WHC playoffs round 1
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Yeah probably so, I guess what I'm trying to say is that if your under .500 you shouldn't be playing any playoff game and definitely not hosting one.
I think it's crappy that Swain gets a home game and Mitchell doesn't.
Looks like somebody dropped out. Still a pretty favorable draw until the third round.
The only thing the NCHSAA is doing, is letting way too many teams into the playoffs. The NCHSAA doesn't control your OOC schedule or how good any team is. Teams should know the RPI formula by now and how it works.
Also, forfeiting the game still gives you a loss, so schedule better teams to help the OWP.
Swain's OWP was 13% higher than Avery's. Langtree's final RPI is only .0089 higher than Avery, so Avery could have had a home game if they played better competition.
Also, forfeiting the game still gives you a loss, so schedule better teams to help the OWP.
Swain's OWP was 13% higher than Avery's. Langtree's final RPI is only .0089 higher than Avery, so Avery could have had a home game if they played better competition.
Technically they get to be at home during the first round, so that has to count for something.
I didn't know when I first posted that the team that was going to play Mitchell opted out. But do you think Swain deserves a home game and Mitchell doesn't? I don't see what's so funny about me saying Mitchell deserves a home game lol Swain got beat bad by Rosman Rosman got beat bad by Owen and Owen got beat bad by Mitchell so how do you think Swain would fair against Mitchell just asking lol? And I'm a Heritage fan btw.
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First, I laughed because I thought you were being funny as Mitchell has a bye. If they didn't have a bye, they would be playing at home in week 1. So I guess the argument is, is it better to suck and have a bye week or to suck and host a bad first round playoff game?
I don't think Swain or Mitchell should have a bye or home game in the playoffs.
If you want my honest opinion, they need to cut the playoffs down to a total of 32 teams (16 west and 16 east). I've outlined this in another forum. If I find it, I'll post it in here shortly. The amount of teams that make the playoffs are beyond ridiculous and to be honest, it wastes the time of the players, coaches and puts good teams at risk playing a pointless game.
Here is the post where I talked about too many teams making the playoffs and how the help NCHSAA not lose out on money, since money seems to be what drives it.
Programs with a couple or three wins do not belong in the state playoffs. They don’t deserve to be. When I was in high school years ago, and my high school played way up in the old 3A, only one team in the conference (the conference champ) was eligible for the state. Sorry Elkin, Avery, South Stokes just don’t deserve to be in the final race.
Hard to do just conference champs anymore with how they have eight classifications and so many split conferences, but there's no reason that you need more than the top 32. That's still 50%+ of each classification.
It matters because kids aren't earning it. Not to mention, you can't tell me a team that has won a game or two is looking forward to travel to a team like Murphy, Tarboro, Reidsville, Shelby, etc. Not everyone deserves to be in the playoffs. Teams/players should have put in more work when it mattered. Just for the sake of the argument, if the teams did put in the work in the offseason and still can't win more than a game, they obviously didn't put in the work and just went through the motions or they just aren't good.
It's also not little league. The world needs to stop handing out participation trophies.
Because it creates a lot of problems between travel and forfeits, especially in smaller sports. The 48-team bracket hasn't created more parity.
I'm from a state where every team made the playoffs, but they used a sectional system, so you'd play the schools closest to you. That won't work with North Carolina's system where schools are traveling three hours to lose by running clock.
Who gets the money from playoff games? Follow the $. They don’t get endowment game money anymore
