WOW. I am amazed at the nasty words & tone directed at Chief. I think that he might be underpaid for this ranking job that he does. Is ANY ranking list perfect? So why get so personal? I think those nasty words are petty & ridiculous!! Last Feb my kid won an easy tourney & dropped from 5th to 6th in the rankings. I thought 'weird. oh well. someone must have had a big upset'. Next week, my boy won another easy tourney & dropped off of Chief's rankings. I thought "weird, somebody must have had a big upset yet again". I never thought "I guess Chief doesn't like me or my kids' school anymore. I need to publicly blast someone to make myself feel better". Since this is my 7th post, obviously I don't get out much. Maybe everyone is just playing and Chief is playing along too. Otherwise, I am STUNNED that adults make such nasty attacks on another adult over "just another fuzzy ranking system". He does the best that he can & I have always thought that they were very well thought out.
But the reality is that Chief's rankings do not have ANY factual meaning on future outcomes. Chief's rankings will mean EVEN LESS than that come 2/23.
Get over yourself!!
Once again, Chief is fine, don't worry about him, no need to defend him, Hakuna Matata. Chief gets plenty of affirmation like I said and the comments on his rankings aren't nasty. It's not like he is getting lambasted. He is just "earning his pay", he is "getting his just dues", he is "being taken to task", he is getting "what he deserves". If you are going to stand in judgement so to speak, you better be prepared for the consequences. If you are going to publish rankings, you better be prepared to face question and contradiction. Chief obviously gets a lot out of it and enjoys it or he wouldn't do it. But thanks for sticking up for him because he is a great guy that is doing a great job.
And I am not the least bit concerned about "adults" making nasty attacks on other adults as long as we are able to "face our accusers" so to speak, in other words leave your name. Anybody that posts on the forum should be prepared for what they get in return. I certainly am. But I am concerned when someone makes a nasty or derogatory comment about a kid. That is not acceptable and should never happen, not even if you leave your name.
And I don't know about the "factual meaning thing". But there is definitely a correlation between the rankings and the outcomes. There is a reason why the kids are ranked where they are. Chief's rankings won't mean "even less" in the end, they will mean just as much. But all of his rankings obviously won't be validated because nothing is perfect, not even Chief. The laws of physics and probability wouldn't allow that.
