CHSAA softball committee: Leave playoff structure alone

The Colorado High School Activities Association’s softball committee was not inclined to push forward suggestions to change the playoff format.One section of the Nov. 11 discussion focused on the percentage of teams in each classification that advance. In Class 3A, 59% of the 54 teams advance, while half of the 63 teams that play in Class 4A move on. In Class 5A, 65% of the 49 teams qualify. All three classifications feature a 32-team bracket. The surviving 16 teams from the regional tournaments advance to state. CHSAA has been conducting an in-house survey of its member schools about changing playoff structures for each sport. The majority of the 25 who responded thought there should be changes to the softball postseason brackets; however, the number of respondents amounted to less than 10% of the CHSAA membership.“If you went to a 24-team bracket, that’s the only real suggestion that would work,” said CHSAA Assistant Commissioner Joe Brown.

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