Six class alignment

[Birda]

I have mentioned my ideal PIAA alignment for six classifications in a few different threads, so I thought I would lay it all out since I did all the math.  The basic idea is, at least for football (but any sport that has a single-elimination tournament, ie not basketball where PIAA allocates a number of slots), to divide the state into four roughly equal regions.  Based on the alignment done by westernpafootball.com, there are roughly 95-100 teams per classification, so figure 24-26 per region is ideal. In my format, the smallest is 17 and the largest are 32, but I used existing districts - they could completely ignore those and assign regions for each school.  Then use a point system to produce a playoff field of 8 or 16 per region - leave it to the region to decide, a smaller can use 8 a larger can use 16. And they districts still exist to a degree for scheduling purposes.  But it gets rid of the disparity between districts that results in a 1A match-up between the D7 champion representing 30 teams and a D5 champion from 10 teams.

When regions are very large geographically, you can sub-bracket. 3A is a perfect example, D5/6/9/10 have 26 teams together (13 here and 13 up there); take top 4 or 8 from each for first rounds.

1A
D1/2/3/11/12 - 22 teams
D5/6 - 26 teams
D4/9/10 - 20 teams
D7/8 - 26 teams

2A
D1/2/3/11/12 - 24
D4/5/6 - 21
D7 - 23
D9/10 - 17

3A
D1/2/11/12 - 28
D3/4 - 26
D7 - 21
D5/6/9/10 - 26

4A
D1/2/11/12 - 30
D3 - 24
D4/5/6/9/10 - 18
D7/8 - 25

5A
D1 - 28
D3 - 24
D2/4/11/12 - 23
D6/7/8/9/10 - 25

6A
D1 - 32
D11/12 - 27
D6/7/8/10 - 18
D2/3 - 22

[Aiks19]

Makes to much sense! It will never fly!

[Birda]

Makes to much sense! It will never fly!

So true. Actually the ideal alignment would be four classes of public schools and two for private.

[billmurray]

Makes to much sense! It will never fly!

So true. Actually the ideal alignment would be four classes of public schools and two for private.

I'ma let you in on a secret....you don't want that...Jersey does...now all the good players go to private schools...leaving the scraps for the pubs...they've created super classes by doing so........this is directly from some jersey coaches. They're now sorry they pushed for it.

[Birda]

If they want to pay crazy money to increase their chances of sitting on the bench in college, good for them. That's the kind of stupid I would expect in New Jersey.