Here are the 2019 Media Pre-season Rankings, and where they ended up. Just one year's example about usually, you have no freggin' idea where it will end up.
Accuracy rate in picking the top 10 teams: 60.19%
CLASS 6
Rank in the 2019 pre-season: and where they ended up in parenthesis.
1. CBC (#3)
2. Rockhurst (#8)
T3. DeSmet (#1)
T3. Rock Bridge (#20)
5. Joplin, (#2)
6. Lee’s Summit North (11)
7. Blue Springs (13)
8. Kirkwood (12)
9. Lee’s Summit West (15)
10. Park Hill (7)
(5 of the pre-season top 10, in the top 10 at the end)
CLASS 5
1. Fort Zumwalt North (2)
2. Carthage (1)
3. Eureka (6)
4. Raytown (7)
5. Vianney (20)
6. Staley, (4)
7. Battle, (10)
8. Fort Osage, (18)
9. Jackson (3)
10. Chaminade, (5)
(8 of the top 10 pre-season teams in the top 10 in the end.)
CLASS 4
1. Ladue (3)
2. Webb City (1)
3. Camdenton, (2)
4. Platte County, (6)
5. MICDS (24)
6. Kearney, (17)
7. St. Mary’s (13)
8. West Plains (7)
9. Lebanon, (8)
10. Smithville (9)
(7 of top 10 pre-season teams in the top 10 in the end)
CLASS 3
1. Trinity (5)
2. Blair Oaks (4)
3. Mt. Vernon (9)
4. Odessa, (1)
5. St. Charles West, (24)
6. Southern Boone, (19)
7. St. Francis Borgia, (16)
8. Cassville, (2)
9. Boonville, (13)
T10. Kennett, (3)
T10. Savannah, (7)
(7 of10 in top 11.)
CLASS 2
1. Lutheran North (1)
2. Cardinal Ritter (4)
3. Maryville (3)
4. Lathrop (2)
5. Lamar, (6)
6. Clark County, (8)
7. Monroe City, (28)
8. Ava, (5)
9. Lawson, (11)
T10. Palmyra, (20)
T10. Versailles, (35)
(7 of 11)
CLASS 1
1. Lincoln (2)
2. Hayti (5)
3. Pierce City (6)
4. Westran (56)
5. Mid Buchanan (3)
6. Valle Catholic (1)
7. Marceline, (12)
8. Adrian, (10)
9. Thayer (4)
10. Hamilton-Penney, (11)
(7 of 10)