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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.

Raw Rankings Playoff Projections

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.

Wildcards (.500+ outside top-3):IncludeExclude

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 #TeamDivisionLeague StatusLeague W-L-TRecordRating
17Santiago/Corona(was #17)D23rd in league7-516-78.475
18Royal(was #18)D21st in league9-119-28.433
19Servite(was #19)D2Wildcard · 4th5-713-88.426
20Westlake(was #20)D22nd in league9-315-68.414
21South Hills(was #21)D22nd in league9-317-48.406
22Paraclete(was #22)D21st in league10-018-48.399
23Thousand Oaks(was #23)D2Wildcard · 4th5-715-68.398
24Newport Harbor(was #24)D22nd in league12-317-68.387
25Linfield Christian(was #25)D22nd in league7-417-48.366
26Foothill/Santa Ana(was #26)D23rd in league3-515-78.355
27Maranatha(was #27)D21st in league8-117-58.334
28Aquinas(was #28)D21st in league8-115-68.319
29Loyola(was #29)D2Wildcard · 4th7-514-7-18.318
30Santa Margarita(was #30)D2Wildcard · 5th4-812-98.304
31Ganesha(was #31)D21st in league6-015-1-18.296
32Gahr(was #32)D22nd in league6-311-9-18.285
33Great Oak(was #33)D23rd in league7-4-111-9-18.251
34Rancho Christian(was #34)D21st in league12-017-38.251
35Vista Murrieta(was #35)D22nd in league9-2-113-4-38.244
36Dana Hills(was #36)D23rd in league5-415-78.236
37Aliso Niguel(was #38)D2Wildcard · 4th3-5-115-5-28.228
38Chaminade(was #39)D2Wildcard · 6th4-812-88.225
39Alemany(was #40)D2Wildcard · 5th7-513-68.215
40Palos Verdes(was #41)D21st in league10-217-58.213
41Newbury Park(was #42)D23rd in league7-513-88.171
42Elsinore(was #43)D21st in league8-115-38.168
43El Segundo(was #44)D22nd in league8-214-58.141
44St Francis(was #45)D2Wildcard · 7th3-912-8-18.140
45Mira Costa(was #46)D23rd in league6-415-98.134
46Valley View(was #47)D22nd in league7-218-28.132
47Fountain Valley(was #48)D23rd in league6-911-108.123
48Yorba Linda(was #49)D21st in league7-115-7-18.117