Tiebreaker crazy

J's World, by Jeremiah Bartz

The world has gone tiebreaker crazy.

Or my world has gone tiebreaker crazy rather.

I spent a good portion of my Wednesday afternoon mapping out all of the many possible scenarios for the upcoming prep football playoffs.

Just thinking about all the possibilities and situations that could occur will make your head spin. It is almost like an SAT question.

If the Warriors leave Wasilla on a bus at 6 p.m. traveling at 50 miles per hour and the Moose leave Palmer at 7 pm traveling at 75 miles per hour, which team will make it to the playoffs first.

Well it is not quite that complicated, but there a moments when you think you might have to have a degree in statistics to answer all of the tiebreaker questions.

You have got to love it though.

It just shows how competitive our teams are. I would rather have it come down to tiebreakers than one team dominating and two others trying to figure out why they couldn't win a game.

Just as long as it comes down to tiebreakers. A few years ago, Colony was left out of the playoffs because they lost a coin flip.

As a coach how do you tell your team that you are not going to the playoffs because you didn't call heads?

The Northern Railbelt Conference has done a good job of adapting more tiebreakers to try to eliminate the need of the dreaded coin flip.

Unfortunately, the Houston Hawks playoff hopes may come down to a flip of the coin.

If Seward and Houston, both win this weekend, Seward, Houston and Nikiski will all be tied at 3-1.

According to the Houston High administration, the two playoff teams will be decided by a coin flip.

I sincerely hope that it does not come down to this.

Players do not work for months, go through two practices a day and play a schedule full of games, just to have their season end on a flip of the coin.

Even if it means that the teams need to play on a Wednesday to determine the result, let them play.

If that doesn't work, each team should take a player or coach and those chosen should settle the matter in a game of Playstation football.

Anything but a coin flip!

Jeremiah Bartz, the Frontiersman sports editor (sports@frontiersman.com)is bitter about losing the tiebreaker in the office football pool this week. One point!