There have been some requests to explain how teams got where they did in the postseason.
Yes, it's possible to win your league and not get into the postseason, but it's even weirder than that.
All the AA-I and II teams are in. That's already 10. The top AA-III team is in and then it's either the second-best team in AA-III or the top team in AA-IV. For the top team (Port Wash) to get in, they needed to win something like 88 percent of their games. If they didn't do this (they did), the No. 2 AA-III team gets the spot. Twelve teams make it from AA.
ABC gives me conniptions. All of ABC-I and II are in. That's 10. In ABC-III, South Side and Mineola are automatically in. Why? Because every other team in that league is a B or C school and also in. The top two teams in ABC-IV are in and the top team in ABC-V is in. THEN, the top team in ABC-VI is in, but only if no one in ABC-VII wins more than 88 percent of their games. If a team does, as West Hempstead did this year, the winning ABC-VI team doesn't make it and the ABC-VII team does. In all,16 teams advance.
In the B schools (schools with a smaller enrollment): All the B teams in ABC-III are in (Oyster Bay, Cold Spring Harbor and Malverne). The B teams in ABC-IV and V make it (Locust Valley and Carle Place), as does the top B team in ABC-VI.
Class C is lovely and only has two teams to worry about, Friends and East Rock, which are both in.
- Laura Albanese