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61-420: Running backs Wide receivers Defensive linemen Defensive backs Kickers Transfer list Refuse to report rookies in italics Roster updated May 10, 2016 39 Active, 0 Inactive    Win    Tie    Loss     Bye All start times were local to home team Bye (sports) In sports, a bye is the preferential status of

122-550: A 21-week regular season. In most seasons, (from 2014 to 2017 and prior to 2007), each team has two bye weeks during the 20 week 18-game regular season. When the league had only 8 teams, the league usually had no bye weeks. However between 2007 and 2013, the league had one bye per team over in two weeks in August (4 teams would have a bye during week 6 and the other 4 teams would have a bye on week 7). In Australia's National Rugby League (NRL), each team has three byes each season. With

183-457: A bye (as there are fewer rounds than there are players). FIDE specifies that "pairing-allocated" byes in their sanctioned chess tournaments may not be awarded multiple times to the same participant. Contrasting use in some single-elimination brackets, the byes are to be allocated to the lowest-rated eligible player in the pool. Kansas State High School Activities Association The Kansas State High School Activities Association ( KSHSAA )

244-420: A bye in each round when there are an odd number of competitors, as it is impossible for all competitors to play in the same round. However, over the whole tournament, each plays the same number of games as well as sitting out for the same number of rounds. The "Berger Tables" used by FIDE for chess tournaments, provide pairings for even numbered pools and simply state that "Where there is an odd number of players,

305-446: A bye to the second round, as it is generally seen as an advantage to be assured entry into a later round. In the NFL playoffs , for example, as of 2020 , the division-leader with the best record in each conference is given a bye to the second round. The Canadian Football League (CFL) also grants a bye to its two division winners, directly to the division finals as four other teams compete in

366-520: A bye week the next season through 2020 . Since 2021 , the season is 18 weeks long with a bye week and an additional 17th game. Between 1999 and 2001 , the NFL had an odd number of teams (31) as a result of the Cleveland Browns re-entering the league . Each week during these three seasons featured at least one team with its bye week, but the 2001 season also added an additional impromptu league-wide bye

427-870: A one-year contract; the Coliseum has since been renovated and no longer hosts athletic events. The 2010 5A and 6A state wrestling tournaments were held at the Intrust Bank Arena . The 2011 6A and 5A state championships were moved to the Hartman Arena in Park City, Kansas , and have continued there since. Kansas held its first girls wrestling championships in 2020 at Salina. The next year, girls were split into two divisions, with Classes 5A and 6A at Park City and Classes 1A through 4A at Salina. In 2024, Park City and Salina each hosted one girls tournament and two boys tournaments over three days. Due to Kansas's cold climate in

488-424: A player or team that is automatically advanced to the next round of a tournament without having to play an opponent in an early round. In knockout (elimination) tournaments , byes may be assigned either to reward the highest ranked participant(s), or randomly, to make a working bracket if the number of participants is not a power of two (e.g. 16 or 32). In round-robin tournaments , usually one competitor gets

549-411: A second round with five teams, meaning only two matches could occur. Thus, if the number of participants is not a power of two (e.g. 16 or 32), to make a working bracket byes are provided to automatically move certain participants into a later round without requiring them to compete in an earlier one. When participants are ranked, participants with the highest ranking going into the tournament are given

610-411: A semi-final week. In other tournaments where teams are unranked, random draw may be used to determine the byes. The number of teams offered a bye is generally designed to ensure that the next round consists of a power-of-two number of teams so the tournament can proceed as a simple single-elimination tournament from that round onward. If the byes are all single first-round byes into the second round of

671-620: A small voluntary group of fewer than 50 schools and grew to more than 500 schools by the 1920s. Out of necessity, the member schools adopted eligibility and participation rules and established authority for a Board of Control to assess penalties against schools for violations. In 1927 the Board of Control employed the first full-time Executive Secretary. To date, six individuals have served as executive director. KSHSAA divides schools based upon enrollment of grades 9, 10, 11 and 12 for competition and state and regional championships. The largest 32 schools in

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732-503: A team having a "bye week" or a "second bye" if that team is playing an especially poor team, and is all but assured of a win. Ever since the NFL started Thursday Night Football, teams who play on a Thursday night are sometimes referred to having a "mini bye" until their next game, usually being about 10 - 11 days away. Traditionally, the CFL has had nine teams and required bye weeks. Beginning 2018, each team has three bye weeks and 18 games over

