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Gully
02-20-2016, 02:25 PM
Discussing tournament brackets...doesn't sound like change for next year other than a little more avoidance of early round rematches.
Rock
02-20-2016, 09:43 PM
Discussing tournament brackets...doesn't sound like change for next year other than a little more avoidance of early round rematches.

Did I hear correctly a mention of a possible impact to seeding to make early round rematch avoidance happen? Hope it doesn't become a careful what you wish for.
ndsubison1
02-21-2016, 03:25 PM
They said they would try to avoid pairing seeded teams from same conference. How about not throwing every team from same conference in same area? Why should seeding change?
A1pigskin
02-21-2016, 03:45 PM
Discussing tournament brackets...doesn't sound like change for next year other than a little more avoidance of early round rematches.

There must have been enough complaining to take another look.
Rock
02-23-2016, 12:55 PM
They said they would try to avoid pairing seeded teams from same conference. How about not throwing every team from same conference in same area? Why should seeding change?

I thought they said that seeding may be impacted by this change. May need to re-listen.

Assumption is if there is a 2/3 situation like NDSU ill state last year may use the vague rules as reasoning for seeding.

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BisonNeil
02-23-2016, 01:50 PM
I thought they said that seeding may be impacted by this change. May need to re-listen.

Assumption is if there is a 2/3 situation like NDSU ill state last year may use the vague rules as reasoning for seeding.

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What? Seriously? No longer going to use the quality loss rationale to move the auto bid for the conference down?
bisonaudit
02-23-2016, 02:27 PM
What? Seriously? No longer going to use the quality loss rationale to move the auto bid for the conference down?

I wonder if some of the conference tie-breakers aren't set up to award the auto-bid to the poorer team? It would make it more likely for the conference to secure an extra bid.
gotts
02-23-2016, 03:15 PM
I wonder if some of the conference tie-breakers aren't set up to award the auto-bid to the poorer team? It would make it more likely for the conference to secure an extra bid.

I thought one of the conferences (Southland maybe?) has one of the later tie-break criteria that it goes to the team that has gone the longest without a conference title.

ETA: http://www.anygivensaturday.com/showthread.php?121025-Conference-tie-breaker-rules-defined

This link from AGS has the info I was thinking of, but the link they provide in the post appears to be dead.