Gah, another mistake. The aggregate playoff record for Pitt is 1-3(-1). Everything else is right, though. Chris Chris White <cwhite2_at_...> said: > <html><body> > > > <tt> > At long last, they are here.<BR> > <BR> > Prelim stats can be found at:<BR> > <BR> > <a href="http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/04/noda/SNEWT%20VIII/stats.html">http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/04/noda/SNEWT%20VIII/stats.html</a><BR> > <BR> > Note, there are two errors:<BR> > <BR> > 1) The Penn A-Swat B game was somehow counted twice; Penn's record<BR> > should be 9-1 and Swat A is 5-5; not 10-1 and 5-6.<BR> > <BR> > 2) Something was messed up with the "games played" part of the<BR> > individual stats; most people have 15 GP, for some reason, even though<BR> > each team played ten prelim rounds. For some even stranger reason,<BR> > however, Elliot from CMU was counted as having played *24*! games. I<BR> > don't have the computer expertise to see exactly what happened (and I<BR> > haven't looked at the scoresheets in enough detail); but I suspect<BR> > that, if nothing else, he probably should have gotten the high scorer<BR> > award. If I can find another chunk of time in the future, I'll try to<BR> > see what exactly went wrong.<BR> > <BR> > <BR> > After prelim play, the standings were as thus:<BR> > <BR> > Ceceila<BR> > <BR> > Penn A 9-1<BR> > Swat C 9-1<BR> > CMU 8-2<BR> > Maryland 7-3<BR> > Swat A 5-5<BR> > PSU B 4-6<BR> > Bucknell 4-6<BR> > Prin .B 4-6<BR> > Rut.-New 3-7<BR> > Penn C 2-8<BR> > JHU A 0-10<BR> > <BR> > <BR> > Duncan<BR> > <BR> > Virginia 10-0<BR> > Prin. A 9-1<BR> > Pitt A 8-2<BR> > Swat B 7-3<BR> > PSU A 5-5<BR> > Rut.-NB 5-5<BR> > Bryn Mawr 4-6<BR> > Penn B 3-7<BR> > JHU B 2-8<BR> > Penn D 1-9<BR> > Nova 1-9<BR> > <BR> > The top three teams in each bracket played three rounds of<BR> > cross-bracket playoffs. CMU and Pitt mutually decided not to play the<BR> > final round, seeing as it was pushing 7 PM by then. Virginia easily<BR> > won, going 13-0 on the day. There was a 3-way tie for third place<BR> > between Penn A, Princeton A, and Swat C; all three had a 9-1 prelim<BR> > record, a 2-3 record between top bracket teams, and a 10-3 record<BR> > overall; Penn was awarded second and Princeton 3rd by virtue of<BR> > head-to-head.<BR> > <BR> > Top Bracket<BR> > <BR> > Team Prelim Playoff Agg. Total<BR> > <BR> > Virginia 10-0 3-0 5-0 13-0<BR> > Penn A 9-1 1-2 2-3 10-3<BR> > Prin. A 9-1 1-2 2-3 10-3<BR> > Swat C 9-1 1-2 2-3 10-3<BR> > CMU 8-2 1-1(-1) 2-2(-1) 9-3(-1)<BR> > Pitt A 8-2 1-1(-1) 2-2(-1) 9-3(-1)<BR> > <BR> > The consolation brackets were more complicated. Originally there were<BR> > going to be two more six team playoff brackets and one final four team<BR> > bracket, but three teams- Swat B, Penn D, and Villanova, all left<BR> > after the prelims. Complicating matters, all three were *from the<BR> > same bracket!* The next bracket of six was assembled, skipping over<BR> > Swat B, and seven of the nine projected games were played; I know that<BR> > Swat A left before they played Rutgers-NB; and there is no record of<BR> > the Maryland-Bryn Mawr game.<BR> > <BR> > The final bracket was more complicated. The two Johns Hopkins teams<BR> > (which were both understaffed) combined forces to bring the total to<BR> > an even six. However, it wasn't quite even, as 4.5 of the remaining<BR> > teams were from the Cecelia bracket. This, in addition to the fact<BR> > that three of the projected games went unplayed, accounts for the wide<BR> > variation in games played and especially aggregate playoff record.<BR> > (which was total record in both prelims and playoffs against teams in<BR> > the playoff bracket). The three teams that left early ae not *in* any<BR> > bracket, but I have placed them where their record would put them. <BR> > The joint JHU playoff team has their playoff record counted for both<BR> > teams.<BR> > <BR> > Consolation brackets (and teams that left)<BR> > <BR> > Maryland 7-3 2-0 3-1 9-3<BR> > (Swat B 7-3 left after prelims 7-3)<BR> > PSU B 4-6 3-0 4-1 7-6<BR> > Swat A 5-5 1-1 2-2 6-6<BR> > Rut-NB 5-5 0-2 1-3 5-7<BR> > Bryn Mawr 4-6 1-1 1-3 5-7<BR> > PSU A 5-5 0-3 2-3 5-8<BR> > <BR> > Bucknell 4-6 1-0 5-0 5-6<BR> > Prin. 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