In this year's opening round, you have SFA and Incarnate Word with a difference in Sagarin rating of only 0.53. On the other half of the bracket, Kennesaw is rated 22.74 over Davidson.
The average Sagarin rating of the teams paired in the first round ranges from 44.82 (Sacred Heart/Holy Cross) to 64.93 (UNI/Eastern Washington)
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If you seed everyone there is then no planned regionalization. If you are going to have a tournament run the fucking thing the way you are supposed to.
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4 teams times 6 groups is 24. Is it really that hard to understand??? I'll lay it out using this year's field.
1 seeds
#1 SHSU
#2 NDSU
#3 JMU
#4 Sac St
2 seeds
#5 Villanova
#6 Montana
#7 ETSU
#8 Montana St
3 seeds
EWU
KSU
Missouri St
SDSU
4 seeds
South Dakota
SLU
UCD
UIW
5 seeds
Holy Cross
SFA
SIU
UTM
6 seeds
Davidson
FAMU
SHU
UNI
From there you regionally pair together the 3 seeds with the 6 seeds and the 4 seeds with the 5 seeds. You can then regionally pair the 3/6 matchups with the #5-#8 overall seeds and regionally pair the 4/5 matchups with the #1-#4 overall seeds. So the bracket this year could look something like this.
(5)SFA @ (4)UIW to #1 SHSU
(6)FAMU @ (3)Missouri St to #8 Montana St
(6)SHU @ (3)SDSU to #5 Villanova
(5)Holy Cross @ (4)UCD to #4 Sac St
(5)UTM @ (4)SLU to #3 JMU
(6)UNI @ (3)EWU to #6 Montana
(6)Davidson @ (3)KSU to #7 ETSU
(5)SIU @ (4)South Dakota to #2 NDSU
The bracket could actually look pretty similar to what they came up with but at least you can make it a little more balanced without having to massively "de-regionalize" it. Most years this would add maybe 2-3 more flights I'd guess.
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