ehillema writes: > It is possible that we may adjust procedures to decrease the > likelihood of making invitations out of order of final finish within > an SCT all the way down to zero. > > This would be a big change, though, and complicated by the great > variety of formats used at the different sectionals. For instance, we > have had many instances over the years where final official standings > and overall winning percentages are quite different things, due to > playoff systems and "upsets" therein. As I said, my main concern is that the global rankings of teams from all SCTs should be consistent with the local rankings at each SCT. Making this happen would require either changing the global ranking system *or* changing the local ranking system (or both). > Look at what might have happened > in Div. 2 of the NE SCT this year. After a round-robin, NYU was 10-0 > and ranked 1st, while Yeshiva was 4-6 and ranked 8th. They went to > playoffs, with #1 playing #8 in the quarterfinals, needing to win two > of three. Yeshiva played NYU very close, winning the middle game > before losing the deciding one by 70. A 70 point swing can be made on > a single tossup/bonus sequence going the other way. Suppose that > Yeshiva had won that final game. At that point NYU, now 11-2, and > still statistically the dominant team in the field, is eliminated in > playoff quarterfinals, and could place no higher than 5th in official > standings. Yeshiva, now 6-7, is guaranteed a spot in the top > four. No, it depends on how the official standings are computed. They should be determined by NAQT's secret formula, or a new version of it, since that's what counts in the end. Let's say that according to some quirk (probably unintended) of the formula, a team with NYU's round-robin stats will be guaranteed to place at least second, while a team with Yeshiva's round-robin stats will place no higher than fourth unless it wins the tournament. Don't you think some NYU and Yeshiva players might want to know this before starting their playoff games?
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