2019-2020 Missouri Boys High School Basketball

Some people might think this is April Fools Day and this final posting for the Missouri Boys Class Two basketball ratings are a joke.  Go ahead and laugh.  I spent a lot of time rehashing the season results and it is not too far off the MOBCA ratings but there are some fine differences in the middle of the top ten.  I will let you figure it out.  Check out all the ratings at Missouri Sports at: https://mosports.rivals.com/news/2019-2020-boys-pre-season-basketball-poll-release-11-26-  Bill Gunn's Missouri Sports Here's my top  ten analysis with all of the class two schools below that: Class Two Boys Missouri Basketball 4/1/2020 Rank Team Wins and losses District Rating 1 Hartville                                 (30-2) Dora, Greenwood, Strafford, FairGr...

You have probably heard of the Mark Twain saying, "Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics"?  I think he stole the line from Disraeli but that doesn't matter.  Wrong again, Gramps.  According to my wife, I have been wrong my entire life (just joking, I did get the reason they names Agency, Iowa right one time when we drove through it.  An Indian outpost, or should I say Native American outpost). Anyways, I gushed over Dora in my Class One post the other day and the only thing that Dora fans (and coaches) could find was fault in my reasoning why South Iron actually had a better rating for their season without weighting their loss to eventual state champion Dora.  I said the schedule might have been tougher for South Iron and, of course, we all know that Dora went out and played some tough teams from Illinois, Mississippi and Oklahoma.  That schedule made them pretty darn tough down the stretch.  Coach Luna responded to my tweet with the teams they beat so I we...