Every meet, somewhere in the bleachers, somebody is saying, "No way, she is definitely faster than him." Somebody else is saying, "Our school beats their school across the board, no question." Nobody has receipts. Everybody is extremely confident.
We fixed that.
Compare Athletes
The athlete compare tool is exactly what it sounds like. Type in two names, any two names, so long as they have competed in Maine recently. You will get their event PRs side by side, a head to head radar chart showing who is ahead in which events, and a shared event count in case you forget that pole vaulters and 3200 runners do not actually compete against each other.
The radar chart is the part people get lost in. It normalizes everyone to Maine's top marks and draws two shapes on top of each other. If one shape eats the other alive, that is your answer. If the shapes overlap like a Venn diagram of identical twins, that is also an answer. A boring one, but an answer.
Best use case. You want to know if your kid's 400 is actually catching up to the kid from the rival school. Yes or no, with receipts.
School vs School
The school vs school matchup tool is the big one. Pick two schools. Pick Boys or Girls. Click run. The site crunches the top athletes from each program across ten anchor events and gives you a scoreboard. Not a vibe. An actual scoreboard. "School A wins 7 of 10 events," with the winning athlete and mark listed in each row, so if anyone asks, you point.
There is a progress bar that fills toward the winning school. It is extremely satisfying. It is also extremely handy when a parent corners you at a pasta dinner and says, "We are obviously better at field events." Great. Let's look.
Best use case. End of season bragging rights. Rivalry weekends. Any dinner where somebody brings up that one meet from 2019.
Two rules of engagement.
Only two.
Screenshot liberally. Send to group chats. Do not get banned from the snack table at districts.
Both tools refresh nightly. So if a kid drops a giant PR on Saturday, Sunday morning the comparison updates. That is a fun text for a parent to wake up to.
Links, so you do not have to go digging.
Compare Athletes → analytics207.com/track-and-field/compare
School vs School → analytics207.com/track-and-field/school-vs-school
Go cook. Go prove somebody wrong. Or, in the rarer case, prove yourself wrong. That one is harder but honestly the most character building.