SoCal Baseball — Playoff Projections
Snapshot from 2026-04-28 · 458 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 by overall ranking go to D1 automatically. Below that, a team is an auto-qualifier if it finished high enough in its league: 4-team league → top 2, 5–6 team → top 3, 7–8 team → top 4, 9+ team → top 5. Remaining auto-qualifiers are averaged across Divisions 2–9 (each division begins where the next auto-qualifier begins, in rank order).
League data scraped from MaxPreps for 426 of 458 teams. 196 teams removed by current rules. 32 Unverified pending league-data backfill.
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| Proj # | Team | Division | League | League Status | League W-L-T | Record | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norco(was #1) | D1 | Big VIII League | Auto · D1 | 11-1 | 21-2 | 9.217 |
| 2 | Harvard-Westlake(was #2) | D1 | Mission League | Auto · D1 | 11-2 | 19-4 | 9.213 |
| 3 | Lutheran/Orange(was #3) | D1 | Trinity League | Auto · D1 | 7-3 | 18-4 | 8.975 |
| 4 | Corona(was #4) | D1 | Big VIII League | Auto · D1 | 11-2 | 18-4 | 8.914 |
| 5 | Ayala Ruben(was #5) | D1 | Palomares League | Auto · D1 | 9-0 | 20-2 | 8.884 |
| 6 | Sierra Canyon(was #6) | D1 | Mission League | Auto · D1 | 9-4 | 18-5 | 8.861 |
| 7 | St John Bosco(was #7) | D1 | Trinity League | Auto · D1 | 12-1 | 19-5 | 8.798 |
| 8 | Notre Dame/Sherman Oaks(was #8) | D1 | Mission League | Auto · D1 | 9-5 | 16-7 | 8.754 |
| 9 | Temecula Valley(was #9) | D1 | Southwestern League | Auto · D1 | 13-0 | 20-4 | 8.740 |
| 10 | Cypress(was #10) | D1 | Crestview League | Auto · D1 | 10-1 | 19-5 | 8.677 |
| 11 | Huntington Beach(was #11) | D1 | Sunset League | Auto · D1 | 15-2 | 18-5-1 | 8.653 |
| 12 | Oaks Christian(was #12) | D1 | Marmonte League | Auto · D1 | 9-4 | 18-5 | 8.592 |
| 13 | Etiwanda(was #13) | D1 | Baseline League | Auto · D1 | 11-1 | 15-7 | 8.521 |
| 14 | La Mirada(was #14) | D1 | Gateway League | Auto · D1 | 9-2 | 18-6 | 8.457 |
| 15 | Santiago/Corona(was #15) | D1 | Big VIII League | Auto · D1 | 8-5 | 15-10 | 8.438 |
| 16 | Maranatha(was #16) | D1 | Olympic League | Auto · D1 | 9-1 | 19-4 | 8.422 |