This is bid algorithm that is being used for the 2011 Open Division.  Girls teams will be open acceptance again this year. 

 

Note:
Team = School, As before, JV and Varsity only count as one team.   This is no longer school district as some school districts have more than one high school.
Each region/league in PA may only count one event as their qualifying event and each team may only attend one qualifying event.

For each qualifying event, take the number of teams at the qualifying event and divide it by the total teams at all qualifying events in PA to get Value A.  Multiply A by 16 to get B.  Take the integer portion of B and that is the size bid for that division.  If there are qualifying events that do not have a bid after this, award them 1 bid. Add all the size bids up to get C.  Subtract: 16-C to get the total # of strength bids.  Distribute these bids by listing the final standings at states last year and walking down the list: the first place team's league gets a strength bid, now remove that team from the list and repeat keeping in mind no division can have more than one strength bid.  If the automatic adding of 1 bid per qualifying event sums the total bids to over 16, then the average strength of a qualifying event is used to decide who loses bids first (weakest loses first).