Early Playoff Shapings

[DrainTheSwamp]

Waukee/Johnston vs. Ankeny Centennial
Dowling Catholic vs. Johnston/Waukee
Urbandale vs. Southeast Polk
Valley vs. Lewis Central
Cedar Falls vs. Dubuque/North Scott
North Scott/Dubuque vs. CR Washington/Waterloo West
Bettendorf vs. CR Prairie/CR Kennedy
Iowa City West vs. Davenport Central

 

[oldtimefootball]

Are the pairings preset any longer A1 vs B2, A2 vs B1, C1 vs, D2 and D1 vs C2 on each side?

Or do they now try to seed all District winners 1-4 and match within all runner ups 1-4?

Top 1 gets bottom #2
# 2 -1 gets 3rd best #2
#3 - 1 gets 2nd best #2
#4 - 1 gets top #2

Try to avoid previous games played and minimize travel?

Assuming Dowling beats Centennial and Waukee beats Johnston, I think you nailed it on the west.

Dowling-1 vs Johnston -8
Valley -2 vs Lewis Central -7
Waukee -3 vs. Centenniel -6
Urbandale -4. Vs. SE Polk- 5

 

[RamBling]

I have the same question, how is the seating determine this year for first round playoffs?

Assuming Waukee beats Johnston, I completely agree with your #1 through #4 seeding for the West.

It is the #5 through #8 seeds that I have a question on. How is Southeast Polk the #5 with the same district record, a worse over-all record, and a lower tiebreaker points total then the other three?

Am I missing something on the criteria? Thanks!

 

[oldtimefootball]

Per IAHSAA:

District Champions have the opportunity to host
Preset brackets will be made for the playoffs.
District Champions and district runner-ups from the same district will not be paired together in the 1st round. District Champions and at-large qualifiers from the same district may be paired together in the 1st round. Note 4a doesn't have "at large qualifiers", just district champ and runner-up as qualifiers.

You may be correct with SE Polk, RamBling, I assumed SEP wins out but even so, some others may still have better records and the boys in Boone may seed accordingly.

 

[RamBling]

Is it overall record that is The determining factor for seeding? If so, I would guess it's going to play out as follows :
- Lewis Central 8-1 #5
- Johnston 7-2 #6
- SEP 6-3 #7
- Centennial 6-3 #8 (as Polk won head-to-head)

- Centennial cannot play Dowling, so SEP would play Dowling and Centennial would play Valley (#2)
- Lewis Central cannot play Urbandale and Johnston can't play Waukee, so swap them.

That would give us:
-Centennial vs Valley (@Valley Stadium)
-SEP vs Dowling (@Williams Stadium)
-Johnston @ Urbandale
-Lewis Central @ Waukee

Of course, Johnston beating Waukee or Ankeny beating Urbandale throws all this out the window.

 

[oldtimefootball]

As would Centenniel beating Dowling...

 

[RamBling]

That DEFINITELY would!

Are Pinegar & Gibbons back? Is Gates back to full speed? They will need 'all hands on deck' for that one!

 

[Cougar63]

What does Kennedy need to do to get in?

 

[RamBling]

Pretty straightforward for Kennedy to get in: win their last two games (including a head-to-head with Prairie) and they are in.

 

[KidSilverhair]

I don't know how much thought the state puts into seeding any more. For those couple of years where they waited to set the matchups until the previous round of playoffs was over, they paid more attention to that; I think now it's geography more than anything.

Brackets are preset again now, so every team will know their prospective opponents as soon as the field is released on October 20 (or 21). The keys are 1) district champions host the first round, and; 2) you can't have district rematches in the first round. That's about it. The state will try to minimize travel as much as they can, I believe, so that should take precedence over a hard-line seeding order.

Also, at least to this point the state pretends non-district games don't exist for the purposes of playoffs, only district games count. So any thought of seeding wouldn't include non-district results anyway.

 

[IAHSFOOTBALL]

So looks like:

Valley #1 on west side
Johnston #2
Centennial #3
Urbandale #4
Dowling #5
Lewis Central #6
Southeast Polk #7
Waukee #8

Going into next week of course

So Waukee @ Valley
Southeast Polk @ Johnston
Lewis Central @ Centennial
Dowling @ Urbandale

Did I figure this right so far?