A Confession
While you were out there logging miles on wooded trails, dodging roots and questioning your life choices at mile 2.8, we were inside. Staring at spreadsheets. Building something that, frankly, nobody in Maine asked for but everyone is going to want.
We built an entire cross country analytics platform. From scratch. With 27 pages, over 17,000 race results, nearly 5,000 runners, and more metrics than your Garmin watch knows what to do with.
Welcome to Analytics207 Cross Country. Launching Fall 2026. And yes, we are fully aware that we have a problem.
The Runner Stuff
Let us start with the basics. We have every runner in Maine in our database. Every PR, every race, every meet. You can look up any athlete, see their full race history, track their season progression meet by meet, and compare them head to head against any other runner in the state.
The PR Board shows you exactly where each runner hit their personal best, which meet, which course, which date. The Leaderboards rank every runner by fastest time. And My Runner gives you a complete athlete profile with every metric we track, because your kid deserves their own stats page.
But here is where it gets fun.
Metrics That Sound Made Up (But Absolutely Are Not)
We did not stop at times and places. We built four proprietary metrics that go deeper than any XC platform in New England:
Consistency Score: How reliable is this runner? Do they show up with the same effort every meet, or are they a wildcard who runs a 17:30 one week and a 19:45 the next? Lower score = more consistent. Your coach will love this one.
Improver Index: Who dropped the most time from their first race to their PR? This is the metric that finds the kid who started the season running 22 minutes and finished at 18:30. Those stories matter.
Breakout Score: Did someone have a single race where they absolutely shattered their average? A breakout is a one race performance so far above the norm that it deserves its own spotlight.
Clutch Factor: This is the one we are most proud of. It measures how a runner performs at championship meets versus regular season races. Some runners rise to the occasion. Some do not. The data knows which one you are.
Coach Tools (a.k.a. Why Your Clipboard Is Retired)
We built six tools specifically for coaches, and we are not being modest when we say they will change how you prepare for meets.
The Score Predictor lets you select multiple teams attending the same meet (because real XC meets have 8, 10, 15 teams, not just two) and simulates the outcome. Pick your lineup. Choose a scenario: Predicted Day, PR Day, Average Day, or make custom adjustments. "What if your #4 hits their PR while your #7 has an off day?" Now you know.
Meet Report Card grades your team's performance after every meet. Season Dashboard shows you the full arc of your season in one view. And the Pace Calculator turns race goals into training paces.
All of this for less than the cost of a case of water bottles at a Saturday invitational.
The Fan and Parent Experience
Not a coach? We did not forget about you.
The Race Predictor uses a our algorithm (we built/tested 12 different GameIQs and this one won, with a margin of error of about 73 seconds across 2,500+ runners) to forecast race outcomes before they happen. Think of it as your excuse to sound unreasonably informed at the finish line.
Head to Head lets you compare any two runners in the state, race by race, side by side. Because every rivalry deserves receipts.
Runner of the Week spotlights standout performances. Season Awards hands out data backed superlatives at the end of the year: Most Improved, Most Consistent, Clutch Performer, Breakout Star, and MVP. No more guessing. The numbers do the talking.
Teams, Courses, and Rivalries
Power Rankings score teams using a proprietary formula that weights head to head victories, average placement, and consistency across meets. It is not just about who won the most. It is about who showed up every single week.
Course Records tracks the fastest times ever run at each venue in Maine. Trotting Park, Twin Brook, the Festival of Champions course, you name it. If someone ran a fast 5K there, we have it.
And School Rivalries gives you the full history between any two programs: team scores, individual matchups, pack times, and bragging rights backed by data.
Why We Did This
Cross country is one of the most popular sports in Maine and one of the least covered. There are thousands of kids racing every fall across hundreds of meets, and most of them are lucky to get a line in the local paper. That did not sit right with us.
So we built a platform where every runner, every team, and every race gets the analytics treatment it deserves. Whether you are chasing a sub 17 minute PR, trying to figure out if your #5 runner can close the gap on your #4, or just want to know how your kid stacks up against the field, we have you covered.
We are Analytics207. We built this while you were running. And we cannot wait for you to see it.
Cross Country launches Fall 2026 at xc.analytics207.com. Free accounts available. All Access Pass gets you everything.