[ColonelFan23]

1 glaring issue I see with the RPI bracket is that (believe me I’m not a fan of either school in the example) you have Shelby Valley moving on b/c of the RPI after getting spanked TWICE by West Carter in real life. The RPI will never give some teams or regions a good number and it will penalize those teams even when they won head to head in this scenario.

I noticed the same as I was putting this together. I just moved the highest RPI seed forward to the regional final for numbers sake. West Carter would have received the district championship trophy in my model for winning the regular season district title.

On another note, one huge argument people are making for keeping it intra-district in the first two rounds is that other sports do it. While sports like basketball have post-season district tournaments, the winner and runner-up both move on to the region tournament. In the region tournament, the two teams from the same district are placed on opposite sides of the region bracket with the only chance of them meeting being the championship. So playing sister districts in the first two rounds, if the RPI model is not used, is more similar to how other sports do it. People have failed to recognize this flaw in their argument. I have yet to see someone counter the other sports do it argument with this, which is the reality.