The Best Crews have been a thing around here for the past few years. They take their cues from USTFCCCA’s event squads and the World Athletics scoring system, combining the two ideas in order to compare Michigan’s teams against events in their common areas.
The goal of this is to help recognize the athletes and coaches that create cultures, history, and traditions in their respective event areas. Think about it like this: Minnesota always has great hockey, basketball hoops are nailed to Indiana barns, Texas churns out football talent, every Iowa boy has cauliflower ear. Where in Michigan does hurdling reign supreme? Is there a town where kids learn to shot put before they can tie their shoes?
2023’s explanation goes through much of it, but two things have changed for this year.
the Boys 200m points have been re-mathed and edited, as previous versions sold short athletes such as Jeremy Dixon and Jake Machiniak when it came to season end rankings.
instead of using a team’s top-four athletes to generate their total for an event, I’m using their top-three. Belleville’s hurdlers are the main reason for this, there’s no way they shouldn’t have been the top D1 squad last year. I feel this will better portray a team’s top athletes.
Here are the figures that show the points for each mark:
Early in the season, I had some optimism that I’d have time to do some writing. Two weeks later, it’s very evident that I was pessimistic regarding how many EQ’s we’d have. So you just get charts and rankings. \
These contain results uploaded to athletic.net by Sunday (4/20) morning.
The Best Crews have been a thing around here for the past few years. They take their cues from USTFCCCA’s event squads and the World Athletics scoring system, combining the two ideas in order to compare Michigan’s teams against events in their common areas.
The goal of this is to help recognize the athletes and coaches that create cultures, history, and traditions in their respective event areas. Think about it like this: Minnesota always has great hockey, basketball hoops are nailed to Indiana barns, Texas churns out football talent, every Iowa boy has cauliflower ear. Where in Michigan does hurdling reign supreme? Is there a town where kids learn to shot put before they can tie their shoes?
2023’s explanation goes through much of it, but two things have changed for this year.
the Boys 200m points have been re-mathed and edited, as previous versions sold short athletes such as Jeremy Dixon and Jake Machiniak when it came to season end rankings.
instead of using a team’s top-four athletes to generate their total for an event, I’m using their top-three. Belleville’s hurdlers are the main reason for this, there’s no way they shouldn’t have been the top D1 squad last year. I feel this will better portray a team’s top athletes.
Here are the figures that show the points for each mark:
The Best Crews have been a thing around here for the past few years. They take their cues from USTFCCCA’s event squads and the World Athletics scoring system, combining the two ideas in order to compare Michigan’s teams against events in their common areas.
The goal of this is to help recognize the athletes and coaches that create cultures, history, and traditions in their respective event areas. Think about it like this: Minnesota always has great hockey, basketball hoops are nailed to Indiana barns, Texas churns out football talent, every Iowa boy has cauliflower ear. Where in Michigan does hurdling reign supreme? Is there a town where kids learn to shot put before they can tie their shoes?
2023’s explanation goes through much of it, but two things have changed for this year.
the Boys 200m points have been re-mathed and edited, as previous versions sold short athletes such as Jeremy Dixon and Jake Machiniak when it came to season end rankings.
instead of using a team’s top-four athletes to generate their total for an event, I’m using their top-three. Belleville’s hurdlers are the main reason for this, there’s no way they shouldn’t have been the top D1 squad last year. I feel this will better portray a team’s top athletes.
Here are the figures that show the points for each mark:
To acquire points for your team, an athlete has to hit a regional qualifier in their event. As there are no regional qualifiers for relays (every team gets an entry), I had to make an estimation of what a regional qualifying mark might be. These are done on a ratio of the SQ/EQ marks for each individual and relay of that distance. On average, the relay qualifying time is around 4.1x the individual qualifying time (for example, the girls D1 200m EQ is 25.4, the 4×2 is 1:44.5). Anyhow, this is what I came up with for the relay times needed to obtain points here:
Estimated RQ
D1 Girls
D2 Girls
D3 Girls
D4 Girls
4x100m
52.25
54.05
55.25
56.75
4x200m
1:52.0
1:54.1
1:58.0
2:00.7
4x400m
4:21.3
4:32.1
4:42.3
4:50.7
4x800m
10:14.7
10:50.5
11:25.0
11:44.0
Estimated RQ
D1 Boys
D2 Boys
D3 Boys
D4 Boys
4x100m
44.75
45.8
46.9
48.25
4x200m
1:34.0
1:36.0
1:37.3
1:40.9
4x400m
3:35.4
3:41.8
3:43.9
3:55.0
4x800m
8:28.0
8:38.0
9:01.1
9:26.3
These contain results uploaded to athletic.net by Monday (4/14) evening. To keep things consistent, all times listed are FAT. Hand timing really shouldn’t be a thing in 2025, anyway.
Michigan XC Speed Ratings 