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Mathematician here.  There is no greater measure of strength than margin of victory/loss.  Now there are some valid criticisms people have posted here about big margins vs weak competition.  Any statistician would put in dampening factors such that running it up vs a weak opponent does not give you any more strength beyond a cutoff point, with a logical cutoff beginning at the running clock margin.  On the other side of coin, there should be significant bonus for a win or close loss to a strongly ranked opponent.  The one challenge to a power index like this is the small sample size (10 game season) makes it hard to drive out the preseason biases (i.e. initial weighting needed to start the season) which can be wildly incorrect due to teams changing strength one year to the next.  Nothing is perfect so I would adjust the algorithm to remove early season weighting once a significant number of teams have played each other, usually mid season.   Anyway, I work with statisticians who any single one of them could come up with something better, including myself.  That being said, I think the rankings are much better this year so it would appear to me that they did in fact include some sort of MoV into the algorithm.

I'm not taking issue with your proposal, but I do have a couple of questions.   How do you resolve these situations: 1.  OK, so you've got 6 teams in the district.  Team A beats Team B; B beats C and C beats A.  A, B and C all beat all the other teams in the district and all three teams finish 4-1 in district play. Classic three-team tie for the district title.   How do you break the tie and determine the District Champ who then goes into the playoffs while the other two teams stay home?  A three-team playoff (one quarter each)?  When does this playoff get played - the Monday before the playoffs are supposed to start?   2. If there are only 3 districts in each region, how do you set up the regional playoffs?  Does one of the three teams get a bye?  If so, how do you determine which team?   3.  Let's say District 1 has two really, really good teams and District 2 has six crappy teams.   Are you OK with the District 2 Champion going to the playoffs while the District 1 runner-up stays home because they happened to lose a close game to the eventual District 1 champion early in the season on a questionable call?     Personally, I like the idea of 6 teams in a district.   But, I'd stick with 4 districts in each region.   If that means reducing the number of classes, so be it.  The 4 district champs (using whatever formula or playoff system works best to determine the district champ in the event of ties) host the first round of the playoffs.  I don't care if everyone in the world knows that a runner-up from one district is better than the champion of another district -- if you win your district, you deserve to host at least one playoff game.  Period.  The top remaining four teams fill out the field of 8 teams in each region.  I'll leave for another time the discussion of how those remaining four (non-district champ) teams are selected, but it would likely be through some sort of power ranking.  Same system would determine the seeding of the top 4 district champs.  Yeah, I know this system looks a little familiar, but assuming you have a decent power-ranking formula, it should work.  

SSAA West Nassau  SSAA Cambridge  Rural - Blountstown  Rural - Pahokee  1A True North  2A Bradford Co  2A Cocoa 2A Cardinal Gibbons 3A Jefferson  4A Choctaw  4A Zephyrhills  4A Port Charlotte  5A Mainland  5A Manatee 5A Edgewater  6A Mandarin  6A Osceola  6A West Boca  6A Buchholz  7A Lake Mary  7A Sarasota Riverview  7A Fort Pierce Central  

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Love for SSAA. Two great matchups that could go either way and should be one-score games.  West Nassau  Cambridge  Blountstown Pahokee True North Bradford Cocoa Gibbons Jefferson Choctaw Zephyrhills Port Charlotte  Mainland Manatee Edgewater  Mandarin Osceola West Boca Buchholz Lake Mary Riverview Central