My 2017 proposal to realign NCHSAA classes & playoffs

I have a proposed system that I believe will greatly improve the conferences
and playoffs in North Carolina. 

1) First of all, I believe we need to realign to a 6-CLASS SYSTEM, 6A being 
largest and 1A being smallest.  I created conferences this way: I took the 
2016 ADM numbers (student population) and added a 25% penalty for all
charter and perochial schools.  I then divided up the classes by football-
playing schools (46 in each of 6A and 1A and 71 or so in 2A thru 5A).  I
then added the non-football schools back in.

2) Playoffs: My proposed system would create 6 state champions in every
major sport.  I would have 32 teams make the playoffs in 2A-5A and 24 in 1A 
and 6A(32 in 1A sports where many charter schools participate).

Teams would qualify for the playoffs as follows: there would be automatic
qualifiers based on the number of teams in each conference using the formula
(x/2 - 1) and round up, where x is the number of teams in the conference.
Using this formula, conferences with 3-4 teams would get 1 automatic 
qualifier(AQ), 5-6 teams would get 2 AQ'S, 7-8 teams would get 3 AQ's, and 
9-10 teams would get 4 AQ's.  In addition, this would be applied to each
division of a split conference.  Each division leader in a split conference
will qualify automatically regardless of division size.  The remaining
participants would be wildcards, which would be chosen by best overall
records, with head-to-head and then conference record as tiebreakers.

Seeding would occur as follows: Seed the teams in tiers.  1st place AQ's by
overall records with head-to-head and then conference records as tiebreakers,
followed by 2nd place AQ's, then 3rd place AQ's, then 4th place AQ's, then 
wildcards.  Split conferences will be seeded like any other conference,
that is, according to where a team finishes in the overall standings.

I believe this system would help more teams in NC compete against schools
of like size for championships.

Attached is a model of what the system might look like.  
* = non-football-playing school