2023 Strength of Schedule Rankings - Top 50
Which teams have the most difficult regular seaosn schedules?
Last year, we presented the Top 10 Most difficult schedules, but as we were preparing to do the same this year, we realized that we had to reach outside of the Top 20 to pull in any teams not residing in powerhouse districts 11-6A, 21-6A, and 5-6A. So, we decided to present the Top 50.
The rankings below are simply based on the average Elo rating of each team’s opponents. We listed each team’s own Elo rating, for reference, as well as their state rank and their odds to make the playoffs, thinking that would provide for interesting viewing.
Interesting, I figured a 19-6A team would find their way on here; has always felt like such a gauntlet chalked full of relatively "high floor" teams in addition to the powers at the top. Wonder what this exercise would like if you ran it for the ELO of district games only? See which path to the playoffs is the toughest?