by MrBeauxJanglesDeux » Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:03 am
Not to vent, but only shed some light on a prelim team in girls class B. With all due respect to the Sacopee Valley girls this season, did they just show us the imbalance of the heals and how they may need to toss a little change into the system. SV has 3 wins total and they are a 2 game sweep of the class C 7th seed NYA, and then a win over the class D 5th seed Seacoast Christian. Those 3 wins helped SV get up to the final playoff spot in girls class B south as they only take 9. If I’m the 10 and 11 seed teams I may be a little discouraged by this, as they both beat SV by 20 points (which was the norm of it wasn’t more for the SV girls this season). If I have this correct, the Cape and Yarmouth girls had 5 and 6 wins total, which included walks of SV, yet a win over a middle of the pack class D team has gotten SV the final spot of the tourney (prelim). SV played 11 of 18 games against Class C or D squads this season while Yarmouth played 3 lower class games and also playing 3 class A games. Cape played 2 class C or lower squads and then played 8 games with class A schools. I’m just looking for answers to how that seems fair to players or schools when I team in Class B is playing half of their games against schools in lower classes and then beating out a team that not only beats them by 20+ but plays almost half its games against teams from an upper class, how are we sending our best teams from a class to the tourney this way. SV clearly wasn’t better than Cape or Yarmouth and that’s proven head to head, and don’t say that’s how the heals work and it’s just who you beat, they only beat a middle of the pack Class D team that had enough wins to make them worth more than a team in SV’s actual class as well as the middle of the pack Class C team they beat twice to secure points while other teams that beat them up were playing Greely, Brunswick and York! GNG for example is the class B top seed, and 2 of its 4 losses are to Greely the #2 team in A, and GNG has to beat Poland and Freeport in 2 of their last 3 games of the season while each was atop the heals in B south to get the top seed, if they throw some more C and D squads on the schedule instead of playing Greely those 2 games wouldn’t have meant much. We did what was best in going to 5 classes, but did they think about conference affiliation situations and or strength of schedule issues before the move. Why not just schedule lower class games and a handful of in class to stay ready to obtain points to get into the tourney? It just doesn’t seem fair to some girls that could get a chance at a playoff game.