The Beginning

The 2017-2018 season started almost a week ago with official practice for the fall season. As it's usually the back end of the two year cycle, not much usually changes. Everyone is hoping for a great season. I've had my football Top 25 countdown out since the beginning of the season, so with that, the rest of this post will just recap the Football Top 25 and I'll explain how I did the preseason rankings afterward.

25 Scranton
24 Wallenpaupack
23 GAR
22 West Scranton
21 Mid Valley
20 Western Wayne
19 Lake-Lehman
18 Hazleton Area
17 Riverside
16 Lackawanna Trail
15 Abington Heights
14 Valley West
13 Meyers
12 Nanticoke
11 Old Forge
10 Berwick
9 Valley View
8 Coughlin
7 Northwest
6 Dunmore
5 Wyoming Area
4 North Pocono
3 Scranton Prep
2 Delaware Valley
1 Lakeland

Now here's how I did the preseason rankings, I did it through a rating system. How I did the system was you got five points for returning your leading rusher, passer, receiver, second leading rusher and the leader in INTs. Then you got five points for every win in the regular season so the most points a team could get is 75 points. Going onward with this, the point system will be like this, you will get five points for every win then points by how much you win. Example, if you win by 14, you get 1.4 points added to your total. You will also receive a extra points if you beat opponent higher than you, 1 for one class higher, 2 for two classes higher, 3 for three classes higher, and so on and so on. So yes, beating a better opponent will benefit you in the rankings.
Now, for the other bit of news, the local college football preview (Penn State, King's Wilkes, and Misericordia) should come out by next week. The NFL Preview should be out after Labor Day Weekend. I will also take questions for fantasy football whenever I can, so don't be afraid to ask questions.

That will do it for the rest of this weekly article, stay tuned for some other stuff throughout the week.