Who gets to play if there's a tie for 16th, or better, place if each team has 0 wins? 2016 Region 3 - 2016-10-29 - Unofficial Harbin points compiled by Joe Eitel
OHSAA approves 16 football playoff teams per region
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MentorGrad2002
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I'd love to be a fly on the wall for that meeting which decides what winless team makes the playoffs!
jonmoxon
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Because every single first round game is going to be a blowout?
Bruce Monnin
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That's probably why a SOS component is likely to be added.
Please enlighten me.
Except what happened last fall proved you wrong.
Being a devils advocate, you will now see some great regular season matchups. Some of the tougher teams scheduled for the playoffs and wouldn't play some of the other tougher teams. Also, schools won't have to schedule out of state games to fill out their schedule. We now won't have Massillon vs bishop sycamore type games anymore.
MentorGrad2002
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I'd say the person wanting 16 of 18 football teams to make the playoffs deserves that term a lot more. Explain how virtually every team making the playoffs in D1 makes the regular season games more impactful and meaningful?
MentorGrad2002
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The problem was never tougher teams refusing to play tougher teams. Those types of teams had to play one another out of necessity to fill their schedules.
Maybe teams who used to schedule softer and duck these teams will schedule them now , but I'll believe it when I see it
No. I certainly do not have to explain something I never said.
MentorGrad2002
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Well that's what I've been talking about throughout the thread so maybe learn to read and keep your dumb labels to yourself
Bull GreenDog
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So pretty much every team in D1 gets to make the playoffs, but almost half of all other teams don't?
Seems fair.
Seems fair.
Stirred not Shaken
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Yeah, I never want another one of those hypocrites at OHSSA talk about player safety again ( of course they will ). To win a State Championship in football, a H. S. team now will have to play 16 games.
Orange&Black64
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Yes they will be blowouts what don’t you understand?
MentorGrad2002
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Cant really complain about that when the reason D1 has less teams is because of smaller schools complaining to get out it. Which then resulted in 7 divisions instead of 6 and those teams moving to D2
Your first sentence was nonsense. I'm not interested enough to read anything after that.
MentorGrad2002
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My first sentence was talking about basketball regular season having way less meaning since everyone makes the playoffs. In football it means more since you have to earn it
You took it out of context. Very cnn of you
Bull GreenDog
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I like how there's now going to be D7 teams who miss the D7 playoffs, but would have qualified if they were in D1.
Perhaps we will start seeing D2 and D3 teams purposely try to INCREASE their Competitive Balance number in order to move up.
Perhaps we will start seeing D2 and D3 teams purposely try to INCREASE their Competitive Balance number in order to move up.
That was in your third paragraph, not your first sentence.
No my fault if it takes you three paragraphs to get to your point. Like I said. I stopped reading after your first sentence of nonsense. I only went back to read your post to be polite.
Just out of curiosity, when did they change the basketball tournament to allow everybody in?
MentorGrad2002
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Just because you have a short attention span, doesn't change the points I've been making in the thread
If you don't want to read it all, don't comment. It will make you look like less of a tool instead of ignoring the point to throw out a childish term on the internet
MentorGrad2002
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Maybe they shoudlnt have complained to get moved down in the first place ..
Most posters from D1 hate this change if you read the thread
Statement about basketball is completely wrong and dumb. Teams are fighting for league titles and every coach would laugh at you implying that tourney seeding isn't important.
MentorGrad2002
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Would you rather have a league title or get further in the playoffs ? Many of times you can beat a team in your conference twice and sometimes they beat you in the playoffs. Id take losing the first 2 in the regular season then winning the 3rd game in the playoffs any day of the week
So if everyone makes the playoffs , you make those regular season games essentially meaningless. Many of times you get a crack at those teams in the playoffs.
With football if you lose those games , you may not even get to the playoffs ! It means way more to have a regular season game where there are bigger stakes.
There aren't huge stakes if you lose a matchup in regular season basketball. You'll be there in the playoffs anyways .
Vincent and Regina
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I know they use to go to Level 3 points if a tie happened at the final spot, but if you win 0 games, you have no level 3 points. I would guess they would look at who they lost to and who had the best record of the opponents or a coin flip. That is a great question.
Redwing
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This is obviously 100% a decision to generate revenue, which they desperately need, so they should just say it. This message of "a great experience for our athletes" is just spin. Some will have a great experience, but a lot will be getting their doors absolutely blown off, and will be practicing all week leading up to their first round game knowing the experience of annihilation is coming. I think you're still going to have opt outs, too. It was all inevitable, so no use griping about it, but it does hurt the urgency of the regular season, which to me is a bummer.