I did a virtual meet of the two teams using their average times and X beats W 18-39
https://oh.milesplit.com/virtual-meets/results
How do these virtual meets on Milesplit work? I've never used them. I get my data and info by scouring timing websites and talking to people. Does the virtual meet function strictly go by time or does it adjust the times based on course grades? As E&V pointed out above:
"....remember it is not about the times. Don't let the fast times fool you. It is about head-to-head matchups."
If times are not adjusted for differences in courses, the virtual meet function doesn't have a lot of value. Everyone knows that there are big differences in course difficulty and, as careful as meet directors or those setting up the courses try to be, all courses are not exactly 5,000 meters. Cross country is not a sport about precision when it comes to times and distances. Precision in that regard is what track is about.
Lancermania, as long as you have been around the sport you should know that the courses in NE Ohio, in general, are not as fast a those in much of the rest of the state. Woodridge is in NE Ohio. Woodridge runs its district at Lorain County Community College. LCCC is one of the slower district sites in all of Ohio.
If Milesplit does not make a time adjustment based on course grade, the fact that Woodridge runs in its own invitational meet at Cuyahoga Valley NP, would make their average times practically worthless in a virtual meet function. That is a course that in most years only a handful of the guys break 18 minutes and a handful of girls break 21 minutes. All-time there have only been a few, maybe 3 or 4 guys, that have gone under 17 minutes on that course. Maybe a few girls, or maybe only one, have gone under 20 minutes. I believe that Bridget Franek, an Olympic steeplechaser, has the girls' record at somewhere in the low 19s and Michael Bradjic is somewhere around 16:30. Andrew Jordan of Watkins Memorial and now a Washington Husky, ran around 17:30 on that course as a sophomore. As a junior he won by managing to get a hair under 17 and becoming one of the few to have ever accomplished that feat. Point is, if those CVNP times are considered as they are, and not adjusted for course grade, they will skew the virtual meet enough to make it worthless.
Also, Lancer, Woodridge has already proven this season that it can run with the big boys and beat them by winning the large school divisions at both Centerville Friday Night Lights and the Medina XC Festival. If they had run the large school division at the Boardman Invite they probably would have won that as well.
Unless St. X and Woodridge actually line up against one another, we really don't know what would happen. Anything else, a virtual meet or whatever, is just speculation.