Seeding in tourneys

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Posted by tlmomca () (Ranked on Team Pinochle (Gaming Safari) Ladder) on July 13, 2020 at 15:55:03 PDT:

In a single elimination tourney who you play in round 1 is determined by the seeding of the tourney. In an 8 team tournament (there would be no byes in round 1) - the # 1 seed will play the # 8 seed (highest vs lowest). The #2 seed will play #7 (next highest vs next lowest), #3 will play #6, and #4 will play #5. So the seeding is important in determining who plays who - it also determines in our ladder who will be setting the table and choosing seats (for those of us that this matters to). The higher you are seeded the better chance you have of setting a table (and choosing seats) and if there are byes (an auto win on to the next round) the higher seed will get the byes.

Basically what happens is the higher seed team will set and play the lower seed team.

So the seeding is important. Now, in Case’s ladders there are a variety of ways the TD can set the seeding - rank, rating, registration # and random. With random seeding Case’s will randomly set the seeds. With rank and rating it will set the seeding by the rank or rating of the team (in a sense the better teams as measured by rank or rating will get the higher seed). With registration # the seed is based on when you registered for the tourney - first in gets highest seed and so forth.

Oaks performed an experiment quite a few years back to see if we got more teammies playing teammies in random tourneys vs other forms of seeding. As I recall from that TD meeting her conclusion was that we did NOT see teammies playing teammies any more often in random seeded tourneys compared to the other types of seeding.

And now I have reached the limits of my knowledge on seeding tourneys and teammies playing teammies. :)

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Re: Seeding in tourneys pinochleman41 (TD Manager) 06:54:25 PDT 7/17/20 (1)
- I am sorry you misunderstood Jim tlmomca () 06:57:37 PDT 7/17/20 (0)
Good summary and other leagues all seem to do random birdbyrd4 13:39:03 PDT 7/14/20 (0)

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: In a single elimination tourney who you play in round 1 is determined by the seeding of the tourney. In an 8 team tournament (there would be no byes in round 1) - the # 1 seed will play the # 8 seed (highest vs lowest). The #2 seed will play #7 (next highest vs next lowest), #3 will play #6, and #4 will play #5. So the seeding is important in determining who plays who - it also determines in our ladder who will be setting the table and choosing seats (for those of us that this matters to). The higher you are seeded the better chance you have of setting a table (and choosing seats) and if there are byes (an auto win on to the next round) the higher seed will get the byes. : Basically what happens is the higher seed team will set and play the lower seed team. : So the seeding is important. Now, in Case’s ladders there are a variety of ways the TD can set the seeding - rank, rating, registration # and random. With random seeding Case’s will randomly set the seeds. With rank and rating it will set the seeding by the rank or rating of the team (in a sense the better teams as measured by rank or rating will get the higher seed). With registration # the seed is based on when you registered for the tourney - first in gets highest seed and so forth. : Oaks performed an experiment quite a few years back to see if we got more teammies playing teammies in random tourneys vs other forms of seeding. As I recall from that TD meeting her conclusion was that we did NOT see teammies playing teammies any more often in random seeded tourneys compared to the other types of seeding. : And now I have reached the limits of my knowledge on seeding tourneys and teammies playing teammies. :)

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