09/12/23 – Initial RPI Rankings Released for Football, Volleyball, Field Hockey

September 12, 2023 2023-2024 News Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SEPT. 12, 2023

The first official KHSAA Ratings Percentage Index rankings for the 2023 football, volleyball and field hockey seasons have been posted on KHSAA.org.

Initial RPI rankings can be found through the links below:

• Football
• Volleyball
• Field Hockey

RPI Background

RPI is a tool developed for all team sports using the official KHSAA/Riherds Scoreboard data, modeled after, but not identical to, similar measurement tools. It is provided for a variety of reasons, including district tiebreaking and football bracketing, and as a means to increase publicity, interest and promotion of interscholastic athletics. RPI is also used as a tiebreaking/contest-result mechanism to decide seeded district games that are not played by the deadline. RPI rankings are updated on an hourly basis but are not calculated for teams with missing scores from the previous day. Therefore, it is essential for results to remain comprehensive for accuracy.

• RPI calculation steps (including an example using 2018 football data and RPI factors) are detailed at: https://khsaa.org/rpi-calculation-steps/

Statistics and RPI Release

Initial stat leader reports for the sports on the Riherds/KHSAA Scoreboard will be released at the start of week 4 of the regular season, followed by each sport’s initial RPI rankings at the start of week 5.

– KHSAA –

About the Kentucky High School Athletic Association

The Kentucky High School Athletic Association was organized in 1917 and is the agency designated by the Kentucky Department of Education to manage high school athletics in the Commonwealth. The Association is a voluntary nonprofit 501(c)3 organization made up of 290 member schools, both public and non-public. The KHSAA awards 229 state championships to 59 teams and 178 individuals in 13 sports and six sport-activities, funds catastrophic insurance coverage for its more than 109,000 rostered member school student-athletes, provides coaching education and sports safety programs for more than 12,000 coaches and licenses and facilitates the distribution of training material for over 4,000 contest officials.