Class 3A Baseball Playoff Breakdown

Class 3A Playoff Breakdown

Class 3A RPI Rankings

RPI Rankings (Official Rankings via Chsaanow.com)

http://chsaanow.com/rpi/baseball/3a/

How Class 3A Playoff Works

1. The Top two teams from each district (designated by leagues and excluding the Colorado 7 and Confluence) will automatically qualify for the regional tournament. If any of the three teams playing in the 3A/4A Colorado 7 win that league or finish second place outright, that team would also automatically qualify.  The remaining 18 (19.20) teams will qualify by RPI.
2. The six (7) league champions plus the next 2 (1) highest ranked teams by the final RPI standings will host regionals. Once those teams have been placed on the bracket, the committee will then place the remaining teams on the bracket utilizing the seeding process outlined in
   Seeding Process-Class 3A, 4A, 5A”.
3. Regional and State Brackets are posted at the end.

Class 3A Regional qualifiers

Note: I am picking Regional Qualifiers by current league leaders or highest ranked team in leagues for the automatic berths.  All other teams are picked by RPI

Qualifiers

Automatic Qualifiers

Fort Lupton-Colorado 7 League (runner up-will host)

The Academy-Frontier League (Champion)

Bennett-Frontier League

Bayfield-Intermountain League (Champion)

Alamosa-Intermountain League

Faith Christian-Metro League (Champion)

Peak to Peak-Metro League

University-Patriot League (Champion)

Sterling-Patriot League

La Junta-Tri-Peaks League (Champion)

Lamar-Tri-Peaks League

Delta-Western Slope League (Champion)

Aspen-Western Slope League

­At Large

Buena Vista, Platte Valley, Eaton, Colorado Academy, Kent Denver, Rye, Resurrection Christian, Valley, Machebeuf, Jefferson Academy, Weld Central, Cedaredge, Centauri, Middle Park, Pagosa Springs, Roaring Fork, Brush, Strasburg, St. Mary’s

Regional Hosts (In order by RPI and following seeding rules)

1. University
2. La Junta
3. Lamar
4. The Academy
5. Faith Christian
6. Bayfield
7. Delta
8. Fort Lupton

Seeding Process-Class 3A, 4A, and 5A only

After determining the qualifiers to the state bracket through the automatic seeds and RPI rankings each 3A bracket shall be seeded by a committee appointed by the CHSAA Assistant Commissioner responsible for baseball on a bracket featuring four quadrants.  The committee may use the following in determining the bracket:

• RPI Final Rankings
• League Standings
• Head to Head in Non-League Games
• Strength of League
• Geography (Lowest 8 seeded teams may be adjusted to improve overall geography of the bracket)

Note on quadrant placement as it refers to League Standing; Designations (1,2 etc) from a league are significant in the seeding process in that a team may not be seeded above a team from it own league that has better designation within a quadrant (e.g. D4 may not be seeded above D3 but, C3 may be seeded above CSM2 within a quadrant).  But D4 could be a #4 seed in on region and D3 could be a #5 seed in another quadrant. Note: The committee shall when possible avoid pairing that will cause teams from the same league to meet in the 1^st round.