MIAA tournament proposal

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Can someone explain how the seeding will work?

In CT, it is based purely on winning % by class. No strength of schedule or anything which always leads to many top-ranked team getting knocked out in first or second round by bottom seeded opponents. Most of our tech schools play in the same conference and walk through their easy schedule with no competition and go 16-0 or 15-1. Then they play a .600 team in the 1st or 2nd round from a pretty strong conference and the tech school gets killed. Nonetheless, it is a real tournament and you just have to win every game to walk out the champ .... by the quarters, most of the bad teams have been dispatched and the real tournament starts.

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Boys silly

no one cares

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MIAA will use the MaxPreps proprietary formula. Which means we can't get mad at any one person or group anymore. Big Blue is going to figure it out and we'll never know why.
You will still need winning percentage of 0.500 or better to get in. But if you have winning percentage below 0.500 and are ranked by MaxPrep to be within top 32, you can do play in game to get in. And vice/versa. No more automatic qualifiers either for winning a league. Strength of schedule and quality of wins will matter, as well margin of victory to a limited degree. MaxPreps doesn't take into account home or away wins.

How do they compare/rank teams from different parts of the state that have no common opponents?

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Umm there is never a good reason to play DA if you live in MA - MA ECNL teams are far better than DA in MA - if there was ever a pay to play it is MA DA
On my d ecnl team girls CHOSE to play ecnl - They love playing for the high school no matter how bad the team is and EC NL is excellent for recruitment.

Oh lord here we go again.....

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In CT, it is based purely on winning % by class. No strength of schedule or anything which always leads to many top-ranked team getting knocked out in first or second round by bottom seeded opponents. Most of our tech schools play in the same conference and walk through their easy schedule with no competition and go 16-0 or 15-1. Then they play a .600 team in the 1st or 2nd round from a pretty strong conference and the tech school gets killed. Nonetheless, it is a real tournament and you just have to win every game to walk out the champ .... by the quarters, most of the bad teams have been dispatched and the real tournament starts.

Same in Massachusetts. Tech schools charters, and some pulpits and privates are often “top seeded” in their weak conferences. Parity is a joke. Teams that blow out every team are sitting pretty in 3rd and 4th divisions.

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no one cares

Except college coaches, but you wouldn’t know about that.

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How do they compare/rank teams from different parts of the state that have no common opponents?

MaxPreps representatives will be answering more questions on this at the MSSDA meeting in late March. Long story short, it will look at all high school scores across he state/strength of schedule etc.

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Same in Massachusetts. Tech schools charters, and some pulpits and privates are often “top seeded” in their weak conferences. Parity is a joke. Teams that blow out every team are sitting pretty in 3rd and 4th divisions.

BTW, down here in CT, some of the leagues still have conference tournaments as well, so you still can get those rivalry games if the conferences allow a post season tournament ... usually wrapped up in the first week after the end of the regular season. For conferences that do not do this, they set up friendlies to keep playing over that week.

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MaxPreps representatives will be answering more questions on this at the MSSDA meeting in late March. Long story short, it will look at all high school scores across he state/strength of schedule etc.

Why would Maxpreps have anything to do with the state tournament or seedings ... isnt this the job of MIAA?

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Except college coaches, but you wouldn’t know about that.

College coaches know how to sift through inflated stats. They also don’t concern themselves with high school play anymore.

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In CT, it is based purely on winning % by class. No strength of schedule or anything which always leads to many top-ranked team getting knocked out in first or second round by bottom seeded opponents. Most of our tech schools play in the same conference and walk through their easy schedule with no competition and go 16-0 or 15-1. Then they play a .600 team in the 1st or 2nd round from a pretty strong conference and the tech school gets killed. Nonetheless, it is a real tournament and you just have to win every game to walk out the champ .... by the quarters, most of the bad teams have been dispatched and the real tournament starts.

It’s very similar here. Things don’t get real until deep into the tournament, towards the finals. Division championships are a joke, and nobody really takes them seriously.

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https://www.masslive.com/highschools...t-vautour.html

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What a great idea...said by nobody.Giant schools and more of them in central and eastern Ma vs schools with under 1200 in the west .Guess they need all the help they can muster.

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What a great idea...said by nobody.Giant schools and more of them in central and eastern Ma vs schools with under 1200 in the west .Guess they need all the help they can muster.

You guys can actually earn your way in now. Good luck.

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https://www.masslive.com/highschools...t-vautour.html

I hope individual regions keep their district playoffs. That is a big deal here in CMass. Odds of winning a state title are slim, but odds are much better making it to district final, which is really the memories students will keep. I know MIAA won't run them, but how hard could that be. And the hosting facilities can keep the revenue.