Mr. Playoffs - High School Version

After last nights action the playoff picture is a lot clearer. Curtis is out; Puyallup, Rogers, and Bethel are in. The winner of next week's Graham-Kapowsin - Emerald Ridge game will also be playoff bound. Now to figure out where each team is gonna be seeded and who they'll play.

Rogers and Puyallup play this week, the winner will be the #1 seed out of the SPSL South. The winner will host KingCo #4, right now its Woodinville in the 1st week of the playoffs. Also the #1 seed gets all home games until the Tacoma Dome, if they make it that far.

The rest of the picture is very confusing. Bethel will beat Spanaway Lake, so we are giving them that victory for these purposes. If ER wins then they'll be #4, Bethel #3, and the loser of PHS-RHS #2. If GK wins and Puyallup wins, then it would be PHS #1, RHS #2, Bethel #3, and GK #4. But if Rogers beats Puyallup and GK beats ER, then it goes to tiebreakers.

That would mean that PHS, Bethel, and GK would all be tied for 2nd with the exact same record. The 1st tiebreaker is head-to-head. Puyallup beat Bethel, Bethel beat GK, and GK beat Puyallup therefore cancelling each other out. The next tiebreaker is called Power Points, using where the teams finish and who beat who. Each team is given an inverse number to their final standing and its totalled up. For example, 1st place gets 8 points, 2nd place 7 points, etc. If you add up all the wins by the 3 teams, all of them equal 17 so that tiebreaker is out too.

The 3rd-tiebreaker is called Point Differential System where the scores of the games against each other are used. The points given up are subtracted from the points scored in those 2 games. There is a limit of a 14 point deferantial per game. I did the math, Puyallup +6, Bethel +1, and GK -7. So Puyallup would be #2, Bethel #3, and GK #4.

That is really confusing, but I think I got it.

Here are the first round matchups for the SPSL and their potential opponents.

KingCo #4 (Woodinville) at SPSL South #1
SPSL South #2 at Narrows #3 (Gig Harbor or Central Kitsap)
SPSL South #3 at KingCo #2 (Eastlake)
SPSL South #4 at Greater St. Helens #1 (Evergreen)