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Originally Posted by Nuttyman54
Also, teams that played week 1 will be artificially seeded much lower, if the seeding calculation includes the 5 point bonus for winning that was added after week 1
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That's correct, I looked over the spreadsheet and the seeding calculation does not include the 5-point bonus for Week 1 teams while it does for Weeks 2-4 teams. This helps to explain why 217 is ranked low (in addition to all other Week 1 competitors) - they should receive 5-points for each of their wins at FLR. Taking their 8 wins in qualifications, that's 40 points boosting their 102-point seeding score up to 142 points, making their seeding average 14.2 points. Assuming a seeding average of 14.2 points would move them up to a tie for 69th place on the most recent list.
Further, as Nuttyman pointed out, the districts are not on this list. If the districts were added to this list, I'm sure you would see their number up with those top teams!