Changes to Point System Methods
Recently the PIAA made changes towards the ways in which points are counted towards a team’s overall maximum number of contests. Mainly, teams that competed in multi-day tournaments that included pool play, followed by a bracketed tournament, raised issues with the number of matches wrestlers were amassing. Below is a press release from the PIAA on the changes to be implemented in 2012-13.
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Friday, October 07, 2011
PIAA BOARD OF DIRECTORS APPROVES NEW METHOD OF COUNTING REGULAR SEASON INDIVIDUAL TOURNAMENTS AND MULTIPLE SCHOOL (DUAL) EVENTS IN THE SPORT OF WRESTLING, EFFECTIVE 2012-2013 SCHOOL YEAR
At its meeting of Friday, October 7, 2011, the PIAA Board of Directors amended ARTICLE XVI, SEASON AND OUT-OF-SEASON RULES AND REGULATIONS, Table II – Schedule of Winter Sports, NOTE 6, of the PIAA By-Laws, to provide for a method of counting Regular Season individual Tournaments and Multiple School (Dual) Events in the sport of wrestling to be 1) consistent with National
Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Wrestling Rule 11, Dual-Meet/Team-Formatted Tournaments, and 2) counted based on the number of dual meets each involved Team wrestles; and to amend the GLOSSARY to define a “Combination Tournament”, effective July 1, 2012, to read as follows:
TABLE II –
Maximum Number of Regular Season Contests: 22 (SEE NOTE 6)
Maximum Number of Regular Season Inter-School Practices or Scrimmages: (2)
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NOTES:
6. A PIAA member school is permitted to participate in a maximum of twenty-two (22) Regular Season wrestling Contests based on the following method of counting Regular Season wrestling Contests:
One (1) Contest for each dual meet or each dual meet wrestled within either a Multiple School (Dual) Event or Combination Tournament.
Two (2) Contests for each triangular meet, or for each individual T
ournament, or each individual Tournament wrestled within a Combination Tournament and involving no more than up to 8 Teams.
Three (3) Contests for each quadrangular meet, for each one-day Multiple School (Dual) Event, or for each individual Tournament, or each individual Tournament wrestled within a Combination Tournament and involving at least 9 or more Teams.
Four (4) Contests for each two-day Multiple School (Dual) Event; and two (2) additional Contests for each additional day of a Multiple School
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GLOSSARY
COMBINATION TOURNAMENT: A Multiple School (Dual) Event in each of the NFHS weight classes in which individuals initially move from round to round as an interscholastic wrestling Team (pools) or advance based on Team results culminating in the wrestlers’ placement on an individual bracket with advancement from that point based on individual results.
MULTIPLE SCHOOL (DUAL) EVENT: Contests involving three (3) or more Teams of students representing their schools in interscholastic Team wrestling competition.