Seeds for next round: 1. Whiz 2. Yanks (coin flip winner over Cubs) 3. Cubs 4. Giants 5. Cards 6. Dodgers 7. Twins 8. Peppers (coin flip winner over Americans) 9. American 10. Pirates
Harold is presently working on updating the website with team names to replace the numbers.
After this next set of four games, teams will be re-seeded according to their final record of the first 13 games (including make-ups). The top four teams will play each other once for three additional games, while the bottom six play a double-elimination tournament starting July 22 -- with the top two teams advancing to the Top Tier Tournament starting on August 5.
I am curious why a coin flip was used to break the ties in the 3/4 and 8/9 seeds when there is an explicit tie breaker rule published at the bottom of the standings? Not that it's a big deal, just makes for some confusion that could have been avoided. Thanks.
Dave, Andy, and i can bet others; yes we need to get those criteria off the web site. sorry. we don't and never have used those locally.
The criteria are percentage first, and in this case since we had some teams not playing their first nine and we had a couple ties ,.... we use this method.:
Two points for a win , one for ties, total the points and divide that by the possible points . for example a 6-1-1 record becomes 12+1/16=.750. (possible points would be winning all 8 games for 2 points each and 16 points),
After this percentage the tie breaker is head to head.
After this is it best win. (beating the best teams above them in the standings).
Then worst loss, ( say if the losses in this 6-1-1 scenario by these teams was one to the Pirates the other to the Americans ...the team losing to the Pirates would be the worst loss and would get beat out in the tie breaker.
Lastly and used in both ties this year was the coin toss as all the criteria before didn't solve the standings tie. I tossed the coin , the cat witnessed it and I relayed the standings to Tim for his wonderful work on the Phase two next four games against like opponents part of our schedule.
Now we don't use runs in this formula as that can distort how we play particularly in mercy and near mercy situations. not using it also encourages the better teams to experiment with other pitchers , lineups, and defenses.
hope this helps. we in the 55's have been using this tie breaker criteria fro some time but i forget that many new players come along and that we don't cleanup our web site as well as we should sometimes. and more on that soon as we begin to unveil our new web site this summer.