793-475: A team which has a bye is awarded a win. In the Provincial Championships of Gaelic football , some teams receive a bye due to the irregular number of teams competing in each province. The different numbers resulted in different byes alignments in each Provincial Championship. For example, below is an assessment of the 2012 Provincial Championships, and their use of the "bye". Seven teams contested

854-508: A tournament, the number of byes required is the difference between the number of teams and the next-highest power of two. For example, a 12-team tournament will require four byes (16−12) to ensure that instead of six teams in the second round, eight advance (as the four byes avoid two of the four teams being eliminated). In postseason tournaments sponsored by the Kansas State High School Activities Association ,

915-432: A weakened side. On the competition ladder, teams are typically awarded two points (equivalent to a win) during their bye week. The Australian Football League , which comprises an even number of clubs, gives each club a bye week in mid-season , as well as a bye the week before the finals . In 1915 , 1919 to 1924 , 1942 and 1943 , 1991 to 1994 and 2011 , when there were an odd number of clubs competing, each club

976-578: Is at Dodge City and the 1A-Division II tournament is at Barton Community College in Great Bend . State championships for baseball and softball are held at the same time as the track championship, usually at community colleges or large recreational fields, although some championships have been held at Lawrence–Dumont Stadium in Wichita, home of the National Baseball Congress tournament and

1037-463: Is placed on the team's schedule, usually falling between Week 4 and Week 12 inclusive. During the 1960 and 1966 seasons, the league had an odd number of teams due to expansion. Each week during those seasons, one team had a bye, including one team each in the first and last week of the season: thus, because they had to play all their games with no break in the middle, those two teams effectively had no byes. The American Football League (which at

1098-550: Is the Kansas State track and field championships, which are held the weekend before Memorial Day at Cessna Stadium on the campus of Wichita State University . The meet, which features athletes from schools in all six classes, is one of the nation's largest high school meet, with more than 3,000 athletes participating. The state track meet hosted its 124th competition in 2024. Current KSHSAA Executive Director Bill Faflick, formerly athletic director for Wichita Public Schools, holds

1159-506: Is the organization which oversees interscholastic competition in the U.S. state of Kansas at the high-school level. It oversees both athletic and non-athletic competition, and sponsors championships in several sports and activities. The Kansas State High School Activities Association was formed in 1937 and incorporated in 1956. As early as 1910, Kansas schools organized the statewide Debate League and Athletic Association governed by high school principals. The Athletic Association started as

1220-429: The 2012 Connacht Senior Football Championship , so a quarter-final was not played by Mayo . Mayo therefore advanced directly to the semi-final to await the winner of the game between Leitrim and London . Eleven teams contested the 2012 Leinster Senior Football Championship , so five teams were given first round byes. Three teams ( Carlow , Dublin and Wexford ) played winners of the three preliminary matches, while

1281-530: The American Association of Independent Professional Baseball 's Wichita Wingnuts , as well as Hoglund Ballpark at KU in Lawrence. The 2011 Class 6A tournament was hosted by KU, and the 5A tournament was hosted by Wichita State at Eck Stadium . State championships for wrestling are held in late February every year. Up until 2005, classes 6, 5, and 4A held separate but concurrently running tournaments at

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1342-706: The CAA and Sun Belt in 2023, as well as the American in 2024, as each expanded beyond 12 teams. Various other conferences like the OVC offer "double byes" to the semifinals for their top two teams, while the WCC offers "triple byes" to their top two teams. While not yet confirmed, the ACC are likely to adopt "triple byes" starting in 2025, as membership for the conference will expand beyond 16 teams. In Esports , "double byes" are most commonly seen during

1403-611: The ESL Pro League event for the Counter-Strike series of games, awarded to the teams who won each of the groups during the group stage. "Triple byes" are currently used for China 's professional League of Legends league, known as the LPL , and are awarded to the top two teams during a split's regular season. Up until 2020, they were also used for South Korea 's LCK , with the top team in their split's regular season automatically making

1464-484: The National Football League (NFL). In a standard single-elimination tournament , each round has half the number of teams of the preceding round. Thus the finals will have two, the semi-finals will have four, the quarter-finals will have eight, etc. Thus tournaments with competitors numbering a power of two can have a standard bracket in which all teams are paired up with the loser of each match eliminated and

1525-493: The 16 biggest 5A schools to jump to 6A. The idea is opposed by schools in the state's three major metropolitan areas (Kansas City, Topeka and Wichita), since the vast majority of 5A and 6A schools are in those areas. Of the 36 Class 6A schools in 2023-24, 16 were located in Johnson County , the state's most populous county with approximately 21 percent of Kansas's population. There are currently 40 leagues that are accepted by

