Portland High School football

Portland is one of the largest schools in Maine.

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Maine is coming to Hometown Line

You’re in the right place, and the whole site is open to you. We only show scores a state’s association lets us read and credit, and Maine’s aren’t readable yet. Here’s how Portland gets on, and how to play in the meantime.

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Getting Portland on the site

Maine isn’t published yet. The vendor that runs the MPA's site turns visitors from outside the area away.

In the meantime, a coach, athletic director or team manager can put a school’s season on the site through the Team Desk, and the letter below still asks them to publish.

Ask them

Write to Maine Principals' Association or your school's athletic director. Address it to the association’s office or your athletic director — the contact page on their site has it.

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Subject: Schedules and scores for Maine high-school football

Dear Maine Principals' Association,

I am a fan of Portland. I follow the season on Hometown Line (hometownline.com), a free game of skill and prediction for high-school football. There is no money in it: readers predict results and are scored on how well they read the games.

Maine is not on the site yet because the schedules and scores are published in a way that does not allow another site to read them. I am writing to ask that Maine Principals' Association allow Hometown Line to read the schedules and scores it already publishes, or publish them as a feed. The site reads only what it is allowed to, identifies itself, and credits Maine Principals' Association on every game.

Thank you for considering it.

Yours sincerely,
A supporter of Portland

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Portland High School is a public high school established in 1821 in Portland, Maine, United States, which educates grades 9–12. The school is part of the Portland Public Schools district, and is one of three high schools in that district, along with Deering High School and Casco Bay High School.

From the school’s Wikipedia article, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is on record

Wherereal: Maine; A real programme in a real place.
Sizereal: 968 students; From the school's own article. One of the largest schools in its state.
Classificationa label: Class A; How its own state labels that size. Ladders differ between states, so this is for display; the model uses the size band.
Groupingthis site's: Region 1 (ME); This site's grouping, built by region so travel and rivalry look plausible. It is not the state association's alignment and will not match a real bracket.
Mascotreal: Bulldog
Foundedreal: 1821
Typereal: Public secondary
School districtreal: Portland Public Schools; The body that runs the school. Not the grouping above, which is ours.
Rivalsreal: Deering High School South Portland High School Thornton Academy; Named on the school's own article.
Coloursreal: Blue and White

The programme

Rival: Deering High School South Portland High School Thornton Academy; Named in Portland's own article.
Notable alumni: 4 in all, 1 of them in football; Counted from the school’s own article, which lists people notable enough to have been written up. A programme with none has not produced none.

Everything above comes from Portland’s own article — except the few lines that name a different one — and is real. Hometown Line also runs a scoring model over Maine high school football. Every prediction it makes is the model’s own. Where Maine publishes a schedule the site may read, the games ahead are that schedule; where it does not, the fixtures ahead are generated so the model has something to predict. A result is shown only where its source is named.

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