We tracked the combined final season rankings of all the high school teams from 2015-2020, and we came across some surprises.

In the HS Club bracket, it's not a surprise to us that Royal Irish gets the top spot, given that the Indianapolis program has been in just about every final in the last six years. That Danville was a close second is also expected, and Back Bay did well to be #3.

But what did surprise us was how few teams actually made the rankings all six years. Only ten programs accomplished that feat, which was much more common in single-school division. Why? Well it's likely because club teams have to work a lot harder to recruit and maintain coaching and funding. As a result, every now and then, they hit a rough patch. Or, often they merge with another club or change status somehow.

As a result, several of those teams that made this top 50 only made the rankings in two of the six years we're talking about. 

Our tiebreakers for the points system (a system that awards points for each ranking place, plus an extra point for every year ranked) starts with which team had the highest single-year ranking. We actually had to go to seconday tiebreakers (which team had the best second-highest ranking) for one of these.

(Note: we had a slight data collection mishap that unfortunately had a direct effect on some of the rankings. Our fault, we had problems with one of the years, and have since fixed it.)

Goff Rugby Report Combined HS Cub Ranking 2015-2020
Rank	HS Club Team	Ranking Score
1	Royal Irish (Ind.)	358
2	Danville Oaks (Calif.)	354
3	Back Bay (Calif.)	344
4	Woodlands (Texas)	304
5	West Valley Warriors (Utah)	303
6	United (Utah)	302
7	Fort Hunt (Va.)	296
8	Granite Bay (Calif.)	283
9	Kansas City Jr. Blues (Mo.)	281
10	Red Mountain (Ariz.)	219
11	Doylestown (Pa.)	207
12	Belmont Shore (Calif.)	205
13	South Greenville (SC)	196
14	Charlotte Tigers (NC)	189
15	San Diego Mustangs (Calif.)	186
16	Liberty (Wash.)	183
17	Coastal Dragons (Calif.)	180
18	SFGG (Calif.)	172
19	Eastside (Wash.)	168
20	Genesis (Utah)	167
21	Phoenix Alpharetta (Ga.)	147
22	Bayou Hurricanes (La.)	147
23	Peninsula Green (Calif.)	145
24	West End (Va.)	144
25	Aspetuck (Conn.)	140
Goff Rugby Report Combined HS Club Ranking 2015-2020
Rank	HS Club Team	Ranking Score
26	Raleigh Redhawks (NC)	139
27	Katy (Texas)	139
28	Chargers (Wisc.)	139
29	CK McClatchy (Calif.)	128
30	Orlando (Fla.)	123
31	Santa Monica (Calif.)	122
32	Tacoma (Wash.)	122
33	Lamorinda (Calif.)	115
34	Harpeth (Tenn.)	111
35	West Shore United (Pa.)	105
36	Union Co. (NJ)	104
37	Quins Colts (Texas)	101
38	Beaverton (OR)	101
39	Rock Rugby (Texas)	101
40	Eastside Tsunami (Ore.)	100
41	Jupiter (Fla.)	94
42	Germantown (Tenn.)	91
43	Jacksonville (Fla.)	89
44	West Jordan (Utah)	89
45	Clayton (NC)	88
46	PAC (Colo.)	83
47	Pulaski (Wisc.)	83
48	Allen (Texas)	81
49	Maryland Exiles (Md.)	77
50	Tempe (Ariz.)	76
Goff Rugby Report Combined HS Club Ranking 2015-2020