Yes, that's how it was in volleyball, and there were a bunch of big changes toward the bottom affecting the last few wild card teams in....I'm hoping they'll publish the rankings late Friday night/early Saturday morning but I'm not holding my breath
Same formula yes, but they only publish their rankings to the public once or twice a week....apparently any time a score is entered into maxpreps, their computer refreshes the rankings....so after every score from this Friday gets entered, the NCHSAA can privately request an updated run not published on the maxpreps website, then those updated rankings (which will include this Friday's games) will be used to seed the brackets, which they will make public at some point, but like I said earlier, I'm afraid that we won't see those rankings until the same time we see the preliminary brackets
Also concerned about potential for a brawl leading to multiple ejections and costing a good team a chance....especially if they have a game involving a team with nothing to lose who knows they're not going to the playoffs
Yes, but since they started seeding in the mid to late 1990s, no matter which of the 4 or 5 different ways to approach how they seed, one constant has always been that under no circumstances will a team that was not a conference champion be seeded ahead of a team that is a conference champion...they're just following their own rules....now I would definitely that some of their rules definitely need to be changed, some with a slight tweak and some drastically, but it's not the NCAA Basketball tournament where the committee can rig the brackets to keep UNC & Duke apart until the Final Four or Monday night championship game...now if they went back to predetermined brackets by conference seed like before the mid 1990s they could make sure that the 1 & 2 from same conference dont meet until regional finals but you can't do predetermined brackets with subdivided playoffs and/or so many wild card teams getting in, would hate it myself, but I've seen it happen to my team so many times in so many sports
And I'm not claiming that North Surry is a better team that whoever finishes 2nd in the Southwestern, but the even bigger absolute jokes are some of the split conference division winners that will not only make the playoffs, but get seeded with the tier of 1s...If it plays out the way it's looking, you could have a 1-10 4A team get a 1st Rd bye then host a 2nd Rd game...that's the type of situation I think they will address first in rule tweaks for next year
No, the 2A/2AA split is done before the East/West split....the only way Shelby goes to 2A would be a weird scenario where North Surry went small 2A, AND TW Andrews went small 2A (or gets knocked out of the playoffs), AND West Stokes goes small 2A....for this to happen, you would need at least 3 teams currently not listed as in to make it, candidates including Washington, North Lincoln, North Lenoir, Currituck, but would also need Ashe AND West Iredell to stay in the playoffs....the chance of Shelby going 2A are about the same as South Point going East or Wallace-Rose Hill going West....There is a crazy outside shot of it happening, but I would strongly suggest against betting one stalk of corn on it, let alone the whole farm
Maybe someone should start a thread asking who wants the #2 seed in 2AA West.
Heaven knows there are threads about everything else.
I don't disagree with you that these two, on paper anyway, are the two best teams, but I cannot agree that "the system is broken" when whoever finishes second in the conference won't get seeded ahead of others who won their conference....It seems that people have forgotten that they've been seeding conference champions ahead of 2nd place teams for about 20 years...would have happened last year, the year before, right on back to whichever year in the mid-1990s they got away from the predetermined conference brackets (Conf A #1 vs. Conf C #4, Conf B #2 vs. Conf D #3, etc.) and went to seeding 1-16; only it may not have seemed as magnified with those maxpreps rankings coming out every week with those two great teams trading places at 1 & 2 for 10 weeks, maxpreps has been doing rankings for some time, but we only started to notice a little last year because it was used to break ties for teams in same tier with identical records, this year we've known all year it was the end-all be-all for seeding the playoffs, except for the results on the field in conference play putting all conference champs at the top....
