I'm not sure I fully trust those Max Preps rankings.
Fair enough! I brought this up at the United Soccer Coaches High School Rankings Committee last Thursday in Baltimore and have asked our leadership at that level to confer with MaxPreps about tweaking their formula. Kyle spoke with Alisa Dancer of MaxPreps about this as well.
Way too many 'points' are awarded to larger classification schools in addition to 'wins' in general due to their logarithm formula. There are fallacies with the MaxPreps ratings, but if everyone would enter their schedules and scores in a timely manner, a lot of the discrepancies will work themselves out.
As for making stuff up, you are not wrong. North Carolina bases their playoffs solely on the MaxPreps ratings.
