(1) The data was compiled by the New York State Sportswriters Association. The NYSSWA Kerr Cup All-Sport Championship is not affiliated with or sanctioned by the New York State Public High School Athletic Association.

   (2) Only NYSPHSAA schools were considered because CHSAA, PSAL and AIS schools do not participate in statewide championships in a system that makes integrating their results with the state's largest organization feasible.

   (3) Schools were assigned to classes AA through D based on BEDS numbers. Single-sex schools BEDS numbers were doubled. Schools that play up or are assigned to a higher class in one or more sports were assigned to the class that reflects actual BEDS data.

   We use the enrollment cutoffs each year that correspond with the NYSPHSAA basketball tournament: Class AA, 910-up; Class A, 480-909; Class B, 280-479; Class C, 170-279; Class D, 169-under.

   (4) Points were assigned based upon results from NYSPHSAA championship tournaments and meets, with scoring based on the first eight places. Losing tournament semifinalists were ranked as being tied for third; losing quarterfinalists were ranked as tied for fifth.

   Sports for which team championships were officially awarded were scored on a 15-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 basis. Sports in which team championships were not awarded but meaningful team scoring could be compiled (for example, track and field) were assigned one-third the points value. The rationale is that in most cases coaches would have substantially changed strategy had true team championships been at stake. In track, for instance, many athletes would have been entered in multiple individual events or relays rather than the pentathlon in order to maximize their results.

   Tennis, gymnastics and boys golf, where the fortunes of a school typically rise and fall with a single state-meet entrant, were not included in the process.

   Outdoor track was the sole exception to the use of NYSPHSAA results. Because of the complex nature of that two-day meet, we began with final Federation results, moving NYSPHSAA members up as necessary based on final team scoring to replace non-NYSPHSAA schools.

   (5) Sports in which the championships only reach the level of a regional championship per NYSPHSAA standards (for example, rifle or girls ice hockey) were not scored. Girls golf became the latest sport to be scored when the NYSPHSAA held its first state championship in 2018.

   There were 15 scoring sports for girls and 16 for boys this year.

   Girls golf joined the scoring this year with the addition of team honors at the annual NYSPHSAA tournament. Bowling expanded to two classes this season.

   In one other change, wrestling was upgraded to a full-scoring sport with the addition of the NYSPHSAA dual-meet tournament ths year. It replaces the team scoring from the state individual tournament as a Kerr Cup component.

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   Long Island's four-class football tournament is the only event in the Kerr Cup All-Sport Championship that is not a NYSPHSAA statewide competition. Champions of the four divisions in Sections 8 and 11 were awarded seven points if they were the only winner in the NYSPHSAA enrollment class, and all losers were awarded 2.5 points (the same as a losing NYSPHSAA quarterfinalist).

   (6) Consolidated teams (for example, Half Hollow Hills East and West in boys swimming or Sachem North and East in bowling) had their points divided equally among participating schools.

   (7) Eastern sections have sometimes received a bye into the semifinals in certain sports despite the fact other sections had to win a play-in just to reach the quarterfinals. Beginning in 2011 Kerr Cup compilations, schools receiving a bye into the semifinals at the same time that there was a quarterfinal play-in game elsewhere in the bracket only received the same point total as a losing quarterfinalist unless they won at least one NYSPHSAA tournament game.

   No teams were affected by the rule this year.

   The rule was amended slightly in 2014 so that teams given a bye into the semifinals fall under the same penalty regardless of whether there was a play-in round if they did not win at least 50 percent of their previous games and failed to win their semifinal.

   No teams were affected by the rule this year.

   (8) A change to the Division 2 hockey tournament in 2015 -- the addition of one sectional runner-up per year in order to create an eight-team bracket -- brought about a new rule requiring the "lucky loser" team to win a state tournament game in order to be awarded points in the Kerr Cup.

   No teams were affected by the rule this year.