Sentences with phrase «competitive equity divisions»

As you can see, the schools that benefit the most from competitive equity divisions are the high - enrollment, big schools of larger districts like Sacramento Unified, Stockton Unified, East Side Union High School District of San Jose and others.

Not exact matches

For example, the Southern Section is a leader in «competitive equity,» which means that teams are assigned to divisions not by their enrollment but rather by their achievements.

Believe it not, one of the main concerns Robinson has in the upcoming CIFSS Division I playoffs — which will be tougher than ever due to competitive equity placement — is how the girls will do if they fall behind.

>> It's hard to argue against competitive - equity divisions when so many of the games come down to the wire.

>> The other aspect of competitive - equity divisions that has the potential to be the most messy is when a school with a massive enrollment advantage gets to play another with small town style enrollment in a state final.

Competitive equity seeding is the process of putting teams into divisions with no regard whatsoever to enrollments or with section playoff alignments.

Sure, the competition between the teams in the lower divisions of the new competitive equity based placements is fine.

Each section essentially ranks all of the teams that are qualifying for the regional playoffs based on competitive equity, and then the CIF will base its regional divisions on those rankings.

For the Open Division in girls volleyball, competitive equity seeding made no difference for the goal of the top overall teams in the state playing each other.

It is hard for many who have followed enrollment - based playoff divisions for years to grasp some of the wide differences in enrollment that can happen if competitive equity was the norm.

Teams in the Sac - Joaquin Section often do move up in divisions for competitive equity reasons, such as St. Mary's - Stockton in many sports.

To be precise, competitive equity is simply a different method used to determine which playoff divisions each team is placed, and in most cases, replaces a school's enrollment total.

And if not the Open, then it's hard to see Campolindo dropping much farther than the Division I bracket (it's all done by competitive equity now, not by enrollment), and Division III, where the Cougars were last year, is pretty much out of the question.

It's doubtful that the NorCal sections would have a school with as large of an enrollment as Montebello in Division IV or Division V, but using competitive equity you also wouldn't have a school like Stagg - Stockton being in Div.

In this year's NCS playoffs, for example, using competitive equity also would have prevented Clayton Valley - Concord from staying in Division II and instead would have included the Ugly Eagles in Division I.

In short, using competitive equity - based divisions has merit because it should lesson the odds of experiencing one of the least enjoyable aspects of high school sports and that's the opening - round playoff rout.

Using competitive equity factors, a school such as Independence - San Jose, which has 3,260 students but only two winning seasons in the last 10, would not be in the same playoff division in the CCS as Bellarmine Prep - San Jose under any circumstances.

With the way many sections are using Open Divisions and competitive equity - based playoff bracketing now, we thought there was just a little too much guesswork involved.