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Post by OverAndUnder on Aug 4, 2012 23:39:35 GMT -5
I'm really disgusted with teams who try to play a certain way to try to get a favorable matchup. The worst offenders in this issue are the teams who try to win all their matches by a large margin so they'll get a top seed and therefore a favorable matchup against the lowest seed. Cheaters!
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Post by Phaedrus on Aug 5, 2012 5:25:26 GMT -5
I'm really disgusted with teams who try to play a certain way to try to get a favorable matchup. The worst offenders in this issue are the teams who try to win all their matches by a large margin so they'll get a top seed and therefore a favorable matchup against the lowest seed. Cheaters! Many times the tournament setup encourages this behavior. Going to the hated football RPI, point differential is a measure of team "quality".
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Post by OverAndUnder on Aug 5, 2012 15:57:59 GMT -5
I'm really disgusted with teams who try to play a certain way to try to get a favorable matchup. The worst offenders in this issue are the teams who try to win all their matches by a large margin so they'll get a top seed and therefore a favorable matchup against the lowest seed. Cheaters! Many times the tournament setup encourages this behavior. Going to the hated football RPI, point differential is a measure of team "quality". I was being facetious. I can see I didn't use enough snark. :-) My point is that all teams are playing the best strategy to produce the best result for themselves already. One strategy is to try to win all your games convincingly to give yourself the top seed and a favorable matchup with the bottom seed. Mikegarrison comments that playing a winnable match to 5 sets to eliminate another team isn't "legitimate". Well look at the converse -- playing a losable match to a 3-set win to eliminate a team from taking your top spot is just another kind of positioning strategy. And besides, trying to preserve "legitimacy" for this tournament bracket is laughable, because the original seeding was so clearly not legitimate.
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