The Game of Expectations: Who is Meeting? Who is Isn’t?
Here we are at the midpoint of the season and it’s time to do a quick check-up to see who is meeting expectations, above them, below, etc. Five categories is where the teams were put, how is your team doing?
We start with Class AAAA. The process is the following: I open up Minnesota-Scores to the standings, I open up and look at my preseason predictions from August in the Breakdown book, file the teams into the deserved category.
There are some that were preseason ranked that aren’t ranked anymore that we still put as expected because the year is still going pretty good in most ways (like JM, CDH, Woodbury).
Much better than expected
- Coon Rapids (8-7)
- New Prague (15-2)
- Owatonna (11-3)
- Rogers (13-3)
- Wayzata (15-0)
Better than expected
- Anoka (5-9)
- Blaine (11-5)
- Farmington (7-8)
- Minneapolis Washburn (11-6)
- Park Center (11-4)
- Prior Lake (9-5)
- Roseville (5-12)
As predicted/expected
- Apple Valley (14-2)
- Bloomington Jefferson (12-2)
- Buffalo (3-12)
- Cambridge-Isanti (4-13)
- Centennial (7-9)
- Champlin Park (15-0)
- Chanhassen (6-1)
- Cretin-Derham Hall (12-4)
- Duluth East (10-8)
- Eagan (4-11)
- East Ridge (11-5)
- Edina (9-6)
- Forest Lake (10-6)
- Hastings (7-9)
- Henry Sibley (2-14)
- Irondale (5-11)
- Lakeville North (14-1)
- Maple Grove (13-1)
- Minneapolis Southwest (5-11)
- Minnetonka (7-8)
- Moorhead (3-13)
- North St. Paul (11-4)
- Osseo (11-5)
- Robbinsdale Armstrong (10-5)
- Rochester JM (11-3)
- Rochester Century (1-12)
- Cloud Tech (13-3)
- Francis (8-8)
- STMA (7-7)
- Tartan (16-1)
- White Bear Lake (3-13)
- Woodbury (12-4)
Lower than expected
- Andover (6-10)
- Brainerd (5-10)
- Burnsville (5-11)
- Chaska (10-5)
- Eastview (8-8)
- Eden Prairie (10-6)
- Elk River (8-7)
- Minneapolis South (4-14)
- Park of CG (5-9)
- Robbinsdale Cooper (7-5)
- Rosemount (8-8)
- Rochester Mayo (3-11)
- Louis Park (7-8)
- Paul Central (8-9)
- Spring Lake Park (3-12)
Much lower than expected
- Hopkins (12-5)
- Lakeville South (7-9)
- Mounds View (5-9)
- Shakopee (2-13)
- Stillwater (3-14)