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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.

Raw Rankings Playoff Projections

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).

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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 #TeamDivisionLeagueLeague StatusLeague W-L-TRecordRating
1Norco(was #1)D1Big VIII LeagueAuto · D111-121-29.217
2Harvard-Westlake(was #2)D1Mission LeagueAuto · D111-219-49.213
3Lutheran/Orange(was #3)D1Trinity LeagueAuto · D17-318-48.975
4Corona(was #4)D1Big VIII LeagueAuto · D111-218-48.914
5Ayala Ruben(was #5)D1Palomares LeagueAuto · D19-020-28.884
6Sierra Canyon(was #6)D1Mission LeagueAuto · D19-418-58.861
7St John Bosco(was #7)D1Trinity LeagueAuto · D112-119-58.798
8Notre Dame/Sherman Oaks(was #8)D1Mission LeagueAuto · D19-516-78.754
9Temecula Valley(was #9)D1Southwestern LeagueAuto · D113-020-48.740
10Cypress(was #10)D1Crestview LeagueAuto · D110-119-58.677
11Huntington Beach(was #11)D1Sunset LeagueAuto · D115-218-5-18.653
12Oaks Christian(was #12)D1Marmonte LeagueAuto · D19-418-58.592
13Etiwanda(was #13)D1Baseline LeagueAuto · D111-115-78.521
14La Mirada(was #14)D1Gateway LeagueAuto · D19-218-68.457
15Santiago/Corona(was #15)D1Big VIII LeagueAuto · D18-515-108.438
16Maranatha(was #16)D1Olympic LeagueAuto · D19-119-48.422