2024-25 Big Eight Baseball Ratings
The latest rankings for Wisconsin’s Big Eight high school baseball conference, calculated using our CHEsS system.
About the ratings
🔃 April 18th, 10:21 AM: All ratings have been updated based on recent games.
After careful consideration, we’ve decided not to post game forecasts/odds for the following reasons: 1) The baseball schedule is wildly inconsistent and much harder to manually keep track of than football or hockey (thanks rain), and 2) for whatever reason, the WIAA fails to keep their site updated in a timely and accurate with game results, making it much more time-consuming just to update the ratings, much less forecasts. This is obviously half of what makes the model interesting, but the ratings are still somewhat helpful on their own, and except for rare cases where the home field advantage is enough to compensate, the team with the higher rating is favored to win.
Playoff games are treated as normal games in the model, so the further a team goes in the playoffs, the higher their rating can go. (The conventional wisdom here is that the further you make it in the bracket, the better you are anyways)