High School Playoff Seedings

The following is an example of how the points are awarded and how to read the Rugby Ohio high school playoff seedings:

Points for wins

Wins over a SUPER D1 team – 6.5 points

Wins over a Single School Division 1 (SSD1) team – 6 points

Wins over a Competitive Club (CC) team – 6 points

Wins over a Single School Division 2 (SSD2) team – 5.5 points

A draw will be points win of each team added together, divided by 2 and then split evenly between the two teams.  e.g. SSD2 draws CC (((5.5+6)/2)/2) – each team gets 2.875 points

Forfeits are treated as a win.  A team that forfeits a game will have a deduction from their primary points equal to their average 1st and 2nd points. This final determination is made at the end of the season, but can be tracked through the season.

Schedule open dates scenarios

The seeding model assumes that the opponents on each team’s schedule will play a full schedule of games and assigns a % factor of a divisor of 36 (6 weeks times 6 opponents = 36). After each week, every open date that occurs for an opponent that a team has played to date, the seeding model reduces the divisor by one.

  • If week five has is complete and all five of a team’s opponents have been played, then the divisor remains at 36, and second level points are divided by 36 = 100%
  • If one opponent on a team’s schedule to date has had an open date, then the divisor reduces by one to 35, and second level points are divided by 35 = 97.2%
  • If two opponents on a team’s schedule to date have had an open date (or one opponent has 2 open dates), then the divisor reduces by two to 34, and second level points are divided by 34 = 94.4%, and so on.

The second level points are then multiplied by the factor 10 in order to move the decimal point higher so that the averages are comparable to those in past years.

First and second level point averages are then added together for a total.

Seedings Example – Scenario

Team A – a SSD2 team, is 3-0.

Each opponent Team A has defeated is also a SSD2 team.

Opponents 1 and 2, which Team A has defeated, are each 2-1, with their victories coming over SSD2 teams.

Opponent 3, which Team A has defeated, is 1-1, with its victory coming over a SSD2 team. Opponent 3 has had one open date.

First level points – 16.5 points {3 wins * 5.5 points (for defeating SSD2 teams)} divided by 3 (the number of games Team A has played thus far) = 5.5000 first level points.

Second level points – 11.0 from Opponent 1 {2 wins times 5.5 (for defeating SSD2 opponents)}, 11.0 from Opponent 2 {2 wins times 5.5 (for defeating SSD2 opponents)} and 5.5 from Opponent 3 {1 win times 5.5 (for defeating a SSD2 opponent)} for 27.5 points. These 27.5 points are then divided by 99 (since Opponent 3 thus far has had an open date) and multiplied by 10 = 2.7778 second level points.

Forfeited games are awarded the average second level points for that division to make sure that the team forfeited on does not experience a disadvantage from having been forfeited on.

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