--- In quizbowl_at_y..., James Quintong <jqsmooth_at_m...> wrote:
> Mike Keenan Employment Agency, LLC (Michigan) 50
> BATTLEPLANET!!! (Oklahoma + others) 49
> Juan Shining Moment (Maryland alums) 45 CBA points
> Tia and the TRASHmen (Minnesota) 45
> Ruben Rivera's Sporting Goods (Arizona St.) 42.5
> Wreck of the Edmund Schluessel (Mich. + others) 39
but . . .
> Funkyorangerash (Cornell + others) 43
Was the rationale for assigning teams to playoff brackets that only
the top two teams in a bracket advance? If so, it seems that teams in
the Bridges bracket got a bum deal when the two finalists ended up in
the same round-robin bracket, particularly when the third-place team
outscored the second-place teams in the other brackets, and the
fourth- through sixth-place teams were competitive with their "peers"
in the other brackets, even though they had to face off against two
juggernauts. . . .
If there's deviation from a standard win-loss record in determining
playoff seedings within a bracket, why not use it in seeding all of
the teams in simple rank order, rather than just comparing teams in
the same bracket?
--AEI