Postseason party

 If points are going to be used to dictate who gets into the softball and baseball playoffs as at-large teams along with their seedings, then why not just use points for the entire process.
 When a 7-17 team is in the postseason because of an automatic seed from its league, changes need to be made.
 We left an 18 win Alvarez softball team out of the postseason because of the automatic bids that go leagues.
 There are 22 teams in the softball playoffs that didn't win 18 games -- five that didn't post .500 or better records.
 Granted, some of those teams play in 'A' leagues. But some don't. Monterey missed the postseason by .009 percentage of a point in softball.
 How do you cut it like that?
 The Toreadores (14-12), who finished sixth in the Gabilan Divison, had the distinction of beating the MTAL champion and Pacific Division runner-up this year.
 And why are there byes in softball to the top three teams in each division?
 There are no byes in baseball.
 Here's one more glitch in the playoff system.
 North Salinas and Watsonville finished as co-champions of the Pacific Division in baseball.
 The Wildcatz beat North Salinas in all three meetings in league play. Yet, the Vikings are the top seed in Division I and Watsonville is No. 8 -- again based on points.
 So what good is the league title?
 Here's one proposal. If we are going to base it on points for seedings, league champions are the only automatic qualifiers. Everyone else has to qualify by points.
 Oh, one more thing. If you play in an 'A' caliber league, you can't drop down to the lowest division. I don't want to here about enrollment. There are no state playoffs in baseball or softball.