1586-579: The 6-man championship is at Dodge City . Kansas is one of the few states, especially in the Midwest , that holds state football championship games at different sites. State championships in Illinois , Indiana , Iowa , Michigan , Minnesota , Nebraska , North Dakota , Ohio , South Dakota , and Wisconsin are held at a single central location. Missouri holds its title games at the same site on two separate weekends. The state basketball championships are held

1647-495: The 64 schools in class 4A voted to split into two divisions for volleyball, baseball, basketball, softball, and football. Starting with the 2018–19 school year, Classes 6A, 5A and 4A consist of 36 schools each. Classes 3A and 2A continue to have 64 schools each, while the remaining schools will be in 1A. The two-division format which currently exists in 1A for basketball, scholars bowl and volleyball, and in 4A for baseball, basketball, softball and volleyball, were eliminated; however,

1708-601: The Final as a result. In certain tournaments, the byes are somewhat disguised. When more teams are given first-round byes than actually compete in the first round, these first games may be referred to as "play-in" games and might not be a formally labelled as a tournament round. From 2012 to 2019 and 2021, the Major League Baseball playoffs has included ten teams consisting of six division winners and four wild card teams (the top-ranked non-division-winners). The first round of

1769-697: The Kansas Coliseum in Wichita, Kansas , while 3-2-1A held their tournament at Gross Memorial Coliseum in Hays . After that year, KSHSAA began looking for alternative sites for the classes to hold their tournaments for a number of reasons, including remodeling which was to begin on the Coliseum in the following years. In 2006, 4A left 5A and 6A and held its own tournament at the Bicentennial Center in Salina, Kansas , while

1830-513: The competition expanding to an odd number of teams from the 2023 NRL season , one club is required to have a bye each round. During the representative period of the season (such as the State of Origin ), multiple byes are scheduled to the clubs that are expected to have the most players involved in the representative match, in the round preceding the representative fixture, to allow those clubs to sufficiently rest those players and prevent them from fielding

1891-400: The discrepancy between the classification numbers is quite large. For the 2008–09 school year, the largest Class 4A school had more than 2.5 times the number of students as the smallest school in the classification. It has been suggested by many Kansas High School supporters (most specifically in basketball) that 5A and 6A should combine to form one 64 team classification. Other plans call for

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1952-452: The division winners. The FA Cup also has certain teams compete in up to 6 preliminary rounds to qualify for the first round "proper". Another example is the NCAA basketball tournament , which since 2011 has had 68 teams, effectively granting 60 byes, while eight teams compete in the "First Four" games for remaining four spots in the round of 64. From 2011 to 2015, the "First Four" was considered

2013-410: The final "Super Six". In each of these nine sextets, each team competes during four of six "rotations" with the other two as byes – scheduled before the uneven bars and the floor exercise. For example, Semifinal II of the 2018 championships operated as follows In a Swiss-system tournament with an odd number of players, one player gets a bye in each round, but not all players will get

2074-405: The first round; the round of 64, played on Thursday and Friday, was called the "second round"; the round of 32 was then called the "third round", consisting of games played on Saturday and Sunday. In 2016, the naming reverted to the round of 64 being the "first round" once again, and the round of 32 being the "second round", though the play-in round and all eight of those teams are officially part of

2135-441: The highest number counts as a bye." Similar to the round-robin context, in league sports with weekly regular-season play such as gridiron football or rugby , a team not scheduled to play on a given week or fixture (competition period) can be said to be on its "bye week". Byes are necessary if there is an odd number of teams, but may also be used with an even number of teams, for example to provide rest breaks, as has been done in

2196-406: The ladder. This is different from a double elimination format, in which a team has to lose both in the tournament and the repechage to be eliminated. The A-League Men also had bye rounds in the 2019-20 season and the 2024-25 season due to an odd amount of teams being in the competition after expanding the amount of teams in the league. The top two placed regular season teams earn a bye into

2257-422: The league's top two seeds, while the next two seeds got first-round byes for their playoffs . In NCAA Division I basketball, the 2009 Big East men's basketball tournament introduced "double byes", as the conference invited all 16 members to participate for the first time (previously only the top twelve were invited). To limit the number of games each round to four, the four highest seeded teams were advanced to

