A article to read about IAHSAA football playoff system needs tweaking, again

[adambadger]

Here is a article written by prep sports beat writer Matt Coss about the IAHSAA football playoff system that still needs tweaking. The article was published on October 5, 2016.

http://qctimes.com/sports/high-scho...cle_840b3a07-9c60-51a6-b761-1fffd48a80cc.html

 

[adambadger]

The playoffs need some tweaking with the points system and going back to a bracketed system instead of whom they pick each team to play for each round.

If I was in control, I would bump up the regular season to one week earlier and still have it be a nine-game regular-season.

If they want it to stay at 16-teams as it is now or go to 24-teams to come play when the playoffs begin -- I am in favor of that. Do not go back to making it a 32-team playoff tournament.

If I was in control, I would also make all the games count towards the playoffs including the non-district games.

 

[Jim Grizzly]

The playoffs need some tweaking with the points system and going back to a bracketed system instead of whom they pick each team to play for each round.

If I was in control, I would bump up the regular season to one week earlier and still have it be a nine-game regular-season.

If they want it to stay at 16-teams as it is now or go to 24-teams to come play when the playoffs begin -- I am in favor of that. Do not go back to making it a 32-team playoff tournament.

If I was in control, I would also make all the games count towards the playoffs including the non-district games.

Districts need to be larger to avoid all these three way ties for the top that are resolved by point differential. If there was some way to do this by teams creating groups that played each other each year.

 

[ISUChip]

Districts need to be larger to avoid all these three way ties for the top that are resolved by point differential.

In the last 4 years, statewide in all classes, there have been a total of 9 three-way ties for first place. That's less than 5% of the time.