[BaseballMan]

The spring break tournaments on the first thing on most schedules. It is usually within the first one or two weeks of the season. The competition is what they are after, and let's just face it, the 15th and 16th doesn't have a good region from top to bottom. For the most part they will not be good competitive games in which they can get something out of. Playing those teams in Louisville and Lexington is what makes you a good team. If you play the same ol cup cake teams around your area, no matter how good you are, you won't be use to playing good competition and will most likely hurt you come tournament time.

I don't disagree with you. In retrospect though, the district games in series play would only take up 6-9 games at most.

• Example: You win Monday and Tuesday and you don't have to play the 3rd game. Or you split and play a doubleheader on Tuesday to determine the seeding.
  

You will have 27-30 games on a 36-game season to schedule good competition and regional opponents. So this type of district play isn't taking away from level of competition.

A great example where this may benefit teams would be the district with Paintsville, Lawrence County, Johnson Central, and Sheldon Clark. The way that district is seeding now, one dominant pitcher could determine the highest seeds. Where if they played series play - which would only use up 3-6 more games in which they could replace them with some "local cup cake teams" This would give the best overall teams with the deepest pitching staffs the better seeds with a better chance at winning a region and the best chance at representing their region in the sectionals and state. What if Magoffin had a Shane Grimm/Scott Little/Chandler Shepherd type pitcher and beat every team in that district with him, but their 2nd pitcher was average at best. They'd be the #1 seed and advance to the region where they'd most likely be a one and done. Instead if they engaged in series play, the other teams would most likely expose their weakness, and degress them in seeding.

Just a thought. I'm actually starting to believe this may be a good trial idea.