2318-461: The other classes stayed at their respective sites. In the 2007–08 season, each of the 4 classes competed in 4 separate facilities, as the Coliseum was not available. 3-2-1A and 4A remained in Hays and Salina respectively, while 6A moved to Charles Koch Arena at Wichita State University and 5A moved to Hutchinson High School . The 2009 6A and 5A championships returned to the Kansas Coliseum, but only for

2379-410: The other two played each other in the quarter-finals without playing a game in the preliminary round. Six teams contested the 2012 Munster Senior Football Championship , so two teams ( Clare and Cork ) were permitted to advance to the semi-finals without playing a game in the quarter-finals. Nine teams contested the 2012 Ulster Senior Football Championship , so only Cavan and Donegal played in

2440-468: The playoffs consists two wild-card games : single-game matches in which the four wild-card teams are reduced to two. The winners move on to the Divisional series with the six division winners for an eight-team, three-round tournament. Although this is billed as adding two extra "one-game showdowns" to the post-season, it could also be viewed as adding a fourth round to the ten-team tournament with six byes for

2501-559: The playoffs. In 2002, the top two teams in each 11-man district began to qualify for the playoffs; district runners-up were added to the playoff brackets for 8-man in 2004. In 2016, districts were abolished in Classes 5A and 6A. In those classifications, teams now schedule the first eight games on their own, with the ninth week acting as the first week of the playoffs. Teams are seeded onto the bracket based upon overall record and divided into two groups of 16 based upon geography. Beginning in 2018

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2562-798: The position of Meet Director and has been widely praised for his direction of the meet. All state football championship games are held the Saturday after Thanksgiving , ensuring the football season ends before December 1. The games are held at various sites across the state, with current sites including Fort Hays State University in Hays , Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg , and Hutchinson Community College in Hutchinson , as well as high school stadiums in Salina and Topeka . The eight-man championships have been held at Fischer Field in Newton since 2006, while

2623-399: The preliminary round, while the other seven advanced via bye to the quarter-finals without playing a game in the preliminary round. While less common, byes can be offered for multiple rounds (e.g. a "double bye" directly into the third round), or starting in a later round (e.g. the top-ranked team in the first round is given a bye straight to the third round). A bye granted in a later round of

2684-548: The remaining 11-man schools competing in 1A. This expanded the number of 1A schools from 28 in 2020 and 2021 to 42 in 2022 and 2023. Additionally, the KSHSAA began to sponsor 6-man football in 2022 for schools with 55 students or fewer in grades 9-11 at the time of reclassification. The KSHSAA did not sponsor state championship playoffs for football until 1969. District play was introduced to determine playoff participants in 1981. From 1981 through 2001, only district champions advanced to

2745-408: The remaining schools (43 for 2010 and 2011; 41 for 2012 and 2013) in 2-1A. In eight-man football, there are two divisions of roughly equal size, with 105 schools scheduled to compete in 8-man for the 2010 and 2011 seasons, decreasing to 104 for 2012 and 2013 due to consolidation in many rural towns. Beginning in 2018, Classes 6A, 5A and 4A will have 32 schools in each classification for football, with

2806-642: The same format was adopted in Class 4A. Schools form leagues to compete against one another, and participation in a particular league is voluntary. Most schools in a league are located within a close geographic range. The most notable example is in Wichita , where the nine high schools within the city limits form the Greater Wichita Athletic League (GWAL, more commonly known as the City League). However, due to sparse population in western Kansas, schools in

2867-432: The same league are often separated by distances of more than 100 miles, and in a few cases, schools are almost 200 miles apart. In some sports and activities where not all small schools may field a team, classifications are combined for purposes of state championships. For example, in policy debate, there are state championships for 6A, 5A, 4A, and 3-2-1A combined. Basketball: Football: The association's largest event

2928-457: The school. KSHSAA classifies its activities into athletic and non-athletic events. KSHSAA has been criticized for its 6A-1A format. Similar sized states, including neighboring Missouri do not have as many classifications, but have more total schools. This over-classification has been deemed a "watered down effect". Many rural schools argue the current classification structure favors schools in larger cities, especially in Classes 5A and 4A, where

2989-483: The second week of March, with girls and boys competition taking place at the same time. In 2011, the 6A tournament moved to Charles Koch Arena on the campus of Wichita State University , with Emporia taking over the Class 1A-Division I tournament. The 1A-Division II tournament remained at Hays. Emporia currently hosts the Class 5A tournament, with 6A,. 4A, 3A and 2A remaining at Wichita, Salina, Hutchinson and Manhattan, respectively. The 1A-Division I state tournament

