Each team page and each day’s scores also list the school’s junior varsity games, in a section of their own. They come from MaxPreps’ JV schedules (the same feed as varsity, for the JV season), read with the rest of the update: today 546 games for 96 of the 102 schools, 362 with a score. A school with no JV games on MaxPreps may not field a JV team, or may not have entered its schedule.
JV games are kept apart from varsity: no varsity standings table, record, leader board, rating or postseason picture on this site reads them. They have tables of their own, on the JV page, which also lists each league’s latest JV results, its next JV games and every school’s JV team, and links each league’s whole JV season by date. MaxPreps’ JV league flags are unreliable and no league publishes a JV schedule or JV standings during the season, but every league plays its JV games alongside its varsity fixtures, so a JV game counts for a JV table when its varsity counterpart (the same two schools within three days) counts for that division’s varsity table, or when it matches a fixture on the league’s official schedule that no varsity contest matched. A JV game between two schools of one division with no varsity counterpart is not counted and is named under its table (today 20 games).
A JV table is ordered on points (3 a win, 1 a tie, as SCVAL orders its own JV tables); no league publishes a JV tiebreak, so teams level on points share a place. Coaches enter far fewer JV scores than varsity ones, so a table ranks its teams only once 60% of its division’s JV league games played so far have a score; today that is De Anza JV, El Camino JV, PCAL JV, MCAL JV, EAL JV, Sunset JV, City Western JV, Avocado JV, Metro South Bay JV and LA JV. The others say how many of their games have a score, and list their teams unranked until a game is played.
MaxPreps comes first, as for varsity. Each school’s JV page on High School on SI (si.com) supplements it, matched only by si.com’s own JV team ids and only for a game between two of these schools on the same date or a day either side: si.com’s final score fills a score MaxPreps has not reported (marked †; today 17 games) and adds a game MaxPreps does not list at all, when MaxPreps has no JV game between the two schools within two weeks of it (also †; today 30 games). When the two disagree on a score, MaxPreps’ is shown and si.com’s is noted under the game (today 13 games). A game si.com lists twice with two different scores is not used.
Two schools publish their JV results on their own athletics sites, Saint Francis ↗ (opens in a new tab) and St. Ignatius ↗ (opens in a new tab), read by hand once JV league play ended. They are used on the same terms as si.com, after it: today they fill 12 scores, add 3 games and disagree with MaxPreps on 1 score (also †, and noted under the game). Some MaxPreps JV rows are not taken as they stand: 18 rows are left out, most of them a second copy of a game entered against the wrong school of the same name (the boys’ Stuart Hall for Convent & Stuart Hall, another Stevenson or St. Francis) or a game si.com shows was cancelled, and 1 game is moved to the day a school’s schedule says it was played.
PCAL pairs two schools in one schedule slot: Santa Catalina fields varsity only and York fields JV only, so the JV game of every Santa Catalina fixture is York’s. York stands in the PCAL JV table in Santa Catalina’s place, a JV game MaxPreps files under Santa Catalina is shown as York’s, and a York game counts when Santa Catalina’s varsity game of the day does. York has no page of its own here: its JV games and its JV table line are in Santa Catalina’s JV section, each result from York’s side, and its row in the PCAL JV table links there. York is matched on si.com by its own JV team id.
A team page also lists the school’s JV roster, after its varsity roster, where we found one: today 48 schools. The lists come from MaxPreps’ JV roster pages and from the schools’ own athletics sites, which were read by hand; where both have a list, the page shows the one with more JV players and names the other (25 of the lists shown are a school’s own). A player on the school’s varsity roster is not repeated on its JV list, which says how many it leaves out: several MaxPreps JV pages list the whole program.