Strongest District

Right on. A-1 is usually pretty solid. Not as much as they once were.
Texhoma, Turpin, Mooreland, Seiling back in the day. Then you had the Okeene years. Then Thomas comes and goes.

Several years ago A-5 was pretty stacked. Tonkawa, Morrison, Hominy, Woodland.

Some years you get a 6-1 Tonkawa team traveling to a 7-0 Hominy in week 8 then the next week one of those teams have to go play a 6-2 Morrison. (I’m not saying this scenario has happened) but that’s tough to do.

A-4 getting some love. Is it me or are the districts weird this year? I can get on board with A-4 being tough. I think Ringling is far better than everyone else in that district. The rest are ok. A-1 is full of middle of the pack teams but that district has always been pretty competitive. A-3 looks solid. A-4, A-1, and A-3 all look pretty competitive.

Having a competitive district in my opinion helps you through the playoffs. It’ll definitely be interesting to see how the districts play out.

A-4 and A-6 was the strongest, Pawhuska was in A-5, A-5 was hands down the weakest outside of Pawhuska 

I agree with you here OldBlue, I think the bracket set up was even worse last year. With some teams not even having a chance to play due to Covid. This is a new year which is what I believe this person based his/her predictions off of as the past is the past and many of these teams lost valuable players on each side of the ball.

No I understand it isn’t perfect. It’s just silly that there seems to be two-three teams every year that should be in the quarterfinals and are clearly a better team over another team. I mean some teams finish 2nd in a very tough district then have to travel 4+ hours to play a team that’s been “#1” all year and the team that finishes 3rd in that district gets to travel 4+ hours and play a district champion that wouldn’t have made the playoffs in several other districts. Not a perfect system but I do think it could be better.

We need SoonerBubba’s spreadsheet to help answer this question.

A3 will be more competitive this year. Cashion is still the #1, Tonkawa is a blue-blood, and don't completely sleep on Watonga or OCA this year they may be the bubble teams for them.
A6 will be a slugfest between Hominy, Morrison, Woodland, and Pawnee. Chelsea beat an AWFUL Nowata last Friday, but they should be better than last year.
A5 Pawhuska is still pretty good, but not near the semi-final team they were last year. OKU will probably win 7-8 games, so it should be between them and Commerce for the 2 seed there. The rest of those teams I hope have good basketball teams to look forward to this year.
A1 Mooreland and Hooker seem to be the best two out of the far west teams. Thomas, man what a drop off from last year.
A8 obviously Gore is the king of that dumpster-fire district.

The only way to fix the playoff situation won't work because of the size of our state. What you would do is give District Champs and Runner-ups automatic playoff berths and then fill the other 16 with at large teams by using a power ranking system based off of wins and schedule strength, not a complicated logarithm. Then play the 1 vs. 32, 2 vs 31, etc, but you'd potentially wind up with teams driving 4 hours for a round 1 game. But it would eliminate 3-7 teams that are #4 in their district from reaching the playoffs while a 7-3 team sits home because they finished 5th because of district points. Playoff games would also be far more competitive across the board.

I don’t think the OSSAA will ever change what is in place. But the power ranking system I’m referring to has nothing to do with coaches’ polls. It has everything to do with wins and strength of schedule. Teams would get +10 for a win and +1 for every win of they’re opponents throughout the season, -10 for a loss, +10 for every class up they play -5 for every class down you play, etc. everything is very certain. No “buddy” system at play.

I’d rather study physics than whatever this is.