Regional assessments
Pool: 26 entrants · 9 division champion slots (National footprint tier)
Divisions map
Nine U.S. divisions — click a state to open that division’s bracket for this tier (map scales with the page).
Regional footprint · playoff bracket
US-wide playoff pool for this footprint tier (up to 26 seeds). Division pages use the same tier and list up to 26 qualifiers per division from the full division snapshot.
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Playoff rules
- National pool. Up to 26 seeds: nine division winners from the National footprint tier only, plus at-large picks from the full national candidate pool (all regional qualifiers), ordered by footprint composite.
- Who advances. When review samples are available at build time, matchups can use positive vs negative review counts; otherwise winners follow footprint scores. Ties break by footprint, then seed.
This footprint tier: Regional
All activity in a single census division and at least two mappable states.
How footprint tiers are defined
National
At least two census divisions and more than 30 distinct mappable US states.
- Listings = distinct Google place_id across the country plus rows without a place_id (each row counts).
- States and divisions are derived only from rows with a mappable US state → census division.
Mid-market
At least two census divisions and not National, with either three or more states or exactly two states (multi-division gap rule).
- Closes the gap where a provider spans multiple divisions with only two states—they still land here instead of being unclassified.
Regional
All activity in a single census division and at least two mappable states.
State
More than two listings and footprint in exactly one mappable state.
Local
At most two listings (US-wide).
If there are no mappable states but more than two listings, we still assign a tier: Mid-market when there are multiple census divisions, Regional when there is exactly one division, otherwise State. Any remaining edge case is classified as Mid-market.