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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
209New Roads(was #249)D81st in league6-011-86.784
210Whittier(was #250)D8Wildcard · 5th2-811-96.778
211Lancaster(was #251)D83rd in league9-310-106.759
212Grace(was #254)D83rd in league4-410-106.728
213Garden Grove(was #256)D81st in league8-113-66.697
214St Joseph/Lakewood(was #259)D8Unverified0-16.683
215Nogales(was #264)D82nd in league8-59-76.644
216Carpinteria(was #265)D83rd in league6-412-56.616
217Los Amigos(was #266)D8Unverified13-26.612
218South El Monte(was #267)D81st in league7-210-76.611
219San Jacinto Valley Academy(was #270)D81st in league11-116-66.596
220Buena Park(was #271)D83rd in league3-66-156.576
221Patriot(was #272)D82nd in league8-39-116.567
222Indian Springs(was #273)D82nd in league9-112-56.510
223Carter(was #276)D82nd in league5-411-106.486
224Don Bosco Tech(was #279)D8Unverified3-156.450
225Cabrillo/Long Beach(was #280)D8Wildcard · 7th1-99-86.434
226Beverly Hills(was #281)D8Wildcard · 5th3-38-66.426
227Santa Rosa Academy(was #282)D82nd in league11-113-46.423
228Milken Community(was #283)D8Unverified6-116.421
229Arroyo(was #285)D82nd in league6-29-76.415
230St Monica Preparatory(was #286)D8Unverified6-12-16.414
231San Jacinto(was #287)D8Wildcard · 5th0-1013-11-16.407
232Rio Hondo Prep(was #288)D83rd in league3-37-5-16.370
233Valencia/Placentia(was #289)D82nd in league7-39-96.369
234Jurupa Valley(was #290)D83rd in league5-68-116.336
235Academy/Academic Excellence(was #292)D8Unverified15-46.334
236Chadwick(was #293)D82nd in league3-39-76.331
237St Margarets Episcopal(was #294)D8Unverified4-126.328
238Knight Pete(was #296)D8Unverified7-126.320
239Notre Dame/Riverside(was #297)D82nd in league5-310-116.300
240Poly/Pasadena(was #298)D8Unverified7-126.293