2024 Baseball Divisional Breakdowns

[Yappi]

2024 Baseball Divisional Breakdowns

• Division I
• Division II
• Division III
• Division IV

2024 Spring Sports Divisional Assignments

The spring sports of softball and baseball utilize competitive balance data from the previous season, therefore new divisional breakdowns are calculated every year. The remaining spring sports – lacrosse, track and field, boys tennis and boys volleyball – do not utilize competitive balance data and keep the same divisional breakdowns for two years at a time. The 2024 season will be the second year of the two-year enrollment cycle. Base enrollment data is provided by the Ohio Department of Education.

For the softball and baseball schools listed below, only those schools that competed in the 2023 tournament are included, while the lacrosse school lists only include the schools that competed in the 2022 tournament. The track and field and boys tennis school lists only include those schools that had a full team compete in the 2022 tournament. Schools that did not compete, or only had individuals compete in the tournament, are not included, but their division assignment can be found on their school directory page.

The boys volleyball list includes school that were registered for the sport as of September 2022.

2024 Baseball Divisions: https://www.ohsaa.org/Sports-Tournaments/Baseball/2024-Baseball

 

[jdizzle]

2024 Baseball Divisional Breakdowns

• Division I
• Division II
• Division III
• Division IV

2024 Spring Sports Divisional Assignments

The spring sports of softball and baseball utilize competitive balance data from the previous season, therefore new divisional breakdowns are calculated every year. The remaining spring sports – lacrosse, track and field, boys tennis and boys volleyball – do not utilize competitive balance data and keep the same divisional breakdowns for two years at a time. The 2024 season will be the second year of the two-year enrollment cycle. Base enrollment data is provided by the Ohio Department of Education.

For the softball and baseball schools listed below, only those schools that competed in the 2023 tournament are included, while the lacrosse school lists only include the schools that competed in the 2022 tournament. The track and field and boys tennis school lists only include those schools that had a full team compete in the 2022 tournament. Schools that did not compete, or only had individuals compete in the tournament, are not included, but their division assignment can be found on their school directory page.

The boys volleyball list includes school that were registered for the sport as of September 2022.

2024 Baseball Divisions: https://www.ohsaa.org/Sports-Tournaments/Baseball/2024-Baseball

Thank you for posting this. I always find this very interesting!

The disparities in numbers blows my mind:
D1- 1300 boys- 356 Boys
D2- 352-200
D3- 199-123
D4- 122-18

I know life isn't fair, I get that. But how is a school with 356 boys supposed to compete with a school with 1300 boys?

The numbers just don't make sense to me.... I am all ears/eyes to hear/see why there is a difference of 900+ in D1 and only, 148 in D2, etc...

Help me out here.

 

[GCPRO]

Its fairly simple yet quite unfair. I believe they pick the number of baseball playing high schools and divide by four. In round numbers, 100 schools playing baseball. The top 25 are D1, 26-50 D2, etc. Obviously, the two biggest disparities are D1 and 4. IMO it should have always been a solid number of student athletes. Lets say 700-1300 is D1, 350-700 is D2, etc. I also believe the CB number is based on varsity rosters, not necessarily kids in the program.

 

[jdizzle]

Its fairly simple yet quite unfair. I believe they pick the number of baseball playing high schools and divide by four. In round numbers, 100 schools playing baseball. The top 25 are D1, 26-50 D2, etc. Obviously, the two biggest disparities are D1 and 4. IMO it should have always been a solid number of student athletes. Lets say 700-1300 is D1, 350-700 is D2, etc. I also believe the CB number is based on varsity rosters, not necessarily kids in the program.

I like your scenario better with D1 (1300-700), etc... makes more sense to me.