Team Rankings, Records, and Stats
The CincyBowling Team Rating (CBTR) is a season-long measurement of team quality built from verified results and scoring data. Beginning with the 2026/27 season, CBTR gives the greatest weight to how well a team actually bowls while also accounting for who it beats, how difficult its schedule is, its win percentage, recent form, tournament results and postseason performance.
How the Team Rankings Work
Beginning with the 2026/27 season, the CB Team Rating uses seven components. Each component is scored on the same 0–100 scale, then combined using the weights below. Boys teams are compared with the complete Boys field and Girls teams are compared with the complete Girls field. Division, region, athletic district and conference provide additional ranking views without changing a team's underlying CBTR.
Measures how well a team actually bowls. Traditional and Baker scoring are converted to a common match format and compared statewide within the same gender so teams using different schedules can still be evaluated fairly.
Measures what a team actually did against the opponents it faced. Wins over strong teams receive more credit, losses to strong teams are treated differently from losses to weak teams, and a team's best distinct wins add signature-win value.
Measures the quality of the opponents on a team's verified schedule, regardless of whether those games were wins or losses. This answers who did you play?, while Opponent-Adjusted Results answers what did you do against them?
Rewards the team's verified season record. Official win percentage is used when available, with verified calculated results serving as the fallback when needed.
Rewards verified regular-season tournament finishes using placement relative to field size. A first-place finish receives the maximum event score, and placement is scaled across the size of the field.
Measures the team's five most recent verified results so current form matters without overwhelming the full-season résumé.
Rewards verified Sectional, District and State performance. Advancement matters: District performance is worth more than ending at Sectionals, and State performance carries the greatest postseason value.
The 2026/27 CBTR Formula
When all seven categories are active, the full rating uses the following base weights:
Statistical Strength — 35%
Statistical Strength is the largest part of CBTR because the ranking should first reflect how well a team actually bowls. CincyBowling standardizes scoring to a common match format of two traditional team games and four Baker games.
The standardized score is then evaluated against the statewide field of the same gender. This allows a team that normally bowls two Bakers to be compared fairly with a team whose local schedule uses four or six Bakers.
Opponent-Adjusted Results — 25%
Opponent-Adjusted Results is designed to make who a team beat matter. Two teams can play similarly difficult schedules and finish with similar records, but the team that actually defeats stronger opponents should receive more credit.
Every verified win, tie and loss is evaluated using the quality of the opponent. A win over a strong opponent is more valuable than a win over a weak opponent, while a loss to an elite team is less damaging than a loss to a weak team.
The quality of the three best distinct teams defeated adds extra résumé value. Using distinct opponents prevents repeated wins over the same school from dominating this part of the rating.
Opponent quality is built from the opponent's own scoring strength and win percentage rather than from its final CBTR. This keeps the calculation from simply feeding the final ranking back into itself.
Strength of Schedule — 15%
Strength of Schedule answers a different question from Opponent-Adjusted Results: How difficult was the schedule you played?
It uses the quality of every verified opponent on the schedule whether the result was a win, loss or tie. A team can therefore receive a strong schedule score even if it did not win all of those difficult matches. Opponent-Adjusted Results separately measures whether the team converted those opportunities into meaningful results.
Win Percentage — 10%
Winning still matters. The Win Percentage component uses the team's verified overall season record. Official source records are preferred whenever they are available so a multi-team event or source-specific record format does not accidentally distort the team's published win percentage.
Tournament Performance — 5%
Tournament Performance uses verified regular-season tournament placement and field size. Finishing first produces the maximum event score, while every other finish is scaled by where that team placed within the complete verified field.
This allows a strong finish in a large event to carry appropriate value without letting the tournament category overwhelm season-long match performance.
Recent Performance — 5%
Recent Performance uses the five most recent verified, publishable, non-forfeit results. Wins receive full result credit, ties receive half credit and losses receive no result credit. Keeping this category at 5% allows hot or cold stretches to matter without erasing the larger body of work from the season.
Postseason — 5%
Postseason value increases with advancement. Placement is evaluated within the verified field, but the postseason level establishes the scoring range so advancing farther is always worth more than failing to reach the next level.
Sectional placement establishes the first postseason score.
District qualification and placement carry a higher value.
State qualification and placement carry the highest value.
A State qualifier receives more postseason value than a team whose season ended at District, and a District qualifier receives more postseason value than a team whose season ended at Sectionals.
What happens before tournaments or postseason begin?
Teams are not penalized for a category that has not happened yet. Tournament Performance and Postseason are activated separately for Boys and Girls when verified results for that category first exist.
Until a category becomes active, its weight is removed and the categories that are active are proportionally reweighted so CBTR remains a true 0–100 rating.
In that example, the five active categories total 90 base points. Their weights are scaled proportionally to fill the 100-point CBTR. When verified tournament results begin, Tournament Performance becomes active and the active base weight becomes 95. When postseason begins, Postseason becomes active and the full 100-point weighting is used.
Once a category is active, a team whose verified result in that category has not yet been recorded receives a neutral value rather than a zero. This prevents source timing or an event that has not yet reached that particular team from creating an artificial penalty.
Example Team
Assume all seven categories are active for a fictional Boys team called Riverside High School.
What does “Overall” mean?
Overall means every ranked team of the same gender. Division I and Division II teams can rank directly against one another because division is a postseason classification, not an automatic statement of team quality.
What happens when I use a filter?
Filters provide additional ranking context without changing the team's underlying CBTR. A team can therefore be #1 in its division, region, district or conference while still retaining its statewide overall position.
Why historical rankings do not change
CBTR methodology is versioned by season. Rankings from 2025/26 remain tied to the methodology used when those rankings were published. They are not recalculated using the newer 2026/27 formula.
This preserves the historical record. Looking back at a completed season should show the rankings that actually existed for that season, not a later reinterpretation using a different ranking model.
Verified team rankings and statistics will appear here.