Heading to a PG tourney this weekend (first visit) and just saw the pools. The number of teams in a particular pool varies between 4 and 8. Any idea what the logic behind this is? It looks like they will seed based on winning percentage so I'm guessing it does not really matter - just sort of like two 4 team pools squashed together. I'm assuming two teams could get seeded out of one of the 8 team pools.
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which tourny are you headed to?
Heading to Lakepoint for the 16u
which tourny are you headed to?
It's the 16u WWBA Memorial Day, and they have a bunch of 8-team and a bunch of 4-team pools, with no apparent rhyme or reason (it's not field related, as far as I can tell).
In my, albeit limited, past experience, the winner of each pool advances in these tournaments, and there are 12 pools here and 12 bracket teams. There are only 3 pool games per team, so in the 8-teams it's effectively two 4-team pools where there will only be one team advancing, which does seem "unfair". Things are never really going to be fair in a pool play setup where only part of the field advances, though.
Seems like given the numbers they should just have 8 8-team pools, and seed 4 wild cards to fill out the 12 teams that advance. Or 16 4-team fields and advance 16.
Lake Point or Ft Myers?
Heading to Lakepoint for the 16u
Lake Point or Ft Myers?
Everything I mentioned is for Lakepoint, FWIW. Fort Myers is playing 4-team pools, which makes sense.
Maybe the couple of extra games required to that in ATL is an issue? Doesn't really seem like a good explanation, given the number of available HS fields around here though, unless they're wed to playing the bracket games at Lakepoint (which I suppose I could understand).
Is the HS season still in swing up there or are they all done? There definitely is a ton of fields there. # yrs ago they used 40 different facilities for the July WWBA
HS playoffs are in the quarterfinal stages I believe, so only a handful of teams still playing. There are definitely enough fields around, not sure how many are available given other competing tournaments and the fact that this Memorial Day event appears to be fairly new and small. The July 17U event is much bigger, and the 16U last year was as well.
I believe the listed schedule is a mistake on the website. I will know for sure shortly. Those 8 team pools are really two 4 team pools. I believe if you check the schedule the 3 teams you play against all play each other, in other words, a 4 team pool with the winner advancing.
If I am wrong, I will post again and explain the reasoning. It just makes sense that there should be 16 pools with 16 teams advancing. Once again, my guess is we had a glitch in the way the website produces the schedule/pools?
If you look at the last four teams in pool B you'll see them listened again in pool L. Obviously there is a mistake on our website. Whatever, the problem is, it will be fixed by tomorrow.
I'm glad someone brought this up, just helps us avoid some unneeded confusion.
I was correct, it will be fixed yet tonight.
Thanks again.
