I've gotten a couple e-mails from people inquiring into the point system used to seed the PIAA's district tournaments, a system that appears to be as complicated as college football's BCS formula.

On the surface, it looks like each team eligible for the district tournament is graded on three criteria: Wins, Strength of Schedule and what is labeled 'Bonus points'.

Each win over a Class AAAA team garners 5 win points. So for Chester, which won 23 games, the Clippers picked up 115 points. Beating a AAA team counts for 4 points, AA team is 3 points and A is 1 point.

It only gets more complex from there.

Strength of schedule factors into this formula as well. It multiplies the winning percentage of a team's opponents by 5. Again - using Chester as an example - the Clippers played three teams that were nationally ranked at some point. So naturally, they led the field with 76.41 schedule points. The next-closest team was Penn Wood with 69.18.

Bonus points are compiled by multiplying the winning percentage of the opponents a team beat by 12. And a power rating is contrived by adding the three aforementioned criteria together and dividing the sum by the total number of games a team played.

Make sense? It took some research - and the help of Chichester assistant coach Ray Palladino, who chipped in with some e-mail pointers - to figure this all out.