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How-To · Schools & teams
Read the Team Matrix
Which schools pay their way, which will last, and which carry the others.
What the two scores mean
- Pays its way (0–100) comes from Team Close-out: net per boy against the list price, and the total net after costs.
- Will it last (0–100) comes from the school’s seasons run, its coaches (and whether one is not a parent), returning boys, a parent-coach whose son is about to age out, and its boy count against its own past.
- A school with more than one team sits at the average of its teams, weighted by boys.
- Outside money counts as paid (on by default) counts grants, restricted funds and invoiced schools toward the list price.
Read the groups
- The two lines sit at the middle school across the network. Drag the sliders to move them, or click Reset lines to the middle team.
- Anchor: pays its way and will last. Fragile earner: pays its way, but could fold. Mission site: needs help paying, but will last. At risk: needs help paying and could fold.
- New this fall: no season in the last six, so it is too early to call.
- Click a group box to show only those schools. Who carries whom compares each group’s share of the schools with its share of the money, region by region.
Use the list
- Click a column heading to sort. Click it again to flip the order.
- Click a school to see it on the chart and open its score card.
- Type in Find a school or click a region chip to narrow the list.
Look ahead to next season
- Click Spring 2027 at the top. Every school on Team Journey’s Spring 2027 board is listed.
- Schools that ran this fall keep their fall reading.
- Schools with no fall team have no close-out, so they fall into three groups: Spring-only school, Ran before, not this fall and Not run yet. Their will-it-last comes from their season history only.
- Click Put the … with no close-out on the chart to add them. They sit at the middle pays score with a dashed border. Click again to take them off.
See a school’s reading on Team Journey
- Open the school from Team Journey.
- Open the Team Matrix section under the school’s sections. The closed heading already shows its group and both scores.
- The numbers are the ones the Team Matrix page shows when it opens. A school with no close-out shows the middle pays score, marked median.