SoCal Baseball — Playoff Projections
Snapshot from 2026-04-21 · 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.
Projections view applied. Top-16 ranked teams qualify for Division 1 automatically. For Divisions 2–9, a team qualifies if it finished top-3 in its league or finished outside top-3 but with a .500-or-better overall record ("wildcard"). Surviving teams are then re-grouped into 32-team divisions in rank order.
League data scraped from MaxPreps for 413 of 457 teams. 134 teams removed by current rules. 58 wildcards (sub-3rd but .500+). 43 Unverified pending league-data backfill.
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| Proj # | Team | Division | League Status | League W-L-T | Record | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard-Westlake(was #1) | D1 | Auto · D1 | 10-2 | 17-4 | 9.208 |
| 2 | Norco(was #2) | D1 | Auto · D1 | 11-0 | 18-3 | 9.091 |
| 3 | Lutheran/Orange(was #3) | D1 | Auto · D1 | 6-3 | 15-3 | 9.060 |
| 4 | Ayala Ruben(was #4) | D1 | Auto · D1 | — | 18-2 | 8.955 |
| 5 | Sierra Canyon(was #5) | D1 | Auto · D1 | 8-4 | 16-4 | 8.933 |
| 6 | Corona(was #6) | D1 | Auto · D1 | 10-2 | 14-4 | 8.801 |
| 7 | St John Bosco(was #7) | D1 | Auto · D1 | 11-1 | 16-5 | 8.779 |
| 8 | Temecula Valley(was #8) | D1 | Auto · D1 | 12-0 | 17-4 | 8.770 |
| 9 | Huntington Beach(was #9) | D1 | Auto · D1 | 14-1 | 16-4-1 | 8.766 |
| 10 | Notre Dame/Sherman Oaks(was #10) | D1 | Auto · D1 | 8-4 | 14-6 | 8.727 |
| 11 | La Mirada(was #11) | D1 | Auto · D1 | 7-2 | 17-4 | 8.693 |
| 12 | Cypress(was #12) | D1 | Auto · D1 | 9-1 | 17-5 | 8.689 |
| 13 | Mater Dei(was #13) | D1 | Auto · D1 | 5-4 | 13-6 | 8.606 |
| 14 | Oaks Christian(was #14) | D1 | Auto · D1 | 9-3 | 15-5 | 8.605 |
| 15 | Etiwanda(was #15) | D1 | Auto · D1 | 9-1 | 12-7 | 8.490 |
| 16 | Villa Park(was #16) | D1 | Auto · D1 | 5-3 | 14-7-1 | 8.482 |