Which is the better format: determining playoff eligibility and seeding based solely on district play, or taking into account the entire regular season?

I like the format we have now with district play determining playoff seeding.

 

If you make every game count towards playoff seeding (like OH and WV with the computer rankings) then it really hampers your scheduling abilities and it keeps a lot of coaches from being able to play their younger kids in games where the score is meaningless.

Personally, I'd like to see districts abolished and replaced with regions. You would be required to play at minimum four games within your region and you would be seeded from that. Otherwise you are free to schedule as you wish. Although any extra region games could count towards your final seeding.

 

Come play-offs each quarter bracket would be two adjacent regions (West/Louisville and North/Central in the case of 6A) and those quarter brackets would be on different sides of the finals. Thus the top of the northwest quarter bracket would be Louisville 1 vs Western 8 and the bottom would be Western 2 vs Louisville 7. The Northeast bracket would be Western 1 vs Louisville 8 at the top and Louisville 2 vs Western 7 at the bottom.

 

The higher seeded team would always be the one to travel, which helps to lessen travel concerns as the team with the most to gain from the game foots that bill. And you don't have to travel outside of adjacent regions until the semifinals. It would also give every team a fair shot to be in the finals, something which needs to be addressed given how often one side of the bracket is 'loaded' in many classes.

 

EDIT: It should also help to prevent blowouts late in the playoffs by distributing talents as evenly as possible (within travel constraints, there's no way we could seed the entire state)

Edited September 13, 201511 yr by psychicscubadiver

I do not like the states current set up.

 

Noway does any team 0-1,19,2-8 or 3-7 deserve to be in the playoffs.

 

(I do not like it when any team in any state makes the football playoffs with a losing record,including Ohio where you earn your way in with computer points.)

District play but have districts with 5 or more teams and only allow 3-4 teams make playoffs. You can have byes in first week of playoff for dist winners.

I will never be in favor of a contrived computer system to determine anything in HS football...just too many variables. Play it out on the field...NOTHING wrong with how it is now.

I like how it is now.