Tourney Idea #2: The All-Virginia champions league<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThis adds in the three state-wide private school champs.\u00a0 Using 2016’s champions from both the public leagues and the three private leagues, your qualifiers are:<\/p>\n
6A: Chantilly (Northern Virginia)
\n5A: Nansemond River (Suffolk)
\n4A: Hanover (Mechanicsville\/Richmond)
\n3A: Rustburg (Lynchburg)
\n2A: Maggie Walker (Richmond)
\n1A: Rappahannock (King George County)<\/p>\n
VISSA Division I: Collegiate (Richmond)
\nVISSA Division II: Greenbrier Christian (Chesapeake)
\nVISSA Division III: Southampton Academy (Franklin)<\/p>\n
What if you seeded this 1-9 based on classifications and played a single elimination tourney?\u00a0 You’d have the two smallest schools (1-A and VISAA division III) in a play-in and then seed the rest roughly by their size.<\/p>\n
8\/9 play-in: Rappahannock versus Southampton<\/p>\n
1 vs 8\/9: Chantilly vs\u00a0Rappahannock\/Southampton Academy
\n2 vs 7: Nansemond River vs Maggie Walker
\n3 vs 6: Collegiate versus Rustburg
\n4 vs 5: \u00a0Hanover versus Greenbrier Christian<\/p>\n
Most of these teams are Central or Southern Virginia and are proximate to Richmond. \u00a0A tournament there would be best for all travelers.<\/p>\n
Theoretical Tournament Predictions:\u00a0<\/strong>Seeds hold in the quarter finals, though Hanover struggles to beat Greenbrier. \u00a0 Hanover beats Chantilly in one semi, Nansemond River in the other, and Hanover wins the title.<\/p>\n
\nTourney Idea #3: The DC\/MD\/VA showdown; an 8-team competition of local champions.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nHere we’d take the champions of the “local” divisions in the Washington DC metropolitan area:<\/p>\n
– Virginia 6-A North champ: Chantilly
\n– Virginia 5-A North champ: Mountain View
\n– WCAC champ; St. Johns
\n– DCIAA champ: Wilson
\n– DCSAA champ: St. Albans
\n– IAC champ: Landon
\n– Maryland 4A West champ: Quince Orchard
\n– Maryland 3A West champ: Damascus<\/p>\n
Seed this 1-8 and do a small tourney.\u00a0 I’d probably seed it Virginia 6-A, Maryland 4A, Virginia 5A, WCAC, Maryland 3A, DCSAA, DCIAA and IAC.\u00a0 So the bracket would be:<\/p>\n
\n- 1-8: Chantilly v Landon<\/li>\n
- 2-7: Quince Orchard v Wilson<\/li>\n
- 3-6: Mountain View v St. Albans<\/li>\n
- 4-5: St. Johns vs Damascus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The only problem here is that you leave out some of the smaller private school leagues and the independent powerhouse Riverdale Baptist.<\/p>\n
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Theoretical Tournament Predictions:\u00a0<\/strong>I think seeds would pretty much hold and Chantilly beats Quince Orchard in\u00a0the final.<\/p>\n
\nTourney Idea #4. The Maryland-Virginia Public School Show Down<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nVirginia Public champs
\n6A: Chantilly (Northern Virginia)
\n5A: Nansemond River (Suffolk)
\n4A: Hanover (Mechanicsville\/Richmond)
\n3A: Rustburg (Lynchburg)
\n2A: Maggie Walker (Richmond)
\n1A: Rappahannock (King George County)<\/p>\n
Maryland Public Champs:
\n4-A: Bel Air (North of Baltimore)
\n3-A: Huntingtown (Soloman’s Island)
\n2-A: La Plata (SE of Waldorf)
\n1-A: Brunswick (Frederick County)<\/p>\n
Maybe you seed it 1-10 and have play-ins with the smallest teams. \u00a0Nearly every first round match-up ends up being MD vs VA team.<\/p>\n
8-9: Maggie Walker vs\u00a0Brunswick
\n7-10: Rustburg\u00a0vs Rappahannock<\/p>\n
1\u00a0Chantilly vs\u00a0Maggie Walker\/Brunswick winner
