Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Mr. Playoffs - High School Version

We are already down to only 2 weeks of regular season high school left. The playoff push has definitely started and the 4A SPSL South is going to be a sprint to the finish. I am going to try and clear up the playoff picture and tell you how each team can make the postseason. First, here are the current standings.

Team League Overall
Puyallup 4-1 6-1
Graham-Kapowsin 4-1 5-2
Rogers 4-1 5-2
Bethel 3-2 5-2
Emerald Ridge 3-2 5-2
Curtis 2-3 3-4
Beamer 0-5 2-5
Spanaway Lake 0-5 1-6

Beamer and Spanaway Lake are out, so see ya guys next year. That leaves 6 teams fighting for 4 spots. The only record that matters for playoff seeding is the league record, so the overall record is useless so forgot about it. Let's outline how each team can get into the playoffs (this will be a lot less confusing next week)

Puyallup plays Curtis, a PHS victory guarentees them the playoffs since they will have beaten every team with a worse record, wining the tiebreaker against all of them.
A Curtis loss means they are out, a victory throws everything for a loop and puts PHS is a very bad spot.

Bethel and Emerald Ridge play this week, the winner is #4, the loser is out as of this week.

GK and Rogers play each other. If GK wins they are in 1st place all alone based on the head-to-head tiebreaker (they will have beaten both Puyallup and Rogers). A Rogers win puts them in 1st and guartenees that GK can't get 1st unless there is a 3-way tie between GK, PHS, and Rogers for 1st.

All of the 6 potentional playoff teams play each other this week, so this will clear up a lot of the tiebreakers and setup a very important final weekend.