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RE: Open Thread - 2017 Baseball Season
(05-28-2017 08:02 AM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  
(05-27-2017 07:01 PM)uldn Wrote:  It's really sad to see so much rain this week messing with the games. It has hardly rained at all in Louisville the last couple of months but this week it has been a joke all week -- perfect timing (NOT). This tournament leaves a lot to be desired. It's a great ball park to play at and it helps that the Louisville field is close by to take the overflow games -- but this winner/loser format is just not conducive to interesting games. They need to find a better format for next year. There's always the chance in pod play that a random late week game may be meaningless in who moves on, but having several games that way is just terrible.

Duke coach Chris Pollard: "This has been a really fun venue. We were here a month ago and I fell in love with the city. It's been great."

The format is really weird & it does need to change. Perhaps let the two lower seeds in each pool play with the winner advancing to take on the top seed? Have a true bracket. This would give the top 4 seeds a first round bye.

The format is weird, but by design. The top teams don't want too many games that would have the potential to mess up their bullpens heading into regionals and the bottom seeds just want a chance.

Only 2 teams sat home (I think Syracuse does not field a team) and the lower seeded teams had a chance to play their way into post season.

I kind of like the format better than the previous round robin ACC tournament that did not reward the higher seeds. This year if everyone in your robin goes 1-1, then the highest seed moves on. Unfortunately it can lead to a lot of meaningless games where the outcome is predetermined -- but given it is based on the body of work over the season I am pretty happy. Also, the higher seeds kinda have a bye if you figure they have room for error where the lower seeds do not.

Bonus is that the whole tournament is 4 games max, so all of the bullpens should be ready to go for NCAAs.
05-28-2017 09:29 PM
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