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The big difference to this year from last year is that now you cannot leap frog past anybody in your conference simply based on adjusted maxpreps rankings....last year you had the automatic bids from each conference (usually 1st & 2nd....occasionally just 1st, or 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, depending on how many teams in)....and then wild cards among all 3rd place, all 4th place, and maybe a 5th place team or two....now it's possible for one league to get 7 or 8 in while another league may only get 2 or 3....If league A's final conference finishers' ranking is 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35.....and league B's teams are 40, 47, 55, 65, 78, 89, 104.....then both team's 1st & 2nd place teams automatically get in....but every team in league A will get in before any wild cards get in from league B....another caveat to look out for....let's say there's a league C here whose 1st-7th place's teams rankings go 17, 23, 67, 52, 58, 89....then that 3rd place team with a 67 ranking is probably going to get left out....as will everybody else in that league below themAre there any new playoff seeding procedures for 2019?
If I'm not mistaken haven't they made a change in seeding protocol for this year? In football/basketball they were seeding all #1 seeds first (highest Maxpreps to lowest). No 2 seed would be allowed to jump a 1 seed even if their overall ranking were higher. But starting with the 2 seeds they would seed based on Maxpreps and allow 3 seeds to enter the equation. For example, let's say the very best 2 seed gets placed in the bracket order. At that point the 3 seed from their conference would be lumped in with the remaining 2 seeds. If the 3 seed from that same conference is ranked higher on Maxpreps than some of the 2 seeds, then the 3 seed would be seeded earlier than the weaker 2 seeds.What matters when it's time to seed the brackets (and i'm working on projections....will publish a draft of them in a week or two for 1A & 2A) is conference finish....remember all automatic bid conference champions get seeded first...then all auto bid conference #2s....then the few auto bid #3s...then all wild cards....and in every tier, the final adjusted maxpreps ranking will seed them...some teams are very close and could change between the next to last and last ranking...the toughest part, especially with the final rankings a mystery, is trying to figure out exactly which 64 teams are in the playoffs....because that will determine where the East/West cut line is...teams like North Davidson, Central Davidson, Oak Grove, Walkertown, Ledford, Randleman, Providence Grove, etc. could go either way, depending on who gets in, and that could totally skew the projections....a team could be licking their chops thinking they're getting such and such opponent in the first round (or beyond), then one thing changes, then you go from a cake walk bracket to murderer's row....or vice versa...and it could be because you won (or lost) a game that causes this change.....or it could be because of a game 500 miles away...even in a different classification if a split conference comes into play
I could be wrong but I believe that's more for who qualifies for the playoffs and not where they are seeded....I think all 1s still go at the top, then 2s, then 3s (not many of them), then wild cards....I tried to give a summary explanation of this situation two posts ago where a team could be third in their conference and still miss the playoffs, while another team could be 7th and make it, depending on their ranking....while another could be 4th, with a high ranking, but get left out if the 3rd place team in their league does not make itIf I'm not mistaken haven't they made a change in seeding protocol for this year? In football/basketball they were seeding all #1 seeds first (highest Maxpreps to lowest). No 2 seed would be allowed to jump a 1 seed even if their overall ranking were higher. But starting with the 2 seeds they would seed based on Maxpreps and allow 3 seeds to enter the equation. For example, let's say the very best 2 seed gets placed in the bracket order. At that point the 3 seed from their conference would be lumped in with the remaining 2 seeds. If the 3 seed from that same conference is ranked higher on Maxpreps than some of the 2 seeds, then the 3 seed would be seeded earlier than the weaker 2 seeds.