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North District Division II Playoff System
The teams in the four North DII divisions will play their required minimum eight division games. The division games will be scheduled and designated as “District” games on the THSLL schedule. The team in each division with the best record against teams in their own division will be that division’s champion.
RPI* and SOS** scores will be calculated for each team based on their District games, and will be provided to the coaches at our North DII post season meeting. Games played beyond the District games will not be included in RPI or SOS calculations. Coaches will stack rank the other teams, not ranking their own team.
We have six slots for the THSLL DII Post Season, our top twelve teams will play a one-game playoff (1-12, 2-11, 3-10, 4-9, 5-8, 6-7) on May 1st or May 2nd. May 3rd is reserved for rain delay makeup games. We will seed the winning teams based on the stack rank done previously, and the teams will advance in that order to the THSLL DII Post Season.
* To calculate RPI (Rating Percentage Index), divide the sum of all opponents' win percentages, excluding those games played against the team for which RPI is being calculated, by the total number of opponents. Opponents' opponents' win percentage is the average winning percentage of a team's opponents' opponents. (RPI = (WP * 0.25) + (OWP * 0.50) + (OOWP * 0.25))
** To calculate SOS (Strength of Schedule), determine the cumulative won/loss records of the team's opponents and the cumulative won/loss records of the teams' opponents' opponents.