[LWC]

The only thing I would change about it is make it 5 classes instead of 6 and rework the playoffs/district scheduling. I read one time that some of these teams may have to travel 4 and 5 hours for a game, really?

Someone previously mentioned that KHSAA makes a whole lot more money with 6 classes and everyone making the playoffs. I do not see the format going away.

How many teams are in 1A and 6A? 32? Really? I would try to even out the classes just a little more:

Move some of the teams around to have 5 classes OR to have more even districts.

Currently these are the numbers of teams in each class:
32-1A
34-2A
41-3A
38-4A
40-5A
32-6A

Look at the difference between 2A-3A and 5A-6A. If 1A and 6A stay with 32, then to completely even out the 4 remaining classes you would need a shade over 38 per class. The way to do that is to look at the "border-schools", (i.e. schools that are barely in their classification by size) Take 4 3A schools and make them 2A. Those schools would be:
Heath, West Carter, Jackson County and Trigg County.
Knowing a map a little those schools are very far apart, so you could essentially add each of them to a different 2A district.
That gives 2A 38 teams and 3A now has 37. 4A has 38 teams and would only need to give one team to 3A to give 3A 38 teams. I know this is HIGHLY controversial but the smallest 4A school is terms of size is Highlands. So they would move to 3A.
Now 1A, 2A and 3A are all set. Now 1 team from 5A would need to move down. Here is a strange case. 5A would be left with 39 teams if only 1 moved. So the argument could be for two, but there is not an even number of teams so someone would be left with 39. The statistics between the two smallest 5A schools is actually .5 male students over 2 years. Realistically the case could be made to move Shelby County or Perry County Central down. Perry County Central's district is a perfect logistical fit for them, and Collins is a 4A team, so both Shelby County schools would want that add to happen for logistical and scheduling reasons.

Now with the classes a little more even, this is what it looks like:
32-1A
38-2A
38-3A
38-4A
39-5A
32-6A

Now with 8 districts in each class, that means there should be 4.75 teams in each district. So the easiest way is to have 6 districts with 5 teams and two districts with 4 teams, for the 2A-5A classes. 1A and 6A have the perfect numbers for 8 4-team districts. My proposal needs more work, obviously, and more needs to be looked at for logistics, etc... but that VERY simple work eliminated ANY need for a 6-team district.