Thundersnow wrote:Congratulations to the Fargo and Grand Forks schools for creating a class that guarantees them a trip to the playoffs virtually every year. Jamestown and Dickinson will also contend every year. The other 6 schools will go through cycles where they might compete every 4th or 5th year. I'll be cheering for Valley City this year.
WalkingStick wrote:Thundersnow wrote:Congratulations to the Fargo and Grand Forks schools for creating a class that guarantees them a trip to the playoffs virtually every year. Jamestown and Dickinson will also contend every year. The other 6 schools will go through cycles where they might compete every 4th or 5th year. I'll be cheering for Valley City this year.
The NDHSAA made this change to keep 4 classes and to have A Schools vs A Schools & B Schools vs B Schools. Yep, it definitely benefits certain teams...but so did the other setup. Nothing will be a perfect, utopian world when it comes to classes.
WalkingStick wrote:Thundersnow wrote:Congratulations to the Fargo and Grand Forks schools for creating a class that guarantees them a trip to the playoffs virtually every year. Jamestown and Dickinson will also contend every year. The other 6 schools will go through cycles where they might compete every 4th or 5th year. I'll be cheering for Valley City this year.
The NDHSAA made this change to keep 4 classes and to have A Schools vs A Schools & B Schools vs B Schools. Yep, it definitely benefits certain teams...but so did the other setup. Nothing will be a perfect, utopian world when it comes to classes.
Thundersnow wrote:Congratulations to the Fargo and Grand Forks schools for creating a class that guarantees them a trip to the playoffs virtually every year. Jamestown and Dickinson will also contend every year. The other 6 schools will go through cycles where they might compete every 4th or 5th year. I'll be cheering for Valley City this year.
Thundersnow wrote:Idea 1: Put everybody in a class by enrollment to start with. Allow teams to make their own schedules. If a team wants to travel across the state, let them travel. If a team doesn't want to drive west of Casselton, don't make them. Use QRF for playoff qualifying and seeding. Have a QRF formula that is transparent so fans can understand what winning or losing the next game will do for their favorite team's playoff chances and seeding. Apply your "success factor" equally to everyone. Anyone can move up, anyone can move down based on their success or lack thereof, regardless of enrollment.
Thundersnow wrote:And is Minnesota relatively pleased with their classification system?
WalkingStick wrote:Thundersnow wrote:And is Minnesota relatively pleased with their classification system?
A lot of people don't like the QRF cause it's so secretive...
Hard to compare MN to ND as MN has 6 11-man divisions and 1 9-man (vastly larger divisions too) whereas ND has 3 11-man divisions and 1 9-man.
Thundersnow wrote:Last year, they did not get the correct 8 teams in the 11AA playoffs. Davies was 6-3 and left out while Minot was 2-7 and got in. I'm fine with having 8 teams in, and obviously QRF has a better chance of getting the right 8 teams in than the goofy system used last year.
5-time state chump wrote:Thundersnow wrote:Last year, they did not get the correct 8 teams in the 11AA playoffs. Davies was 6-3 and left out while Minot was 2-7 and got in. I'm fine with having 8 teams in, and obviously QRF has a better chance of getting the right 8 teams in than the goofy system used last year.
Yeah. That's B.S when something like that happens. I'm guessing that was something to do with East/West?
justplayalready wrote:Could an A team play only AA teams, not win any games and have a high enough QRF to make playoffs?
WalkingStick wrote:justplayalready wrote:Could an A team play only AA teams, not win any games and have a high enough QRF to make playoffs?
Use Bismarck as an example with their QRF. It was 23.5 playing all AA schools and going 0-9...wouldn't have made the playoffs in A with that QRF.
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