Assigning playoff umpires in Texas

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Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

The options are 3-game or 1. Generally, the preference is for 3, but some poorer or smaller town schools can't afford to take a team and stay somewhere for 2 nights, so they just want to play 1. Occasionally, you'll have a school with 1 superstar pitcher and nothing else - and they want to play 1... and occasionally they'll be up against a school that feels the same way.

I understand school finances, but if they get weathered out in a 1-game playoff, they have to stay anyway.

The "one stud pitcher" rationale is why our state has morphed it's way to
3-game series for all rounds. There were too many teams with better all-around pitching getting beat by the stud in the early rounds. Then when the stud's team got to the 3-game semis, they were getting drilled in games 2 & 3.