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How many first round games will be played in your state? In Alabama, we have 6 high school classifications with 8 regions in each class. The top 4 teams in each region make the playoffs (32 teams per class or 16 games per class). This means 96 1st round playoff games. Approximately 900 officials are needed to work the first round. I'm sure this pales to Texas and California to name a couple.
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Kansas
There are 80 first round games in the seven classes. The lowest three classes only use 4-man while the larger four use 5-man. So there are 368 officials needed for the first round out of about 1000 officials in the state. |
Tennessee
16 games in each of 5 classes, so 80 games in Division 1.
In Division 2 (private schools), 4 games. 84 games X (5-man crew + ECO + 3-man chain crew) = 756 officials needed for first round in Tennessee. |
Texas - I believe there are 48 5A, 48 4A, 48 3A, 32 2A, 16 1A, 16 Private and 16 6-man games in round one. Could be 32 on 1A. Guess that's 224 games.
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IOWA
5 Classes
4A Big Schools 3A 2A 1A A Small Schools 16 teams qualify in each class thus 8 games times 5 classes means 40 crews. We also have 8 man football, believe 8 teams qualify 4 more crews. All crews are selected by the recommendations that have been sent in by the coaches. |
In KY
4 classes, 16 games each, total 64 320 officials for first week 5 weeks, championship games to be played at Louisville's Papa John's Stadium Level 1 officials, 197 Level 2, 213 Level 3, 493 total, 903 Level 1 is the beginning official, level 2 and 3 are only elgible for play offs. |
8 Classes.
32 teams per Class. 128 Games on Round 1 Weekend. Football is also the only sport where every team does not make the playoffs. Peace |
In Minnesota, every team does make the playoffs.
Each class has 8 sections with 8 teams. There are 32 games in each class in the first round and 6 classes for 192 games. Most first round games are blow outs and even second round games can be just as bad. |
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Bellevue (3) at Raceland (2), which is near Ashland, who do you have?
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We have district play and the winner of the district advances, that's it. So you can have two really good teams in the same district but if one has a better record or margin of victory, they advance. We have 6 classes including a separate 8 man class. |
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Albany, NY area
Unfortunately, I can't give a definitive answer for the whole state, except that there are five classifications for football. In our area, eight teams make the playoffs from each class except the smallest, from which four make it. So our section has 18 first-round games, with four on-field officials plus a timer for each. There are, I believe, 11 sections in New York state; if they're all about the same size (dunno if that's true), then we'd have not quite 200 first-round playoff games.
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<B> WI </B>
7 Divisions, 16 games each division first round. The crew I sub for has round 3 and round 4 games this year. I expect they will all be there for those. Hoping to see them at State. Since its Friday and I seem to be slacking off at work here are some numbers I gleaned from WI's Official's list. 2012 registered FB Officials. 553 L1s 138 L2s 143 L3s 289 L4s 192 L5s 30 L-Rs (I am suspecting this is retired???) 697 Masters. |
24 and change- Montana
There are 4 classes AA,A,B and (8 man) C. Oh yeah, and 6-man too. AA and A send 8 teams and B and C send 16. Makes for 24 games plus whatever 6 man is. (My pool doesn't cover any 6 man schools so I am unsure). This week is the 2nd round for everyone except AA which starts tonight.
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OHIO
96 games in six divisions. Thus 480 officials needed in the first round. We have 2,552 football officials. Thus, roughly 21% recieve playoff assignments. |
Texas has a 32 team Division I and a 64 team Division II in all classifications from 5A (largest) down to 2A, and has a single division in 1A that I believe has 64 teams. That's public (Texas UIL). There are no bye rounds. I'm not sure about private, since there are private school championships that cross state lines.
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And yes we use local officials on the chains for every playoff game. They are used as alternates if someone goes down. |
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It was a good game but I think the visiting team let it get to them and it eventually got the best of them. Since the problem(s) were coming from outside the stadium fence, it was obviously out of our control and pretty much out of the game admin's control. There was never a safety concern or we may have had to do something. However, we weren't getting in the middle of a name calling match. There were too many officers there to handle that and it didn't seem to be a problem with them. We were just concerned with handling the players and trying to keep them in the game and without too many UC's for language and gestures. Has anybody ever run into a situation like this? If so, how did you handle it? It may be worth reporting to the state assoc and copying the school. |
Playoff selection
NC: We are not on crew system. Playoff officials must be either Class 1 or 2 based on point system of test score, meeting attendance, and game experience. Also you can not have taken the "emergency exam".
In my association the eligible officials are selected from the list by the booking agent with input from a review committee. The crew selected to do a state final game will get a semi-final game together to familiarize themselves. Each association is given an expectation from the state office on how many games in each round the association can expect to receive. |
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Playoffs for NM
6 Divisions
Six Man 8 teams in play offs started 10/28 1A 8 Teams started 11/5 2A 8 Teams started 11/5 3A,4A,5A start next week so with 6 man finals, 1and 2 A semis, and first round of big schools 29 games this weekend 145 officials and I think we have ~200 in the state |
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This is like being at Wrigley Field with the fans on top of the roofs. Terrible thing to have with fans and such, nothing you can do about this. Maybe stop the game and have the police who are at the game site monitor the behavior and if it escalates, call outside police to stop the behavior outside. I probably would have done something like that if fans were using racial slurs toward the players. So what was the crew member accused of? |
[/B][/QUOTE]This is like being at Wrigley Field with the fans on top of the roofs. Terrible thing to have with fans and such, nothing you can do about this. Maybe stop the game and have the police who are at the game site monitor the behavior and if it escalates, call outside police to stop the behavior outside. I probably would have done something like that if fans were using racial slurs toward the players.
So what was the crew member accused of? [/B][/QUOTE] He was accused of calling a black player either a jungle or porch monkey. Don't recall that I've ever heard that before. I believe that may have been a statement from the fans that the kid thought would be good to blame on the official. |
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Level 1 is not supposed to be eligble but there are some working in round 2 that are level one
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