Good thoughtful rankings and comments. Look to be as close as you'll get for the Sect. 1 teams at this point with a number working on the 4-5 spots.

looks good except where's byram in the boys open rankings, they beat irvington by a considerable amount at regis and only lost to somers by 5 points at JFK.

Scarsdale boys?

Byram Hills boys are very good and all are juniors. Did Scarsdale race last weekend? If so they should be in there.

Scarsdale doesn't race invtationals early - they open up this weekend at the Warwick XC Mania meet.

Scarsdale has a great top 3 and should finish 2nd or 3rd at Warwick on Saturday behind NJ's top team Don Bosco and possibly Warwick. With three runners with Speed Ratings over 170 (based on dual meet times and comparative estimates). they look tough. May well enter in the #3 AA spot next week. And yeah, Bobcats do look like #2 in Class B, and if they can pull up a stronger 4-5 duo, they could make a good run at the Pirates.

Scarsdale looks good in duals, will def. be ranked after this weekend. Irvington at Regis was NOT a complete team so we can't really say Byram's TEAM beat them. This weekend will show more of what everybody has.

Overall, good thorough assessment except in regards to Class A boys. As in Lohud's poll, Fox Lane gets dumped from their high position because they were without their #2 runner, for whatever reason. Okay, though unless Mitchell is injured and out I can't agree with the logic. But who gets put at the top of A, a Horace Greeley team that I guess must have done great at Warwick? They were also without their #2 runner and fell way back to an average 21 seconds behind Dobbs Ferry, against whom they supposedly came in ahead of in the Big Red merged results two weeks before. Moving teams around for a reason is fine, but shouldn't the criteria be consistent?

The criteria has been consistent, ranking based on what was run that day, not what could have been run, for that reason Pawling has not been put ahead of Dobbs Ferry, although they could have the #1 runner in Class C but that has only been speculation all season and hasn't happened. As for being without anybody, it's going to happen with college visits, etc. but I rank based on the weeks performance by the runners run, as in other sports rankings are not done by guesstimates, as there are injuries, ineligibility rules for academics, ets. that may cause a team to lose a player and who knows if they will return. "Rumor" has it that 2 may be hurt on Fox Lane, but until they tell me themselves I am not going to keep them ranked at the top, because if it is true, they are a totally different team. IF Dobbs were to lose one Wortner for injury you would be a different team as well, and I'll bet you wouldn't say that I should keep you in the top 10 of county or in #1 spot of Class C, correct??? Nothing exact about doing the rankings, just one person's opinions once again but I'd say they are pretty close. The kids will all prove their spots as the weeks progress, won't need us to tell them where they are.

Okay, everyone knows that injuries will cause a team to dip in the rankings, although, come to think of it, I saw a lot of leeway with that rule last year. Maybe this year is different. I won't bother commenting on the Freyer stuff since I don't know of any pollster who would rank a team based on a rumor that somebody might someday run for a team. If you want to put Pawling at the top based on a maybe, go for it as soon as your rumor is confirmed.

But back to the case I mentioned, HG apparently loses its #2 (for a race), therefore runs with so-so results, and not only are they not dumped behind, say, Somers, but they are placed #9 in Sect 1. Again, I don't grok the logic behind that, but I guess there must be a reason for what looks to me a big inconsistency in the usage of the ranking guidelines.

i am inellgiable this season but will be competing in NXN & indoor.... so dont make comments unless you know your fact

-freyer