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I thought I would try to figure out where we could fall in the Tourney seeding process and whod we be playing. Here's what I came up with. For some reason I thought there were more scenarios when I started. It looks like we're down to the 4, 5 or 6 seed.
4th Seed
Ohio beats Miami, Kent beats Akron, Toledo beats EMU
We hold the tie breaker over Akron (Neither beat WMU, both split with UB, but Ohio is 1-1 against Toledo, Zips are 0-1).
Next Game: vs. TBD in Quarter Finals in Cleveland.
5th Seed
Scenario 1 - Ohio beats Miami, Kent beats Akron, EMU beats Toledo
This would cause a 3 way tie between Akron Ohio and EMU. Akron would win the tie breaker on head to head winning percentage vs tied teams (3-1 for Akron, 2-1 for Ohio, 1-3 for EMU). Akron would get the 4, and we will get the 5 based on beating EMU.
Next Game: Monday vs. #12 (BSU or CMU) in Athens.*
Scenario 2 - Ohio beats Miami, Akron beats Kent
Obviously, if both Ohio and Akron win, we finish a game behind UA. Even if EMU beats Toledo, we win the tie breaker. (1-0 head to head)
Next Game: Monday vs. #12 (BSU or CMU) in Athens.*
Scenario 3 - Miami beats Ohio, Toledo beats EMU
We would finish tied with EMU, but win the head to head tie breaker.
Next Game: Monday vs. #12 (BSU or CMU) in Athens.*
6th Seed
Miami beats Ohio, EMU beats Toledo
We finish all alone in 6th place at 10-8 (only one game ahead of Miami).
Next Game: Monday vs. #11 (BSU or CMU) in Athens.*
* If Ball State beats NIU and CMU loses to WMU, they would be tied at 3-15. In this case BSU gets the 11 seed based on beating Buffalo and CMU would be 12. Otherwise CMU is 11 and BSU 12.
EDIT: The tie breaker info was in the weekly release from 3/4. (Bottom of page 3)
http://www.mac-sports.com/Portals/20/MBD30414.pdf
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| Ties in winning percentage, and thus for tournament, seeding positions shall be broken as follows:
1. Between TWO teams:
A. Head-to-head competition
B. Division Record (10 games)^
C. Winning percentage* vs. ranked conference teams (top to bottom, regardless of division, vs.
common opponents regardless of the number of times played)
D. Coin flip
2. For MULTIPLE (3 or more) team ties:
E. Total won-lost record/winning percentage* of games played among the tied teams
F. Two (2)-team tie-breaker procedure goes into effect (refer to A)
[NOTE: Once a three-team tie has been reduced to two teams, the two-team tiebreaker will go into effect.]
^ - For the purpose of determining the Division champion
* - Winning percentage is used instead of record because of situations where teams do not play each other
the same number of times. Therefore, a team that is 1-0 (1.000) would win the tiebreaker over a team
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Last Edited: 3/6/2014 10:01:37 AM by Eagle66
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