Why have leagues and conferences today?

[blue and white pride]

Play a 10 game regular season. Schedule whoever you want in the first 3 weeks (historic rivalry games not in your classification). Week 4-10 will be District games within your classification. There will be eight/eight team districts. The top (4) teams in each District advance to the state playoffs. Only head to head District game records count towards District seeding for playoffs. The playoffs will consist of (5) rounds. Regionals, Sectionals, Quarterfinal, Semifinal, Championship. The Regional round will be cross bracketed.

Regionals
Game 1- D1 #1 vs D2 #4
Game 2- D1 #2 vs D2 #3
Game 3- D2 #1 vs D1 #4
Game 4- D2 #2 vs D1 #3
Game 5- D3 #1 vs D4 #4
Game 6- D3 #2 vs D4 #3
Game 7- D5 #1 vs D6 #4
Game 8- D5 #2 vs D6 #3
Game 9- D6 #1 vs D5 #4
Game 10- D6 #2 vs D5 #3
Game 11- D5 #1 vs D6 #4
Game 12- D5 #2 vs D6 #3
Game 13- D7 #1 vs D8 #4
Game 14- D7 #2 vs D8 #3
Game 15- D8 #1 vs D7 #4
Game 16- D8 #2 vs D7 #3

Sectionals
Game 17- Game 1 winner vs Game 2 winner
Game 18- Game 3 winner vs Game 4 winner
Game 19- Game 5 winner vs Game 6 winner
Game 20- Game 7 winner vs Game 8 winner
Game 21- Game 9 winner vs Game 10 winner
Game 22- Game 11 winner vs Game 12 winner
Game 23- Game 13 winner vs Game 14 winner
Game 24- Game 15 winner vs Game 16 winner

Quarterfinal
Game 25- Game 17 winner vs Game 18 winner
Game 26- Game 19 winner vs Game 20 winner
Game 27- Game 21 winner vs Game 22 winner
Game 28- Game 23 winner vs Game 24 winner

Semifinal
Game 29- Game 25 winner vs Game 26 winner
Game 30 Game 27 winner vs Game 28 winner

State Championship
Game 30- Game 29 winner vs Game 30winner

 

[mosofan]

Play a 10 game regular season. Schedule whoever you want in the first 3 weeks (historic rivalry games not in your classification). Week 4-10 will be District games within your classification. There will be eight/eight team districts. The top (4) teams in each District advance to the state playoffs. Only head to head District game records count towards District seeding for playoffs. The playoffs will consist of (5) rounds. Regionals, Sectionals, Quarterfinal, Semifinal, Championship. The Regional round will be cross bracketed.

Regionals
Game 1- D1 #1 vs D2 #4
Game 2- D1 #2 vs D2 #3
Game 3- D2 #1 vs D1 #4
Game 4- D2 #2 vs D1 #3
Game 5- D3 #1 vs D4 #4
Game 6- D3 #2 vs D4 #3
Game 7- D5 #1 vs D6 #4
Game 8- D5 #2 vs D6 #3
Game 9- D6 #1 vs D5 #4
Game 10- D6 #2 vs D5 #3
Game 11- D5 #1 vs D6 #4
Game 12- D5 #2 vs D6 #3
Game 13- D7 #1 vs D8 #4
Game 14- D7 #2 vs D8 #3
Game 15- D8 #1 vs D7 #4
Game 16- D8 #2 vs D7 #3

Sectionals
Game 17- Game 1 winner vs Game 2 winner
Game 18- Game 3 winner vs Game 4 winner
Game 19- Game 5 winner vs Game 6 winner
Game 20- Game 7 winner vs Game 8 winner
Game 21- Game 9 winner vs Game 10 winner
Game 22- Game 11 winner vs Game 12 winner
Game 23- Game 13 winner vs Game 14 winner
Game 24- Game 15 winner vs Game 16 winner

Quarterfinal
Game 25- Game 17 winner vs Game 18 winner
Game 26- Game 19 winner vs Game 20 winner
Game 27- Game 21 winner vs Game 22 winner
Game 28- Game 23 winner vs Game 24 winner

Semifinal
Game 29- Game 25 winner vs Game 26 winner
Game 30 Game 27 winner vs Game 28 winner

State Championship
Game 30- Game 29 winner vs Game 30winner

This is basically what Georgia does. The difference is in sectionals. Sectionals would be winner of game 1 vs. Game 4. Also winner of game 2 vs game 3. That way the top 2 seeds from the same district would not meet till the quarterfinal. The two things that were tough about the regular season was: 1. For those schools near the cut line that may jump up and down between classes, it was tough having a completely different schedule every couple of years ... And yes that did actually happen. 2. As others have stated ... The travel for some schools like Joplin, Carthage, and Kickapoo. And it affected all sports, since there were no conferences.

 

[blue and white pride]

Joplin could always go back to 2 high schools. Parkwood resurrection!

 

[red & black brotherhood]

Joplin could always go back to 2 high schools. Parkwood resurrection!

Might as well. Joplin is great at wasting money

 

[Saints-1-fan]

Conference play seems to work well for Lamar. Even though Lamar won their 4th state title before they won their first conference title . District play averages 105 miles to each school for them.

 

[HoopsTournament]

If you did a 10 game schedule and 7 were district games you would have 3 games to play whoever you want from any class and keep your rivalries.

boring

 

[HoopsTournament]

Conferences are more about football.

 

[carthagefan2006]

Joplin could always go back to 2 high schools. Parkwood resurrection!

That doesn't solve the problem for Carthage though. Too small to build two high schools, but large enough to be in the largest class in all sports save for football. Still, I like the idea of state sanctioned conferences better.

 

[carthagefan2006]

This format would work for Class 5. 11 game round robin with a bye week (may schedule 11th nonconference game during bye week)

 

[Got_Dabo]

I was looking for an explanation of why Texas kids can play with college rules but Missouri kids are some how unable too

 

[Veer2Eternity]

I was looking for an explanation of why Texas kids can play with college rules but Missouri kids are some how unable too

Because then the flexbone would be common

 

[JNreturns]

with just one coffee, the first screen of dates and games looked like it was moving on its own. Must blot out eyeballs.