A thread I recently read made me think about this again and I wondered what this would look like with the new enrollments. After setting it up I notice one issue with the private school success factor. There would need to be a 3 class jump instead of 2, so I set the points at 3 for 1, 8 for 2, and 12 for 3.
Each class size was 43-44. The classes with the lowest ratio were set at 44. Class 1 had the highest ratio at 1.95 but all other classes ranged between 1.3 to 1.58. Districts had 5 or 6 teams and I tried to balance them out from east to west using the backward N Mshsaa typically uses. Travel was cut down some and nothing like Mshsaa has done in the last few years. This eliminated all 1v8 and 2v7 post-season matchups and even created 4v5 games giving schools competitive matchups to end the season and greater opportunities to have post-season success some schools are not used to.
At the end of the season, I will seed the district based on calpreps. I feel it is more accurate than maxpreps and would be better than mshsaa's formula with the addition of another class. I will also use the calpreps predictor each week through districts. I don't like the rotating districts and will reseed the district champs using calpreps. This is one change I wish Mshsaa would consider is continuing the point system through districts and seeding the district champs. They clearly don't care about travel so I'm not sure how they keep using that as a crutch.
Each class size was 43-44. The classes with the lowest ratio were set at 44. Class 1 had the highest ratio at 1.95 but all other classes ranged between 1.3 to 1.58. Districts had 5 or 6 teams and I tried to balance them out from east to west using the backward N Mshsaa typically uses. Travel was cut down some and nothing like Mshsaa has done in the last few years. This eliminated all 1v8 and 2v7 post-season matchups and even created 4v5 games giving schools competitive matchups to end the season and greater opportunities to have post-season success some schools are not used to.
At the end of the season, I will seed the district based on calpreps. I feel it is more accurate than maxpreps and would be better than mshsaa's formula with the addition of another class. I will also use the calpreps predictor each week through districts. I don't like the rotating districts and will reseed the district champs using calpreps. This is one change I wish Mshsaa would consider is continuing the point system through districts and seeding the district champs. They clearly don't care about travel so I'm not sure how they keep using that as a crutch.
