(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 fashion that makes integrating their results with the state's largest organization feasible.

   (3) Schools were assigned to classes AAA 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 previously used the enrollment cutoffs corresponding with the NYSPHSAA boys basketball tournaments. In a nod to a disparity between their cutoff numbers, we have converted to using the cutoffs for the respective sexes, with the boys numbers also used for the overall standings.

   Boys Class AAA, 1084-up, Class AA, 661-1083; Class A, 376-660; Class B, 217-375; Class C, 120-216; Class D, 119-under.

   Girls Class AAA, 1090-up, Class AA, 666-1089; Class A, 378-665; Class B, 229-377; Class C, 126-228; Class D, 125-under.

   (4) Points were assigned based upon results from NYSPHSAA championship events, 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 scoring could be compiled (for example, track and field) were assigned one-third the points value. The rationale is that coaches would have changed strategy had true team championships been at stake. In track, for instance, pentathletes could have been entered in multiple individual events or relays rather in order to maximize results.

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

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   (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.

   (6) 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, otherwise sharing points. Losers were awarded 2.5 points (the same as a losing NYSPHSAA quarterfinalist).

   (7) Consolidated teams (for example, Pittsford in boys and girls swimming) had their points divided equally among participating schools.

   (8) Changes to the Division 2 hockey tournament in 2015 and football in 2019 -- the addition of one sectional runner-up per year in order to create an eight-team bracket -- brought about a new rule requiring the at-large team to win a state tournament game in order to earn points in the Kerr Cup.