Cougar4life
11-man fan
What do yall think of this years bracket?
(The bracket can be found on the TAPPS website by the way)
(The bracket can be found on the TAPPS website by the way)
Playoffs Brackets are Out
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freeagent
Six-man pro
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Links to brackets can be found on the private school topics site ... interesting that they are taking 16 D-2 teams ...
John
Cougar4life":1npb4u79 said:
Links to brackets can be found on the private school topics site ... interesting that they are taking 16 D-2 teams ...
John
FalconCoach
11-man fan
It looks like they actually need to win at least 1 game. TAPPS is leaving the last place team out of every district.
Taking 16 teams sure makes the playoffs wide open
Taking 16 teams sure makes the playoffs wide open
exaltHIMfirst
11-man fan
What it DOES is make sure we have a lot of 45'd and out games the first week. Putting a #1 against a #4 almost always results in 2 quarters of play in sixman, especially DIV-II.
freeagent
Six-man pro
exaltHIMfirst":hizk472i said:
I don't have the stats in front of me, but last year I continued the mercy rule scorecard throughout the playoffs. I think something like 49.3% of all regular season games ended by the 45 point rule; with playoffs, it was 49.0%, so close to half of all playoff games ended by that rule.
My guess is that more of those games were in the early rounds, but if memory serves me well, at least one TAPPS championship game ended by the 45 rule, and I know at least one TAPPS semi-final game also ended by that rule ... and the UIL D1 title game was a 44 point win for Richland Springs, nearly making the count.
Just found the numbers: 2007 playoffs ... all playoff games 46.2% (does not include first round TCAF games, which were counted with Week 10 results).
Public schools 22/46 games, 47.8% including two of the four semifinals that ended in 45-games.
Private schools: TAPPS playoffs 13/26, or 50%, including one final (D1) and one semifinal (D2); TCAF playoffs 4/10, or 40% only 1 semifinal ended in a 45 game, but 3 of the 4 first round games played in week 10 ended by 45 (the fourth was a forfeit).
To MRHBM all teams have to play each other in district play and with the tie breaker in place there will never be a team get into the playoffs playing all district games. However, due to TAPPS rules I believe their can be a team be granted a playoff birth with Zero wins. Since we are only dropping one team in some districts if by some chance one of the teams above the last place winless team forfeits a district game they are no longer eligible for the playoffs so the winless team would move up and take their place. But Lifegate can confirm that for everyone if he reads this post and since John is everywhere I bet he will.
freeagent
Six-man pro
AHWVU":3jhmudyh said:
Yes, that is true. Forfeiting a district game makes you ineligible for the playoffs in any TAPPS sport, so it is possible for an 0-and-something district team to make the playoffs. That would assume that the forfeit did not involve the 0-fer team, of course.
A couple years ago, we played Joshua Christian in the playoffs. I think it was Waxahachie Cornerstone (then a private school as opposed to the charter school operating there) who should have been our opponent, but they had to forfeit a district game because they didn't have enough players (due to grades or other problems). Joshua had started to put their equipment up and was ready to start buckets, but pulled everything out and played us in a pretty decent game (I think we won 54-43 or something like that).
Another story I was told was in the TAPPS baseball playoffs many years ago. One of the district teams didn't finish the season and Victoria Faith made the playoffs with an 0-fer district record and 0-18 overall. After the first round of the playoffs, they were 0-19.
