WIAA’s “Culminating Event”- explained
Nothing is normal in 2020, including the 2020 WIAA football playoffs, which have been rebranded as this season’s “culminating event.”
Here’s what you need to know:
The brackets for all six divisions in 11-player football and an 8-player bracket have been released. There are 196 teams in six divisions in the 11-player culminating event and eight teams in the 8-player playoff.
Teams were seeded electronically utilizing new criteria and formulas to mitigate the effect of COVID cancellations and reshuffling. The criteria include:
- Team’s win percentage
- Opponents’ win percentage
- Opponent’s opponents win percentage
- Defeated Opponents’ Win Percentage
- Defeated Opponents’ Opponents Win Percentage
- Historical Conference Playoff Win Percentage
- Historical Team Playoff Win Percentage
- Strength of Loss Game Value
Phew.
You can access all 11-player brackets here : https://halftime.wiaawi.org/CustomApps/Tournaments/Brackets/HTML/2020_Football_Boys_Div1_Sec1_2.html
WKTY will carry the Division 5 Level 1 matchup between Aquinas and Darlington this Friday, November 13th- with pregame coverage starting at 6:50PM.
Drew Kelly and Hunter Baumgardt will have the call, and the video stream will be available on WKTY’s website and mobile app thanks to Firefighters Credit Union.
