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SoCal Baseball — Playoff Projections

Snapshot from 2026-05-05 · 457 teams

Where each Southern Section baseball team is projected to play in the postseason, based on the official CIF-SS power-index ranking. Updated weekly on Tuesday from the published rankings PDF.

Final Rankings Raw Rankings Playoff Projections All .500 Teams

Projections view applied. Top-16 by overall ranking go to D1 automatically. Below that, a team is an auto-qualifier if it finished high enough in its league: 4-team league → top 2, 5–6 team → top 3, 7–8 team → top 4, 9+ team → top 5. Remaining auto-qualifiers are averaged across Divisions 2–9 (each division begins where the next auto-qualifier begins, in rank order). A team that misses its auto-qualifier cutoff but finishes overall at .500 or better is an "At Large" pick. Each division accepts up to 3 At Large teams; excess at-large picks are dropped from the bracket entirely.

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League data scraped from MaxPreps for 426 of 457 teams. 176 teams removed by current rules. 22 At Large picks (sub-3rd but .500+, capped at 3 per division). 31 Unverified pending league-data backfill.

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Proj #TeamDivisionLeagueLeague StatusLeague W-L-TLeague PctRecordPctRating
1Norco(was #1)D1Big VIII LeagueAuto · D114-10.93323-30.8859.206
2Harvard-Westlake(was #2)D1Mission LeagueAuto · D114-30.82421-50.8089.162
3Sierra Canyon(was #3)D1Mission LeagueAuto · D112-40.75021-50.8088.967
4Lutheran/Orange(was #4)D1Trinity LeagueAuto · D111-40.73321-50.8088.965
5Corona(was #5)D1Big VIII LeagueAuto · D111-40.73319-60.7608.883
6Ayala Ruben(was #6)D1Palomares LeagueAuto · D110-01.00022-20.9178.867
7St John Bosco(was #7)D1Trinity LeagueAuto · D114-10.93322-50.8158.858
8Temecula Valley(was #8)D1Southwestern LeagueAuto · D115-01.00023-40.8528.834
9Notre Dame/Sherman Oaks(was #9)D1Mission LeagueAuto · D112-50.70618-80.6928.723
10Cypress(was #10)D1Crestview LeagueAuto · D110-20.83320-60.7698.651
11Huntington Beach(was #11)D1Sunset LeagueAuto · D116-20.88920-6-10.7598.633
12Oaks Christian(was #12)D1Marmonte LeagueAuto · D111-40.73321-60.7788.538
13Etiwanda(was #13)D1Baseline LeagueAuto · D114-10.93317-70.7088.532
14Maranatha(was #14)D1Olympic LeagueAuto · D111-10.91723-40.8528.521
15Santiago/Corona(was #15)D1Big VIII LeagueAuto · D110-50.66718-100.6438.521
16La Mirada(was #16)D1Gateway LeagueAuto · D110-20.83321-60.7788.471