Trying to figure you the method that Maxpreps uses for its top 25 poll;
Cathedral Catholic gets blown out by Centennial Corona 42-7 and yet they move up one spot to #5 in the state. Hard to figure. Fyi, Cathedral Catholic hosts DLS in a few weeks.
Maxpreps (really, calpreps.com) didn't move Cathedral Catholic anywhere. Calpreps does not do
rankings. They do
ratings. No, that's not the same thing. Movement on the Calpreps list depends on the result of their own game as well as the results of the games around them.
In the specific case of Cathedral Catholic, the Centennial result doesn't actually impact much. I know that sounds weird, but here's how it works...
Cathedral Catholic's rating is currently 60.6. Corona Centennial's rating is 89.6. In any situation, Calpreps did not expect this game to be within 28 points, which is the cutoff for blowouts. The result was a 35-point loss, so its impact is much lower than if the game had finished at a 21-point deficit, as an example, or if the rating gap between the two teams wasn't greater than 28. Beyond 28, any blowout is the same. Despite the fact that the game was won by 35, the game rating for the Dons was 61.6 (Centennial's rating, minus 28). What made an impact for Cathedral was actually the loss that Mater Dei Catholic (their first opponent and not to be confuse with Mater Dei of Santa Ana) had against Carlsbad.
Teams around them probably had similar expected results and so the fact that the rating only slightly moved, it didn't really impact where they ended up on the rating list.
To further illustrate how the ratings are different than rankings, look at #s 1 and #3. #1 St. John Bosco is rated at 110.7, while #3 Centennial is 89.6. That's a gap of 21.1, but only two places. Now consider a similar rating gap starting with #50. #50 Parish Episcopal (Texas) is rated at 58.6. There are three teams rated 21.1 points lower at 37.5. They are actually #s 267-269, over 200 spots lower.
Ratings and rankings are not the same.
