I shouldn’t have to do this. I don’t really have to do this. And yet, I do.<\/p>\n
This is, once again, my way of expressing extreme brow-furrowing at the IHSAA for being strange in how it goes about publishing finalized state football playoff brackets.<\/p>\n
Now, to the IHSAA’s credit, there is a\u00a0compilation of brackets from the 2018 playoffs now available<\/a>. It has an RPI list and regular-season records. It doesn’t unify the pods with the finals, though. But something needed to be done because guess what, the website redesign launched the first week of the playoffs 404’d all their links from my 2018 bracket announcement<\/a>! Ironically, the football archive links<\/a> for 2013-17 are broken, but the 2007-12 pages in good ol’ HTML are still accessible. Before that, there was an incomplete archiving.<\/p>\n I am looking for, and thus I made, something with the following:<\/p>\n Individual PDFs: Class 8<\/a>, Class\u00a0A<\/a>, Class\u00a01A<\/a>,\u00a0Class 2A<\/a>,\u00a0Class 3A<\/a>,\u00a0Class 4A<\/a>. The combined PDF has some layout adjustments<\/a> because a margin appeared to leave out the edges. I’ve put it in bracket format, but maybe next time, I will go down to a straight-up list like the old archive links.<\/p>\n Because of the pod system and re-seeding, a complete bracket before the playoffs begin is not possible. But why does that stop you from 1) not merging them in the week before the semifinals and 2) not removing<\/em> RPI numbers in the existing pod brackets after those games are played? From the IHSAA, here are the first two rounds of this year’s playoffs<\/a>; here are the Dome brackets<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’m being excessively nitpicky about this. I just feel it could be done better. The IGHSAU shifted the web engine it uses for postseason stuff, but this year’s volleyball brackets exist<\/a> if you hit the right combination of search terms through Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I shouldn’t have to do this. I don’t really have to do this. And yet, I do. This is, once again, my way of expressing extreme brow-furrowing at the IHSAA for being strange in how it goes about publishing finalized … Continue reading \n