Calpreps favors Draft by 32, and Appo by 34

[Fairlawncat]

Calpreps Projections as of today has Draft 40 to 8 over Poquoson, and Appomattox over Union by a score of 42-8. The margins of victory and the scores for all 4 teams/both games are almost identical and like so many things this past year/season, it's just weird. The projections do not take into accounts this past Friday/Saturday games and they will update on Tue evening/Wed morning of this week. These projected margins will surely close with Union and Poquoson's performances over the weekend. No way either of these 2 games are by 4 and 5 TD margins imo. Calpreps missed bigtime on Union and Graham (Graham favored by 23 points) and it missed on Union and Central by a lot. It also missed on Poquoson and Nottoway.

If you are Graham, you have to be wondering if things would have been different if they didn't have the Covid bug, only a few practices before Union, and no superstar Bradshaw playing against Union. If your KW, you really have to feel bad as they were hit by Covid and their season abruptly ended. But, all the Bears and Bulls did were line up, play the 2 two teams in front of them on the field in the playoffs, and handle business, and both the Bears and Bulls won both of their playoff games on the road and come in as 4 seeds. I can't ever recall in 2A where 2 of the final 4 teams playing in the semi's were 4 seeds. I would not be surprised very much if we were talking about Union and Poquoson in the state finals. It's been that kind of past year/season not just in sports, but in seemingly every facet of life.

Should be another fun weekend for 4 great programs with kids determined as ever to win that next game. Safe travel wishes for the folks located towards the middle of the state making their ways to both opposite ends of the state, and almost about as far as you can dang go for the opposite ends. I think Lee High is the only other 2A school west of Union and I think Poquoson is about as far east as you can go in 2A.

 

[BigWinners]

Calpreps Projections as of today has Draft 40 to 8 over Poquoson, and Appomattox over Union by a score of 42-8. The margins of victory and the scores for all 4 teams/both games are almost identical and like so many things this past year/season, it's just weird. The projections do not take into accounts this past Friday/Saturday games and they will update on Tue evening/Wed morning of this week. These projected margins will surely close with Union and Poquoson's performances over the weekend. No way either of these 2 games are by 4 and 5 TD margins imo. Calpreps missed bigtime on Union and Graham (Graham favored by 23 points) and it missed on Union and Central by a lot. It also missed on Poquoson and Nottoway.

If you are Graham, you have to be wondering if things would have been different if they didn't have the Covid bug, only a few practices before Union, and no superstar Bradshaw playing against Union. If your KW, you really have to feel bad as they were hit by Covid and their season abruptly ended. But, all the Bears and Bulls did were line up, play the 2 two teams in front of them on the field in the playoffs, and handle business, and both the Bears and Bulls won both of their playoff games on the road and come in as 4 seeds. I can't ever recall in 2A where 2 of the final 4 teams playing in the semi's were 4 seeds. I would not be surprised very much if we were talking about Union and Poquoson in the state finals. It's been that kind of past year/season not just in sports, but in seemingly every facet of life.

Should be another fun weekend for 4 great programs with kids determined as ever to win that next game. Safe travel wishes for the folks located towards the middle of the state making their ways to both opposite ends of the state, and almost about as far as you can dang go for the opposite ends. I think Lee High is the only other 2A school west of Union and I think Poquoson is about as far east as you can go in 2A.

There's one 1A school between Lee and KY, Thomas Walker, but no 2A. I think it goes Lee-Union-Gate City-Wise from West inward, but GC and Wise could be flipped. Very hard to tell from the map.

 

[Fairlawncat]

There's one 1A school between Lee and KY, Thomas Walker, but no 2A. I think it goes Lee-Union-Gate City-Wise from West inward, but GC and Wise could be flipped. Very hard to tell from the map.

Long travel for Appo and Draft. I think if the season were 10 games instead of 6 and the playoffs were 5 games potentially instead of 4 for the teams that have made it this far, Union and Poquoson wouldn't be fooling anyone. By fooling, I'm saying Union and Poquoson wouldn't be 4 seeds in a regular normal length season. Both would have ended up no less than 3 and probably, both of them the 2 seeds coming into the playoffs. I write this because I think some fans might be thinking neither team has a chance, maybe they do, I don't know Imo, both Union and Poquoson can win.

 

[Gunz41]

Long travel for Appo and Draft. I think if the season were 10 games instead of 6 and the playoffs were 5 games potentially instead of 4 for the teams that have made it this far, Union and Poquoson wouldn't be fooling anyone. By fooling, I'm saying Union and Poquoson wouldn't be 4 seeds in a regular normal length season. Both would have ended up no less than 3 and probably, both of them the 2 seeds coming into the playoffs. I write this because I think some fans might be thinking neither team has a chance, maybe they do, I don't know Imo, both Union and Poquoson can win.

Poquoson was by points the 3 seed. For some unknown reason, they made Amelia the 3 seed and Poquoson the 4. I know how Region D did theirs (2 from each district), but A made absolutely ZERO sense.

The length of season and Covid certainly made a difference for some.

From just reading on here, it appears there are 2 classes with OVERWHELMING favorites in Riverheads and Lord Botetourt, 2 classes with recent dominance in Appomattox and Highland Springs, 2 traditional powers looking to regain their hold in Oscar Smith and Salem vying to battle it out with last years Champs, and then the usual and unusual suspects.

Should be a fun, wild 2 weeks

 

[BigWinners]

Long travel for Appo and Draft. I think if the season were 10 games instead of 6 and the playoffs were 5 games potentially instead of 4 for the teams that have made it this far, Union and Poquoson wouldn't be fooling anyone. By fooling, I'm saying Union and Poquoson wouldn't be 4 seeds in a regular normal length season. Both would have ended up no less than 3 and probably, both of them the 2 seeds coming into the playoffs. I write this because I think some fans might be thinking neither team has a chance, maybe they do, I don't know Imo, both Union and Poquoson can win.

Well I dunno. If Union played a full M7 slate there's a decent chance they lose to Ridegview and are sitting at home right now. The cards def fell right for the Bears who took longer to click since the first year QB got zero practice time due to the basketball title.

 

[Fairlawncat]

Calpreps is now updated reflecting this past weekends games and the numbers-predictions actually got Worse for both Union and Poquoson. Before this weekend, Calpreps had it as Draft over Poquoson by a score of 40-8 for a 32 point victory. After the games from a couple of days ago and their website update, it's now a 33 point margin prediction as they have it as Draft 40 and Poquoson 7. Before this weekend, it was Appo vs Union predicted at 42-8 for a 34 point victory. That is now up to 35 points and they are predicting 42-7 for a 35 point victory.

Of interest maybe, they have Appo 28 vs Draft 21 if they played today and that's a tight score. Also, they have Union beating Poquoson 28-21. They have Stuarts Draft in a simulator with Union by a score of 28-6, so interesting how they come up with their stuff. It's clear about one thing, they like Appo a lot. Can't blame em either.

 

[Gunz41]

It's interesting to see what they say, even if don't put much of any stock in it.

If I recall correctly, prior to the Riverheads/Stuarts Draft game it had RH 24-21. After the 10-7 OT game, it was 20-17.

It also had SD over a whole bunch of frontrunners in higher divisions

 

[Fairlawncat]

Both games with margins of victory by 31 points for Draft and Appo and Calpreps had both winning by about 32 and 34 points. It's kind of scary to me at times how accurate Calpreps can be, but it often is.....very accurate. But, that don't mean its alway accurate.

 

[Fairlawncat]

Going into todays game, Riverheads was favored by 45 points by Calpreps. Calpreps missed it by 1 point as Riverheads won by 44.