Re: Seeding in tourneys

Re: Seeding in tourneys


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Posted by pinochleman41 (TD Manager) (Ranked on Team Pinochle (Gaming Safari) Ladder) on July 17, 2020 at 06:54:25 PDT:

In Reply to: Seeding in tourneys posted by tlmomca () on July 13, 2020 at 15:55:03 PDT:

I have been a TD here for 18 years, and I too have surveyed teamies playing teamies in round one. It has been my experience that I have fewer occurences ot that by using registration number for seeding.
While there is room for argument from all sides as to which form of seeding is best at reducing teamies VS teamies in round one, the fact remains that determining the seeding in a tournament is the Hosting TD's choice.
Now, I would reccomend that instead of trying to tell TD's how to seed, become an Active TD yourself and do it your way.
I will NOT dictate to any TD what form of seeding to use.

: 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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