This is the final week of HS Club rankings and we really don't have a lot of changes.
Most of the championships that we were waiting for involved school teams, so there's not much to move around.
So we thought we'd take a look at a couple of stats, such as:
In the 19 weeks of rankings we had five different teams ranked #1. Only two teams, Granite Bay and Belmont Shore, dropped out of #1 and returned. The longest streak of being #1 was Woodlands, which held the position for five weeks before being unseated by Okapi. The most weeks total at #1 was Belmont Shore, with six, including the last two.
Overall, Belmont Shore never dropped below #5. Neither did Granite Bay. Meanwhile, it took a while for us to be San Diego believers, in part because they were in the same league as Belmont Shore. Here's a fun graph showing those three teams' journeys to their final rankings. Notice that you want to be lower on the graph (at #1).
There were 16 different teams that earned a Top 10 ranking. That's actually quite low. We had one team that was ranked Top 10 in the beginning but wasn't even in the Top 50 by the end of proceedings. That's actually not that uncommon.
The biggest improver in the rankings was Pendleton, which went from #27 in Week 1 to #8 in the final week. This, of course, doesn't count the 15 teams that went from not being ranked to making the top 50. The biggest movers there were the Kansas City Jr. Blues, who went from no ranking to #17, Brighton, who went to #21, Valor, who topped out at #22, and the Westside Black Swarm, who ended up #25.
