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Dodge City’s football team is still in the hunt for a 6A playoff spot, no matter what we say.

In Sunday’s paper, our district standings listed Hutchinson, Goddard and Garden City as all being alive in 6A-District 8. And that’s true. We also listed Dodge City (0-2 in districts with a -26 points differential) as being eliminated.

And that’s false.

Here’s how Dodge City can get in: The Red Demons must defeat Goddard by at least 13 points. Hutchinson must defeat Garden City by at least 13 points.

That would make Hutch the first District 8 qualifier at 3-0. Second place would be a three-way tie between Garden, Dodge and Goddard at 1-1. They would all have point differentials of -13.

First three-way tiebreaker is head to head among the three schools. All were 1-1 against one another.

The next tiebreaker is victories against teams in your class and higher. So in 6A, Goddard and Dodge would each have three wins over 6A teams (Goddard beat Campus, Derby and Garden City; Dodge beat Wichita South, Wichita North and Goddard under this scenario). Garden City would have beaten only two 6A teams (Derby and Dodge) and would be eliminated.

So, with only two teams remaining in the tie, the next tiebreaker becomes head-to-head meeting, and Dodge would’ve beaten Goddard and would be in the playoffs.

Whew. So it’s possible.

Give our statistical guru Gary Karr some slack, though. From the moment we put the paper to bed on Friday night, he’s working feverishly on getting district standings in the Sunday paper. For years, he had to worry only about one team reaching the playoffs from each district. With two, the final-week scenarios aren’t so clear-cut.

– Kirk Seminoff, sports editor and infrequent poster

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