4 and 5 heading to the playoffs
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Depends on how challenging their schedule is in my opinion. Same way 5-4 teams get in
Who cares? Are you afraid to play them in your bracket? Does it really taint your playoff qualification?
If we don’t get 256 teams at 5-4 or above do you suggest we just put byes into brackets?
The same way they have always determined the last teams in... playoff points.... it’s the total wins of all opponents played.... if still a tie they look at wins of opponents you defeated.
This thought process is one more reason to argue for districts. If you are a 6a team and go 4-5 against all 6a teams then you’d have an argument about not being deserving but knowing that the 6-3 team might be 6a and have 3 wins against 3a and 4a teams while the 4-5 team might be 6a with 2 losses against 7a and 8a teams makes the current system flawed. If we are going to have classes for playoffs then you can’t reward or punish teams for having wins or lossses agajnst different levels to qualify or not qualify for the playoffs.
Nightmare: in the first round, a 4-5 5A team in the southern group of 16 going on the road to ESL. "The horror, the horror" !!!!
We need to go back to 6 classes...rosters are shrinking fast...
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Obviously, with three weeks to go in the season, the number of 5-4 teams that will be eligible for the playoffs is a complete unknown.
What is known are these two things:
1) Last year, 18 teams with 5-4 records did not make the field of 256.
2) Last year, 12 teams in the East Suburban Catholic Conference (5 total) and Chicago Catholic League (7 total) qualified for the playoffs.
3) Going into Week 6, with the new alignment for the Chicago Catholic League with zero automatic berths, 15 teams had records of 3-2, 4-1 or 5-0, which means a 2-2 finish in the final four weeks (Week 6 results not included at this point) would get more Chicago Catholic League teams into the playoffs than last season, and some of them are going to qualify with 5-4 records. And while it's possible that some of the current 3-win teams go bust in the final four weeks of play, it's also possible that some of the current 2-win teams take advantage of maybe the luck of the scheduling draw late and get to 5-4. The point is that the realignment has created scheduling situations so that MORE teams from the combined new league can qualify for the playoffs than did last season.
Basically, the view here is that the Chicago Catholic League will have more teams finish 5-4 or better this year than the CCL and ESCC had combined last year, so the view in early October is that several 5-4 teams around the state will again be left out of the playoffs and that the percentage chance of a 4-5 team getting a playoff spot as an at-large team have been zero in all seasons and that 2019 is going to be another year just like the 44 or so seasons before this one.
What is known are these two things:
1) Last year, 18 teams with 5-4 records did not make the field of 256.
2) Last year, 12 teams in the East Suburban Catholic Conference (5 total) and Chicago Catholic League (7 total) qualified for the playoffs.
3) Going into Week 6, with the new alignment for the Chicago Catholic League with zero automatic berths, 15 teams had records of 3-2, 4-1 or 5-0, which means a 2-2 finish in the final four weeks (Week 6 results not included at this point) would get more Chicago Catholic League teams into the playoffs than last season, and some of them are going to qualify with 5-4 records. And while it's possible that some of the current 3-win teams go bust in the final four weeks of play, it's also possible that some of the current 2-win teams take advantage of maybe the luck of the scheduling draw late and get to 5-4. The point is that the realignment has created scheduling situations so that MORE teams from the combined new league can qualify for the playoffs than did last season.
Basically, the view here is that the Chicago Catholic League will have more teams finish 5-4 or better this year than the CCL and ESCC had combined last year, so the view in early October is that several 5-4 teams around the state will again be left out of the playoffs and that the percentage chance of a 4-5 team getting a playoff spot as an at-large team have been zero in all seasons and that 2019 is going to be another year just like the 44 or so seasons before this one.
I think Bremen won their conference many years ago at 4-5.They played at 9-0 Chicago Sullivan & ran them off the field
And because of only 3 conference games the playoff points could be through the roof. They definitely took advantage of the system in place, which was a smart move.