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Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]
Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Posted on 3/17/2000 9:56 AM MST
In Reply to: Re: I think this IMPROVES chances of low ranking teams posted by Michael on 3/17/2000 9:25 AM MST:
... you can be pretty certain that the TOP 2 possibly alliances will be in the finals. But with 4 divisions....you can't be sure....
Not at all.
The same errors that sometimes prevents teams from qualifying that in some sense 'should have' also works to mix up the rankings of the teams that DO make the top 8.
So...
Assuming that the quality of the alliances is more or less equally spread between the 8 top ranked teams, then only 1/2 of the time will the 'best' two alliances will meet in the finals. The remaining times the 'best' alliance and the 'second' best alliance end up on the same side of the Elimination Tourney. In this case, the second best alliance ends up being eliminated prior to making it to the finals.
This is just the luck of the draw and one of the down sides of single elimination tournaments.
Again, it is good enough for the NCAA. We seem to live with it alright.
Joe J.
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