New playoff format!?

From the Spring BOD meeting

NCHSAA BOD makes changes at Spring Meeting
5/4/2006

--In response to a study of playoff formats and wild cards in the new realignment, basketball,volleyball, basaball and softball brackets will expand to a 64-team predetermined bracket, and soccer will go to 64 in the classifications where the numbers warrant filling the bracket. This will eliminate byes, but have no effect on length of layoffs. In the expanded brackets, automatic berths will go to 50 percent of conference members(drop the fraction for these purposes), plus one, and brackets will be completed with wild cards.

--Wild cards will now be determined by order of finish in the conference(in a particular classification)and then winning percentage. A fifth place team with a better winning percentage would not jump over a fourth place team in that same conference for wild card purposes.

This should ease fears of conference games not counting.

 

guys i understand where you are coming from and i agree to an extent. but as far as conference games not meaning something??? you guys need to come to our conference where every game means something. no matter what the records or what you are playing or what you are playing for. our conference is so competitive everyone wants to beat everyone. but i do know what you are saying. it is all about money anyhow, so it doesn;t matter what we think.