{"id":10485,"date":"2018-11-26T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10485"},"modified":"2018-11-25T14:54:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T20:54:32","slug":"2018-iowa-high-school-football-playoff-brackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/2018-iowa-high-school-football-playoff-brackets\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Iowa high school football playoff brackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given the Iowa High School Athletic Association&#8217;s tinkering with the postseason football format again, I thought, <em>Maybe they&#8217;ll figure out how to put complete brackets on the website. <\/em>I&#8217;m pretty sure this used to happen, even if it was either organized by class or in a text-only style, but a redesign a while back nuked a decade&#8217;s worth of links.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iahsaa.org\/football\/2018-football-post-season-schedule\/\">The entire postseason with scores and results is here.<\/a> That&#8217;s good \u2014 except for the part where the championship scores, as of this writing, have not been inserted. But it doesn&#8217;t do any differentiation between home and away, nor does it group the classes together. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iahsaa.org\/football\/2018-postseason-qualifiers-brackets\/\">There are pages with brackets by pod<\/a>, separated by class (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iahsaa.org\/general\/2018-class-a-football-postseason\/\">here&#8217;s Class A<\/a>), but the images don&#8217;t include the second-round winners in the images, nor do we get a Grand Unified Bracket.<\/p>\n<p>The IGHSAU&#8217;s website, although also not great to navigate, <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.tourneymachine.com\/Public\/Results\/Tournament.aspx?IDTournament=h201811021323593962f9efeee1af748\">does have brackets if you know where to look<\/a>. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m looking for, and for football, well, I guess it&#8217;s up to me.<\/p>\n<p>So I made playoff brackets. <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/pdfs\/IAHSFB_Brackets18.pdf\">Here&#8217;s a PDF with all classes<\/a>, and standalone images: <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/pdfs\/Bracket8_18.png\">8<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/pdfs\/Bracket0A_18.png\">A<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/pdfs\/Bracket1A_18.png\">1A<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/pdfs\/Bracket2A_18.png\">2A<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/pdfs\/Bracket3A_18.png\">3A<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/pdfs\/Bracket4A_18.png\">4A<\/a>. I did this for <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/pdfs\/IAHSFB_Brackets14.pdf\">2014<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/pdfs\/IAHSFB_Brackets15.pdf\">2015<\/a> as well, but gave up on 2016 and 2017 because I didn&#8217;t want to do 32 teams per class again while also not knowing the precise district order of finish.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s as quick and dirty as one can do while still providing all pertinent information: RPI, home\/away, and the scores.<\/p>\n<p>If you like this, could you drop me an e-mail? (See sidebar.) It doesn&#8217;t take that much time, but it does take some, and if other people find this useful I&#8217;ll be more inclined to continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the Iowa High School Athletic Association&#8217;s tinkering with the postseason football format again, I thought, Maybe they&#8217;ll figure out how to put complete brackets on the website. I&#8217;m pretty sure this used to happen, even if it was either &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/2018-iowa-high-school-football-playoff-brackets\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10489,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485\/revisions\/10489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}