Telegraph Staff Writer
Union County High School has the top RPI in Region 3 of Class 1A, while Bradford and Keystone Heights are each fifth in their respective regions after the release of the Florida High School Athletic Association’s latest rankings.
The teams with the top six RPI rankings in each region at the end of the regular season will advance to the playoffs.
Three equations are added together to determine a team’s RPI: its winning percentage multiplied by 0.35, opponent’s winning percentage multiplied by 0.35, and opponent’s opponent’s winning percentage multiplied by 0.3.
Margin of victory/loss isn’t a factor.
Union was the number-one team in Region 3-1A when the first RPI rankings were released on Sept. 22 and have stayed on top with the latest updated results. The Tigers have an RPI of 0.672, with the next five teams in the region being Hilliard (0.671), Chiefland (0.657), Fort White (0.573), Lafayette (0.567) and Branford (0.553).
The Tigers have the fourth-best RPI in all of Class 1A, which consists of 37 teams.
Bradford was ranked sixth in Region 4-1A when the RPI numbers were first released, but the Tornadoes have since moved up to fifth with an RPI of 0.526. The Tornadoes are ahead of Bronson (0.504) and trail Hawthorne (0.681), Wildwood (0.657), Pahokee (0.571) and Newberry (0.564).
The Tornadoes have the 19th-best RPI in all of Class 1A.
Keystone dropped from fourth to fifth in Region 2-4A. The Indians have an RPI of 0.623 and trail Cocoa (0.765), The Villages (0.706), South Sumter (0.651) and Hernando (0.0.628).
The sixth-ranked team in the Indians’ region is Umatilla (0.415).
Keystone’s RPI is 13th in all of Class 4A, which has 42 teams.
