Coach, hi. First, thank you for everything you do, genuinely. Second, we know you opened this at 11:30 at night after getting home late from practice and reviewing film or practice note and you have exactly four minutes. So here is the four minute version.
We built this site partly for fans, partly for parents, partly for athletes, and honestly a bunch for you. But you never asked what the pages do. You just showed up, did the job, and left. So we are going to tell you, briefly, which ones actually earn their keep for a coach.
Grouped by the question you are probably asking.
"How good are we, really?"
Teams. Standings for your sport. Record, run differential for baseball and softball, a power rating, and rivals ranked above and below you. Start here. Three minutes, done.
Power Index. A season strength ranking that goes beyond record. It accounts for who you played. So if you are 4 and 5 but you faced five teams who are each top ten, this page clears that up for you fast.
The 207. Our cross sport composite ranking of every high school in the state. Fun for school pride. Useful for the booster club. Occasionally infuriating.
T&F Team Standings, Program Rankings, and Class Rankings. Three angles on how deep your program actually is. Team Standings uses meet results and team scores. Program Rankings weighs total athlete volume, PR count, and event coverage. Class Rankings narrows the field to schools your size.
"Yeah, but who did we actually play?"
Every coach in Maine has had the same conversation. You are 7 and 5. Somebody at the rival school is 11 and 2. You look at their schedule and you go, hang on a second. That is exactly what DSI is for.
DSI, the Depth of Schedule Index. Our proprietary schedule difficulty metric. Zero percent of it is about your record. The only question DSI is trying to answer is whether you played anybody, or whether your AD booked a season of sunshine and rainbows.
Most schedule metrics look at one number. Opponent win percentage. That is the appetizer. DSI goes nine layers deep. The ones that move the dial the most:
Opponent win percentage. The basics. Who did your opponents actually beat?
Opponent's opponent win percentage. One layer back. Who did the teams you played play?
Opponent power rating, pulled live from our Power Index. Two teams can have identical 10 and 5 records and be wildly different on paper. DSI knows.
Recency weighting. The team that beat you in March is not the same team in May. Your late season schedule gets weighted differently than opening week.
Elite game percentage. How many of your games were against real contenders versus easy dates?
We weigh all of it with a proprietary formula and hand you one number from 0 to 100. A DSI in the 80s means you played the meat grinder. A DSI in the 30s means the schedule did you a lot of favors. The page also grades you with a letter so you do not have to do the math in your head.
The line that matters. A winless team with a brutal schedule earns a higher DSI than an undefeated team that scheduled nobody. Say that at the next booster meeting and watch the room react.
You can filter the DSI page by gender, class, and region. Scroll down and you will find the Top 3 podium, our quiet way of applauding the programs that actually booked the hard schedule. Gold, silver, bronze. It is a little absurd. We think they earned it.
Best use case. Start of season scheduling meetings with your AD. End of season tournament seeding arguments. Any conversation where somebody brings up record without context. Pull up DSI. Let the nine layers do the talking.
"Are we trending the right way?"
Heal Points. For baseball and softball this is the MPA tournament seeding math, spelled out in plain English and updated nightly. If you have ever tried to pencil out the PI calculation on a napkin in the dugout, this page is your new best friend.
Progression. Multi season mark timeline for your athletes in track and field. Perfect for the conversation where a senior asks why they are not being pushed harder. Spoiler, they are improving, and now you can show them, not tell them.
Under the Radar. Flags track and field athletes who have posted big marks with a small number of meets. This one is for the scout in you. A rival just had a freshman drop a surprise 1500 last Saturday? This page caught it before you did.
"Can we trust these predictions?"
Report Card. This is the one we are most proud of. It shows exactly how accurate our projections have been for your sport this season. Calibration, spread error, the works. We do not hide the misses. We publish them.
Road Trip. Miles, bus hours, diesel, win rate on the road for every school. If your AD ever asks why you want a Friday home date instead of a Tuesday away, this page is your receipt.
That's it. Go coach.
Everything refreshes nightly, and the sport switcher in the top left is the only knob you need to learn. Bookmark the Teams page for your sport. That is home base. Everything else is three clicks away.
If something is broken, missing, or flat out wrong, email us. Coaches are the best quality control we have. You see things we never will.
Good luck this season. Keep an eye on the snow dates. And please do not let the booster club use the Power Index to argue for a new practice jersey budget. We all know better.