\n2 Bel Air vs Rustburg\/Rappahannock winner
\n3\u00a0Nansemond River vs\u00a0La Plata
\n4 Huntington vs\u00a0Hanover<\/p>\n
Theoretical Tournament Predictions:\u00a0<\/strong>despite being the 5th seed here, Hanover upsets \u00a0Huntington and Chantilly to get to the final, where it meets Bel Air (a close winner over Nansemond River). \u00a0Hanover prevails.<\/p>\n
\nTourney Idea #5. The All Private School showdowns<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nVISSA Division I: Collegiate (Richmond)
\nVISSA Division II: Greenbrier Christian (Chesapeake)
\nVISSA Division III: Southampton Academy (Franklin)<\/p>\n
MIAA Class A: Spalding (Severna Park, south of Baltimore)
\nMIAA Class B: Boys Latin (North Baltimore)
\nMIAA Class C: St. John’s Catholic Prep (Frederick)<\/p>\n
WCAC: St. Johns (Northwest DC)
\nIAC: Landon (Bethesda)<\/p>\n
Maryland Private Schools: Riverdale Baptist (Upper Marlboro)
\nDCSAA: St. Albans (Northwest DC)
\nMAC: Potomac School (McLean)
\nPVAC: Sandy Spring (Olney)<\/p>\n
I’d probably seed this: Spalding, Collegiate, Riverdale Baptist, Greenbrier Christian, St. Johns DC, St. Albans, Boy’s Latin, and Landon.\u00a0 Then the four smallest schools (Southampton Academy, St. Johns Catholic, Potomac School and Sandy Spring) could be play-in games to the top seeds.\u00a0 So your bracket could be:<\/p>\n
\n- 5-12: St. Johns DC vs Sandy Spring<\/li>\n
- 6-11: St. Albans vs Potomac School<\/li>\n
- 7-10: Boy’s Latin vs St. Johns Catholic<\/li>\n
- 8-9: Landon vs Southampton<\/li>\n
- 1-8\/9: Spalding vs Landon\/Southampton<\/li>\n
- 2-7\/10: Collegiate vs\u00a0boy’s Latin\/St. Johns Catholic<\/li>\n
- 3-6: Riverdale Baptist vs\u00a0St. Albans\/Potomac<\/li>\n
- 4-5: Greenbrier Christian vs\u00a0St. Johns DC\/Sandy Spring<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
That’s a fun little tourney, especially if seeds hold and you have the four elite MD\/VA private schools meeting. \u00a0Its notable that the Prep Baseball Report thinks that Greenbrier Christian is the best school in the state of Virginia, irrespective of its size. \u00a0So perhaps seeding it 4th in this tournament isn’t fair. \u00a0My seedings are mostly driven by the “size” of the divisions these schools play in.<\/p>\n
Theoretical Tournament Predictions:\u00a0<\/strong>Seeds hold in the quarters, Greenbrier beats Spalding in one semi while Riverdale Baptist wins the other, and Greenbrier takes Riverdale in the final.<\/p>\n
\nWhat do you think?\u00a0 Would you like to see any of these fantasy tournaments? \u00a0Do you think my “theoretical predictions” are off? \u00a0I realize this post doesn’t really appeal to many of our Nats-interested readers, but it was a fun thought exercise for me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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(Nats fans: a first half review coming this week; wanted to get this published before it got too “old”). Now that all the seasons for all the DC\/MD\/VA area teams are completed, I have a fun idea.\u00a0 What if we could do a “Champions” tournament of the various schools who won titles? I first started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2411],"tags":[1016],"class_list":["post-12311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-baseball","tag-todd-boss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12311"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12787,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311\/revisions\/12787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}