You have to look at the team's ability to score points if ALL teams were there. One team may have a kid that wins the TOC, which happened to be a weight class that didn't have 7 other kids from across the state in it, that could all beat your kid. I think Chief puts a lot more effort into it than he is getting credit for. See what I am trying to say? Just using TOC as an example. And you see it all the time, you look at the results of your kid's weight class at the Joe Blow Invitational, and say "I could have walked thru that bracket". Might be true, but the AC rankings are based on everyone being there. Until we have Grand State, this is the best we can do is speculate.

As far as your comment on finishing even after being beat in the semis, I don't believe that option was available.....

If you go back to one of Chief's old posts from way back when, he pretty clearly explained how his All Class ranking system worked, but my above explanation is the short version.