WalkingStick wrote:5-time state chump wrote:ChickenNuggets wrote:Next year 9-man will have four regions of 10 teams in each region. No one will be playing any non-regional games at all as they will have 9-game Regional Schedules. How does QRF work in that situation? Theoretically if there is 4 undefeated region champions, wouldn't they all have the exact same QRF score?
One factor that should eliminate having the same QRF score, would be point differential in those 9 games.
You do that and teams are going to run up scores…when you HAVE to play your other region teams the QRF isn’t necessary. The QRF works in MN because they don’t HAVE to play their section teams…they can schedule whoever they want.
Except QRF does not take point differential into account, QRF assigns points as a team plays another that week based on the opponents scores. They exact formula is a secret for some reason but point differential is not used so running the score up doesn’t matter. From watching it over the years if you beat someone you should and lose to someone you should you don’t gain many points. But large upsets can jump teams 20 pts or lose teams 20 pts. It is also why they wait a couple weeks to calc it the first time.
https://d2q0tptsfejku7.cloudfront.net/uploads/files/2021_22_Sports_And_Activities/Sports/Football/QRF%20Explained.pdf