NCEagle's Blog

I almost don't know where to begin on this subject.  As most of you know, we've had some, er, difficulties over the past week here at OregonPrepSports.net.  We want to apologize to all of you and give you an idea of what happened and perhaps what is in store for us here.

Some of you have been asking when the BCS ratings will be published for this year.  Well, they've finally been updated and posted on the site!

If you click on a link to a sport (using the menu on the left side of the site), you will see two new links displayed.  One is for 2006 Ratings and the other is for Missing Scores.  Here is a brief summary of these new features.

Selecting Missing Scores will bring up a list of games that have been added to the site that were scheduled to have taken place in the past (including the current day's games) that either have no result posted or only the winning team has been posted (no score).  If you have information on these games, we would appreciate any help in posting the results to the site.   If the game has been cancelled or rescheduled, you can visit that school's schedule page and update the date/time or mark the "cancelled" field to indicate that the game will not be played.

Selecting 2006 Ratings will bring up a table that allows you to choose a classification and a rating to use to sort the teams.  A grid will then be displayed that shows a list of teams for that class and various stats and ratings information.  For more information on the computer ratings, I recommend that you visit the FAQ for that rating, which can be found on the ratings page or in the FAQ section of the site.  Please do not reproduce or publish the Colley ratings information without the consent of Mr. Colley himself.

The computer ratings should not be used as a definitive measure of a team's quality.  They are just formulas that try to gauge how well a team has performed when compared to its peers.  A matchup between two teams with a similar rating is likely to be a hard-fought battle, but that may not be the case.  These ratings do not factor in injuries, weather conditions, or any number of factors that may explain a team's past performance.  They are only provided as a guide to indicate which teams appear to be strong, those that appear in the middle, and those that appear to be weaker.

As always, if you have any suggestions for improvements to the site or new features you would like to see added, please let me know.  I am currently working on implementing a drop-down menu system for the site to help with navigation.

I apologize for the slowness of the site and getting pages to load for the last few days.  I finally gave up on my old web hosting provider and moved to a new host.  This was the cause for the site to go down this morning and early afternoon.  All data has been migrated over to the new servers, however, and performance should be greatly improved.

As always, feel free to contact me if you have any questions or suggestions for the site!

You may notice an updated feature to the OregonPrepSports.net site that was implemented this week.  There are Google Map locations for each of the Oregon High Schools which can be accessed from a few different places.  On the main menu, you will see a link to a page that lists several of the categories available (all schools, 6A schools, 5A schools, etc.).

There are also links to the official OSAA maps in a pdf format.  The Google Maps have the ability to "zoom-in" to a detailed street-level view that can assist in finding directions to unfamiliar schools that may be useful given the reclassification that took place this year.

In addition, you will see a link on each team's schedule page which will bring up a Google Map for that school.

Look for some additional groupings to become available this fall (league maps, field locations that are away from the high school, etc.) as well as the addition of schools outside of Oregon.

Starting this year, OregonPrepSports.net will begin publishing polls for the sports that we cover here on this site.  However, our polls will be different than other polls released in Oregon.  Our polls will be fan polls and voting is open to anyone who wishes to submit a ballot!

This year's polls will start with a preseason football poll that will be issued on Thursday, August 31st - in time for the kickoff of the week 0 games.  Voting for these polls has begun!

Polls for all sports have now started.  The links to the poll ballots can be found in the submenus below each sport's main menu link, located on the left-hand menu.  Polls will typically be open for balloting from Saturday through Monday afternoon with the results published late Monday or early Tuesday.