The OHSAA, like other states, tend to want all the games in one place scheduled one after another to avoid splintering their staff to multiple locations to run the finals. All OHSAA officials, etc can be at one location to run the games.
You just said 'play better'. You can't control your opponents outcomes when you schedule in 2 year agreements for home and away.
Control? No. But you can make an educated guess. Do ya think Massillon schedules St. Ed with absolutely no idea as to whether the Eagles will go 3-7 or 9-1?
That sounds like a a very specific circumstance between 2 schools
Nice. I rarely get out that way. I'm a NE Ohio resident. My favorites are North Royalton and Lakewood.
Actually from that 1985-1998 period when it was 4 per region, the games were almost exclusively at neutral sites. There were instances when a higher seed hosted (which happened a few times with Steubenville), but those were rare. If you need a resource:
Higher seeded teams hosting throughout the regional games would force teams to play better competition, and to beat said competition most of the time.
But the kitchen closes early.
Yeah, I only remember going to neutral sites.
In general, it does -- with the proviso that wins against smaller schools are discounted. In the aggregate, the disparity between the points earned for inter-division games is an accurate reflection of the projected outcome.
How do you objectively quantify easier?
Actually 3 schools but who’s counting
In general, it does not, as is evidenced all the time in playoffs when teams like 3-7 Olentangy Liberty (who played a relatively much stronger schedule) beat an 8-2 team like Findlay. Points earned in a Harbin model aren't a remotely accurate reflection of anything because they never account for performance during losses, are evidenced every year like this year when multiple regions had half the lower seeds win 1st round games.
Not surprisingly, you completely missed the purpose of the conversation above, which is what if later rounds of playoffs hosted home games. In which case, it matters much more what seed you are assigned than it does right now, and places a greater importance of getting the actual seeding numbers done correctly, which Harbin currently does a laughably bad job of.
Do the math. If you can.
By the time you get to the later rounds, it's all been sorted on the field.
Would that be 4-6 Perry who beat a D6 and two one-win teams? Or Hoover, whose only win over a team with a winning record was D4 Buchtel? Or 5-5 Big Walnut who beat 4 teams with a total of 6 wins? So, the best you've got is three teams who collectively won three games against teams with winning records and were 8-15 against D1 and D2 (but 5-1 against smaller schools)?
If memory serves, the 1980 state championship game between Moeller and Massillon was played in Cincinnati, not Dayton.
Correct, at Nippert.
You mean the Perry team that got thumped last week? The Perry team that is 3-21 over the last three years against teams that aren't a) D6, b) 2-18, or c) 6-24?
You obviously either didn't comprehend it when I types "better competition". I for one, definitely believe there is a difference between better competition and Harbin cows. If you don't, I can't help you.
Good catch; you appear to be right. I'll fix that with this weekend's update
Absolutely right here.