Saw this from MSHSAA about District Seeding in the future...

[MoSooner69]

4. Topic 4: District Seeding for Team Sports

Would you support the implementation of a point system in all team sports to seed the district tournament?

Count Percentage Answer 78.1% Yes 21.9% No

 

[AC100]

A point system for sports where you play 30 games would be interesting

 

[hangmanbobbyjaggers]

There will be ways around the system. Play up against weak schools and get more points. Districts seedings usually are not the problem people have. Coaches vote on most times are pretty accurate.. It is the games after districts that cause a problems, when top teams are all on 1 side of the bracket. Keep system the way it is, then re seed after districts. If there are so many miles between opponents, they have to meet in the middle.

 

[mizzourahfan]

There will be ways around the system. Play up against weak schools and get more points. Districts seedings usually are not the problem people have. Coaches vote on most times are pretty accurate.. It is the games after districts that cause a problems, when top teams are all on 1 side of the bracket. Keep system the way it is, then re seed after districts. If there are so many miles between opponents, they have to meet in the middle.

Agreed! Re-seed after districts. Everyone goes to Columbia. Single elimination. Use Hearnes and Mizzou arena. If you need more space for round 1 with all the games then Moberly CC, Lincoln, Jeff City HC, Hickman, etc would all be able to host 1 night I am sure. Those gyms all hold more than most of the sectional/quarterfinal games did this year.

 

[O_ducks]

Why reseed after districts if you're still going to have districts with multiple top ranked teams? It's ok if they meet in districts, but not sectionals?

 

[mizzourahfan]

Why reseed after districts if you're still going to have districts with multiple top ranked teams? It's ok if they meet in districts, but not sectionals?

I think there are some location issues so having districts grouped by location still makes the most sense. That will eliminate most teams. Then having the remaining teams after districts, either 16 or 8, can then re-seed so you have the best possible match-ups likely to happen in Columbia. It does suck for some of those districts that will have multiple ranked teams and one is eliminated earlier than they should be, but it's a happy-medium between the two and would be feasible to do.

 

[hangmanbobbyjaggers]

Why reseed after districts if you're still going to have districts with multiple top ranked teams? It's ok if they meet in districts, but not sectionals?

That is the way all sports are set up. Geographic location. Thats the best we can do there

 

[Veer2Eternity]

There will be ways around the system. Play up against weak schools and get more points. Districts seedings usually are not the problem people have. Coaches vote on most times are pretty accurate.. It is the games after districts that cause a problems, when top teams are all on 1 side of the bracket. Keep system the way it is, then re seed after districts. If there are so many miles between opponents, they have to meet in the middle.

People playing up for points is lame. MSHSAA needs to get over that.