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If the Playoffs began this Friday. Class by Class Brackets
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I ran it on Sunday. Things get a little cleaner Monday night. But the change wasn't enough to change their seed.
Based on the CPL rules some of the teams listed in your bracket will not qualify for the playoffs even if they have 4 wins. Only the top two teams in the white divisions are eligible for the playoffs and only the 1st place team is guaranteed a spot. So a team like Schurz who is 5-1 would not be eligible because they are currently in 3rd place in their division. I may have missed some, but these are the teams that I saw that are in a white division and not currently in 1st or 2nd place
Speer, Richards, Hubbard, Schurz, Rauner, Longwood, Dunbar, Bowen, Julian, Orr.
Speer, Richards, Hubbard, Schurz, Rauner, Longwood, Dunbar, Bowen, Julian, Orr.
Well this will look different for sure, especially after calhoun and bc play each other.
These seedings were taken directly from the Playoff Outlook on the IHSA website. So, is the IHSA wrong?
Yes and no. The IHSA site is wrong in listing any team from the white as having clinched since that can't be determined until conference play is finished. They are correct in listing all teams that can technically still get 1st or 2nd in a white division in the Outlook because those teams are still eligible at the time being.
Below is the wording from the IHSA site that notes only the top of two teams from the white are eligible. It has been reported elsewhere (Soucie maybe?) that the 2nd place teams from the white are not automatically eligible, but instead they need to win a play in game in their week 9 crossover.
At the request of the Chicago Public League, all teams in the Chicago Public Red Conference — comprising the Red Shield, Red Star, Red North, Red South, Red Southwest and Red West divisions — are eligible for the IHSA playoffs. Additionally, at the request of the Chicago Public League, the top two teams in Chicago Public White Conference divisions (White Central, White North, White South, and White West) are eligible for the IHSA playoffs.
They acknowledge the CPS “rules” the outlook page but they don’t seem to be following it, but I didn’t dig super into it.
That rule is daf. I asked Pruitt years ago about that & he said those schools would get killed in the playoffs. I said 80% of CPS teams already do in the playoffs so what’s the difference? I said plus they don’t even get in the city playoffs which is stupid
Yes, I’m aware of that explanation. And I appreciate you citing the direct quote. However, this exercise is a prediction based upon the current outlook for this week. This changes every week until we get to the Saturday of week nine.
The guy who used to do this every week accounted for that and pulled the 3rd place teams out of the Outlook.
