Playoff Picture · Clinches · Through Week 4· Statewide · Public groups

Clinches

Who can lock up a playoff spot this week, who already has, and who has been knocked out. Clinched and Out are printed only when proven; virtually means all but certain.

Playoff picturePicture Bracket Clinches

Through Week 4Week 4

Who can clinch this weekWho can clinch

Week 5

No one can clinch in Week 5.No public team locks a spot with a win alone, or with a win plus one other result. This list fills in as the Oct 24 cutoff gets closer.

Settled after Week 4

2 clinched · 4 out

INRumson-Fair Haven 5-0South Group 2 · No. 1 in the groupVirtually clinchedRumson-Fair Haven has virtually clinched a playoff spot (>99.9%). 20,000 of 20,000 simulated seasons keep them there and a 500-try search found no scenario that does not; not yet proved.

INWashington Twp. 5-0South Group 5 · No. 1 in the groupVirtually clinchedWashington Twp. has virtually clinched a playoff spot (>99.9%). 20,000 of 20,000 simulated seasons keep them there and a 500-try search found no scenario that does not; not yet proved.

OUTWeehawken 1-4North Group 1 · No. 25 in the groupVirtually eliminatedWeehawken is virtually eliminated from a playoff spot (<0.1%). 0 of 20,000 simulated seasons get them there and a 500-try search found no scenario that does; not yet proved.

OUTDunellen 0-4North Group 1 · No. 30 in the groupVirtually eliminatedDunellen is virtually eliminated from a playoff spot (<0.1%). 0 of 20,000 simulated seasons get them there and a 500-try search found no scenario that does; not yet proved.

OUTLyndhurst 0-5North Group 2 · No. 29 in the groupVirtually eliminatedLyndhurst is virtually eliminated from a playoff spot (<0.1%). 0 of 20,000 simulated seasons get them there and a 500-try search found no scenario that does; not yet proved.

OUTManchester Regional 0-5North Group 2 · No. 30 in the groupVirtually eliminatedManchester Regional is virtually eliminated from a playoff spot (<0.1%). 0 of 20,000 simulated seasons get them there and a 500-try search found no scenario that does; not yet proved.

Not called: Bogota (North Group 1) and Secaucus (North Group 1) and Cresskill (North Group 2) and Palisades Park (North Group 4): our schedule is missing some of their games.

Where every group standsEvery group

Public groups · top 16 eligible teams make it

GroupClinchedStill in the raceIn raceOut

North Group 10292Playoff picture →

North Group 20292Playoff picture →

North Group 30270Playoff picture →

North Group 40280Playoff picture →

North Group 50280Playoff picture →

South Group 10310Playoff picture →

South Group 21280Playoff picture →

South Group 30280Playoff picture →

South Group 40270Playoff picture →

South Group 51260Playoff picture →

Earlier weeks: nothing was settled in Weeks 1, 2 or 3.

Clinched, or virtually

Clinched and Out are printed only when no combination of results can change them. Virtually means all but certain, but not yet proven.

How qualifying works →

Public groups only

Every non-public school that enters is in, and a committee seeds them, so there is nothing to clinch. Their projected seeds are on the Playoff Picture.

Non-public playoff picture →

Only complete schedules

We never call a team whose schedule is missing games: a missing game could change everything. Those teams are called once their schedule is complete.

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