| 18 | Linganore High School (MD) | 19.7 | 9 | 43 | 5000m 1-2 Gap (1:09.0) |
| 19 | Centennial High School (MD) | 20.7 | 12 | 33 | 1600m Top 4 |
| 20 | Towson High School (MD) | 21.9 | 2 | 35 | 3200m 1-4 Average (11:05.3) |
| 21 | Reservoir High School (MD) | 22.4 | 6 | 34 | 5000m 1-4 Average (17:37.2) |
| 22 | Oakdale (MD) | 22.6 | 18 | 36 | 5000m 1-3 Gap (1:12.7) |
| 23 | Mt. Hebron High School (MD) | 23.4 | 9 | 44 | 1600m Top 4 |
| 24 | Albert Einstein High School (MD) | 23.5 | 3 | 41 | 1600m 1-4 Average (4:57.2) |
| 25 | Winston Churchill High School (MD) | 23.6 | 11 | 49 | 5000m 1-3 Gap (1:58.0) |
| 26 | Bohemia Manor High School (MD) | 26.5 | 17 | 38 | 5000m 1-5 Gap (1:59.0) |
| 27 | Oakland Mills High School (MD) | 26.8 | 4 | 39 | 5000m 1-4 Average (17:43.1) |
| 28 | South River High School (MD) | 27.2 | 7 | 44 | 5000m 1-3 Gap (1:30.6) |
| 29 | Atholton High School (MD) | 27.9 | 7 | 49 | 5000m 1-4 Average (18:00.6) |
| 30 | Broadneck Senior High School (MD) | 28.2 | 11 | 44 | 5000m 1-4 Average (17:51.0) |
| 31 | Annapolis Senior High School (MD) | 28.8 | 7 | 50 | 5000m 1-5 Average (18:15.2) |
| 32 | Middletown High School (MD) | 28.9 | 16 | 42 | 5000m 1-4 Average (17:50.0), Not Enough Data |
| 33 | Our Lady of Good Counsel (MD) | 29.1 | 2 | 50 | 5000m 1-4 Average (18:02.8) |
| 34 | Georgetown Preparatory School (MD) | 30.8 | 8 | 31 | 5000m 1-4 Average (17:34.3), Not Enough Data |
| 35 | South Carroll High School (MD) | 31.8 | 20 | 35 | 5000m 1-2 Gap (47.40), Not Enough Data |
| 36 | Kent Island High School (MD) | 31.8 | 12 | 36 | 5000m 1-5 Gap (1:57.2), Not Enough Data |
| 37 | Montgomery Blair High School (MD) | 32.3 | 15 | 29 | 5000m Top 4, Not Enough Data |
| 38 | Northern-Calvert High School (MD) | 32.6 | 23 | 42 | 5000m 1-5 Gap (2:11.0) |
| 39 | Great Mills (MD) | 33.7 | 22 | 48 | 5000m 1-3 Gap (1:51.8) |
| 40 | Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School (MD) | 33.7 | 18 | 48 | 5000m 1-4 Gap (2:21.0) |
| 41 | Poolesville High School (MD) | 34.2 | 19 | 50 | 5000m 1-3 Gap (3:12.9), Not Enough Data |
| 42 | Clarksburg High School (MD) | 34.6 | 16 | 46 | 5000m 1-4 Average (17:57.8) |
| 43 | Boonsboro High School (MD) | 37.2 | 27 | 46 | 5000m 1-3 Gap (1:34.9) |
| 44 | Marriotts Ridge (MD) | 37.7 | 7 | 38 | 5000m 1-4 Average (17:42.6), Not Enough Data |
| 45 | Gaithersburg High School (MD) | 38.8 | 22 | 47 | 3200m 1-4 Average (11:34.3) |
| 46 | Rockville High School (MD) | 38.9 | 23 | 48 | 5000m 1-5 Gap (2:33.1), Not Enough Data |
| 47 | Frederick High School (MD) | 40.2 | 21 | 45 | 5000m 1-4 Average (17:53.8), Not Enough Data |
| 48 | Calvert Hall College High School (MD) | 41.6 | 33 | 49 | 5000m 1-5 Gap (3:04.6) |
| 49 | Bel Air High School (MD) | 42.2 | 9 | 49 | 5000m 1-5 Average (18:12.4), Not Enough Data |
| 50 | Perryville High School (MD) | 42.5 | 28 | 49 | 5000m Top 5 |
| 51 | Patuxent High School (MD) | 46.7 | 42 | 50 | 1600m Top 4 |