3050-486: The semi finals of the A League Finals . In a variation of the round-robin case, at certain high-level competitions in artistic gymnastics , teams cycle through the apparatuses in an "Olympic Order" with scheduled byes in between. As an example, the NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships has 36 teams with six teams apiece at six regional sites, with 12 advancing to two semifinal rounds of six that decide participants for

3111-482: The state are class 6A, the next largest 32 become 5A, the next 64 become 4A, 3A, and 2A respectively and the remaining schools become class 1A. These classes are re-evaluated every year for all activities except football, with new classifications announced in September after the start of the school year. Ninth grade students were not counted toward the annual classification totals from 1967 to 1968 through 2010–11. In 2013,

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3172-660: The third round of competition, the 5th-8th seeded teams given byes to the second round, and the bottom eight competed the first day. Due to the realignment of major conferences , "double byes" were no longer needed by the Big East after 2013, but were added by the Southeastern Conference in 2013 , the Atlantic Coast and Atlantic 10 conferences in 2014, the Big Ten in 2015 , and after another round of conference realignment ,

3233-653: The time was a completely separate league, but later became the American Football Conference ) also had an odd number of teams in 1966 and 1967 following the addition of the Miami Dolphins , leaving each team with two bye weeks. The NFL returned to the use of the bye week in 1990 so as to extend the 16-game regular season schedule to span 17 weeks to increase the number of viewable games for television contracts. The 1993 season spanned 18 weeks with each team having 2 bye weeks; it went back to 17 weeks with

3294-643: The tournament eliminates the need for two byes in the previous round. In the English FA Cup , the football clubs in the top two league divisions receive two-round byes and enter in the third round "proper" (of eight); the two next-highest divisions' teams will have entered in the first round. Another example is the UEFA Europa League , where teams from the highest-ranked nations enter the group stage directly without having to go through qualification. The WNBA , from 2016 to 2021, had granted double byes to

3355-408: The tournament. Certain professional rugby and gridiron football leagues use the term "bye week" for any week during the regular season in which a team does not play a game. (School teams may also have non-competing weeks, but these are scheduled by individual schools/conferences and more commonly termed "open dates" or "idle weeks".) Each NFL team has one "bye week" during a normal season; this

3416-426: The two-division format in 4A eliminated. Classes 3A and 2A will have 48 schools each, and Class 1A will have the remaining 11-man football playing schools (31 in 2018 and 2019). 8-man Division I will be limited to 48 schools, with the remainder in 8-man Division II. Football classifications were revamped again in 2022. Classes 6A, 5A and 4A remained unchanged, but 3A and 2A were reduced from 48 schools each to 40, with

3477-593: The two-division structure in 1A was reinstated by a vote of 1A members for the 2020-21 school year. Football is evaluated biannually based only upon enrollment for grades 9, 10, and 11, with classifications for the next two seasons announced in October of an odd-numbered year. Schools with 100 or fewer students in grades 9-11 have the option to play Eight-man football instead of the traditional 11-man game. In 11-man football, there are five classes (6A, 5A, 4A, 3A, 2-1A), with 32 schools in 6A and 5A, 64 schools in 4A and 3A, and

3538-581: The weekend after the September 11 attacks . The league returned to having an even number of teams (32) in 2002 with the addition of the Houston Texans , and implemented the current bye week system. In the rare case of a game postponement that cannot be made up within the same week, the NFL may revise bye weeks assignments in order to reschedule the delayed game, making the postponement week those teams' new "bye week": The media may also sarcastically refer to

3599-405: The winner moving on to the next round until only one champion remains. However, if the number of teams is not a power of two, a simple elimination tournament would eventually produce a round with an odd number of teams (if the number is not odd to start with). For example, a tournament of nine teams could only have four matches in the first round, while a simple tournament of ten teams would produce

3660-413: The winter, the championships for golf , tennis , and soccer are split. Girls compete in golf and tennis in the fall and soccer in the spring, while boys compete in soccer in the fall and golf and tennis in the spring. Boys' golf teams may compete in grass green (traditional) or sand green competition. Girls who attend schools without golf, tennis, and soccer teams are allowed to play on the boys' teams at

3721-549: Was given two byes. In both leagues, and under many other professional and amateur sports leagues in Australia, higher placed teams do not earn byes during finals , but instead the opportunity not to be eliminated by losing their first-round match (also called a double chance). This practice is common in Australia, but it is not used in most other countries, to earn an easier passage to the Grand Final as reward for finishing higher on

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