Coaches and athletic directors who have an appetite for adding a wins proponent to the current power rankings system will be starving.

The MIAA Tournament Management Committee voted 11-5 against a motion which would have added a fourth column to the current formula for the present power rankings. A later motion to allow football to have a wins proponent on a two-year trial basis was defeated 12-4.

“I just don’t want to have a knee-jerk reaction to things,” said TMC chairman Shaun Hart, the athletic director at Burlington. “Jim Clark has put a lot of time and effort into the rankings and the data shows it is working.”

One of the biggest advocates of adding a wins proponent is Wellesley athletic director John Brown. Representing District 7, which consists of schools from the Bay State Conference, Hockomock League and Tri-Valley League, Brown was adamant schools within his representation are in favor of putting more emphasis on wins.

“The Bay State Conference had nine state champions and the Hockomock and TVL also had state champs, but all us of still believe (pushing for) a wins proponent is the right thing to do,” Brown said. “We all feel that an adjustment needs to be made.”

Many of those who favor leaving well enough along point to the fact that the tournament’s accuracy rate is over 80 percent. Despite the impressive numbers, the poster child for change is Everett football.

The Crimson Tide won the Greater Boston League football title and finished with a 7-1 record, yet didn’t qualify for the Div. 1 tournament due in large part to the fact that the rest of its league was in Div. 3 and most landed in the bottom third.

Springfield Central was in a similar situation to Everett. The Golden Eagles were 7-1 yet landed a mere No. 7 seed in the Div. 1 tournament due to the fact that they are the only Div. 1 team in Western Mass., thus get penalized for playing in their league.

“We were No. 1 in the rankings after three weeks because we played Xaverian and Central Catholic and we are very appreciative to those schools for playing us.” Springfield Central athletic director Dwayne Early said. “Then we go into our league, win all the games and we drop to seven and have to play a second-round game at Xaverian, a team we beat during the season. We are willing to play anybody, anywhere.”