scarab527

Sounds good to me

I'd be down for this and could help grade as well. Unfortunately I can't help with any sort of digitization of the picks.

I think those are a little different because of the groupings of those sectionals. CG and Warren literally couldn't have gotten a bad draw. I was talking more about sectionals where draws can actually impact who ends up winning.

“You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.”

Oh no, one team isn’t going to get to win the one playoff game they otherwise would have. What an absolute tragedy. How will they ever recover from this great injustice? If all you’re judging is postseason success then even with a qualifier you could say the regular season results don’t matter at the end of the day. Get off the internet and go get a breath of fresh air. You’ve been posting constantly on this thread for days now and clearly you’re very mad lmao. It really isn’t that big of a deal and you better get used to it because the IHSAA doesn’t seem like they’re going to change it anytime soon. Oh no, I had one. Calm down, son. It’ll be alright. Just show me on the doll where the all-in format hurt you.

Good thing no one is making that claim lmao. Keep constructing strawmen so that you can knock them down. Hope it makes you feel better about yourself. This is getting sad.

This. If you told any coach or player in the state that regular season games don't mean anything, you'd get laughed out of the room. As you should be.

Definitely could say that looking at it from their perspective. I was looking at it from the viewpoint that GS is the defending champ and is many people's (including myself) pick to win 3A South. Just felt that the draw had higher stakes for them. Still expect them to get through.

Norwell should win this one handily if they are serious contender for 3A

Honestly the only person I saw saying they could make noise in 3A was DT (rip)

Except if you look most of these teams would’ve had to have beat teams in the top half of the Sagarin ratings to win the sectional, just judging from their rankings in the class and their rankings in the sectional. Back track some more then try again.

@Bobref should take a look as well. A lot of guys acting smug on this thread only to be proven spectacularly wrong…

But I was told in another thread that teams in the bottom half of Sagarin have never done anything in the post season ever. In all seriousness, good job with this.

Fair assessment. I guess I was just looking at it from the perspective that DC will get a less physically taxing game as opposed to Harrison/Plainfield. To your point, Harrison actually getting a competitive game at this point in their season might be good for them as well. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

DC definitely got the best draw in this sectional getting McCutcheon. In a sectional where 3 of the 4 teams are pretty evenly matched, drawing the weakest team is for sure a positive, similar to North Side getting Anderson while Snider and Dwenger play again. I'm interested to see who will come out of this sectional, as you said it's a lot more open than what people thought at the beginning of the year. To be honest if the two teams are going to have to play each other either way I don't see the difference in round 1 vs sectional championship other than semantics.

Yep. Now get back to class, son.

We all know the ping pong balls can be fickle, giving certain teams sweetheart draws while giving others seemingly the most-difficult draw possible. I was wondering what everyone thought were some of the best/worst draws for teams throughout the state this year. Here's some I saw: BEST: - Chatard: The Trojans land on the opposite side of the bracket from Oak Hill, Guerin, and Tippecanoe, the three teams with likely the greatest shot at knocking off the Trojans in Sectional 28. Chatard will only have to beat one of them to make it through to the Regional. The Trojans would be favored in every one of these hypothetical games anyway, but avoiding the grind of having to play multiple of these teams is definitely a boon for the Trojans. BEST: - FW North Side: Getting to play Anderson while Snider gets Dwenger again is huge for the Legends. They'll be nice and rested for their rematch with Snider while the Panthers will have to dispatch of Dwenger for the second time in a month. WORST: - Oak Hill/Guerin: Mirroring what I just said about Chatard, both of these teams undoubtedly would've preferred to see the other play Chatard and possibly soften up the Trojans a little bit. Instead they get each other in the first round, and then the winner will get undefeated Tippecanoe Valley in round 2. Just a brutal draw for the teams looking to pull an upset in Sectional 28. WORST: - Gibson Southern: Getting Vincennes round 1 followed by Owen Valley round 2 likely isn't how the Titans would prefer to start their class 3A title defense. They would've had to beat one of these teams no matter what but now they'll have to go through both. WORST: - Carroll/Penn: Tough sectional made tougher by virtue of the draw. I'm guessing if you had to ask which team either of these programs wanted to play round 1 neither would've answered with each other. Whoever gets out of sectional 2 will have earned it. WORST: - Tri-West: Having to play rematches of close games with Danville and WeBo to start the postseason is clearly not the best draw outcome for the Bruins. It won't be easy to get through both of them. WORST: - Andrean: Getting the bye before a rematch with LaVille just doesn't seem to me to be a good thing for the Niners. Chance to lose rhythm during the off week and to come out flat against the Lancers. Coach Skinner even alluded to this in his recent interview with the NWI Times. The Niners have two weeks to prepare for the Lancers, but with LaVille playing Whiting they basically have two weeks of preparation with the added bonus of getting to remain in rhythm and potentially putting new things on tape during their game against the Oilers.

Once I corrected your error I was able to 😉. It is indeed a forum. Just giving you some friendly advice that if you're going to attack someone's intelligence on said forum, make sure you're not committing basic grammatical errors when you do so lmao.

Knowing the difference between to/too/two isn't exactly academic writing either lmao. I find the grammar police annoying usually, just thought calling someone "not to smart" was too ironic not to say something.

Too* Not a great look messing that up when attacking someone else's intelligence.

Not disagreeing with you, but last year Snider beat Dwenger by 11 only to get double-upped by them in the sectional. Beating a team twice in a month is hard to do.

Highly debatable. Thankfully we'll likely get to see how it plays out in a few weeks.

I'll go with Carroll. I think they're the best team outside of Indy this year but we will see.

6A will be a fun watch this year. Really wide open IMO. Some quick thoughts: Elkhart is solid but I'd be shocked if they got to the semistate. I think Carroll, Penn, and CP are all better than them. Will be interesting to see who gets a shot at Indy in semistate. Who represents the North in 6A? Carmel, Fishers, HSE, or a surprise? Can Westfield defend their semistate title and make a run? Brownsburg - BD is obviously really interesting because of all the storylines; regular season rematch, postseason rematch from last year, BD's QB now playing in this game after being out week 1, the playoff monkey on Brownsburg's back... Definitely the biggest first round game in the entire state IMO. Cathedral - Can they win a regional in 6A? Came really close last time they were in the class. BD or Brownsburg will be tough. CG - Warren: Close game to start the season but the teams have gone different directions since then. Does CG win handily this time? Or can Warren pull the upset in the rematch?