GRR: Rankings
As we keep saying, these are early days.
Early days mean that one result can make a massive difference, but it also means that some teams that are ranked highly now will drop down even if they don't play any more games. More results, especially against other successful opposition, will force those changes.
Some very, very good teams are drifting down a little bit because they're not playing.
Teams that are in action do get to move up, and we caution those teams that it will be very difficult to stay up unless they keep playing. That's just the way it goes.
We have a new #1 and a new #2 and, yes, part of that has to do with the fact that those teams are playing.
Could we see the Southern California HS clubs claw back up to the top? Sure we could. They will sort themselves out as their school-team league ends and the club league begins.
Same goes for the North Carolina clubs.
It was a quite slow week in HS club rugby, but we will see more games as February progresses.
Not a lot of changes, but Jacksonville and Elsie Allen join the Top 50. We don't see any of the results from the rest of the week enough to change rankings to any significant degree (or at all).
So we'll just wait a bit.
We expected a relatively quiet week because North Carolina had an off week and other leagues haven't started yet, but ...
Bad weather postponed most of the single-school games in Texas and that slowed it all down even more. We're interested in Allen HS and could see them coming up, but we needed to see them play St. Thomas, and that game got frozen out.
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