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subject: "B Bracket confusion "

Confused

May 25, 2006
1:48 PM

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How do two 4-3 teams (Outlaws and Outcast) get matched up in the 1st round while Broadlands Pub (2-5) plays Stunnaz (1-5)?

agree

May 25, 2006
1:57 PM

Good Question

May 25, 2006
2:41 PM


;	Lower records squeaking into B league playoffs should be required to earn their keep.

Commish?

May 25, 2006
4:24 PM


;	Any word from the Front Office on this one? Seems like it would make the most sense to just seed the teams by record like the A playoffs. If either of the Outs (cast or laws) had scored a few more points, they would have been in the A playoffs. Now one of them is out in the 1st round? Doesn`t make sense.

Tom - IFFL
IFFL - commissioner

May 25, 2006
4:40 PM


;	It was already posted twice here that the B brackets would not be standard pairings. We`ve done it this way before, we`ve done cross-division first round games only before, we`ve done straight seeding. The idea with the 4-slot separation seeding is to keep the first round games competitive. The B playoffs used to be called the "consolation tournament". Again, we announced twice (also before the end of the season) the way we would be seeding the B brackets and there was not a single protest reply then. Shay can elaborate more, he came up with the system way back when. TOM

dumb

May 25, 2006
5:28 PM


;	Regardless of when it was announced, its dumb.

ridiculous

May 25, 2006
6:59 PM


;	here is my solution plane and simple: just cancel all the b playoff. who gives two **s who wins that they are still worse than half the teams.lol outcast crying about they have to play outlaws wahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!instead of b playoffs make the a playoffs double elim so the teams who earned it play more and the **weed wannabes stay homw.

ridiculous idiot

May 25, 2006
7:05 PM


;	If it wasn`t for the fact that there is a B playoffs, most of the B teams would play C so they could make the playoffs. Therefore the true C teams would have no shot of playoffs. Most leagues have A, B, and C for a reason. IFFL Spring does it this way and the B teams understand that and don`t mind being outmatched during the regular season knowing that they get their own playoffs at the end.

Reg

May 25, 2006
7:41 PM


;	"ridiculous" must play for one of those teams that makes the A playoffs and loses the first game every year. You make fun of the B playoffs but one of the top four teams in the A was last years B champ. Banditos was in the B final-4 last year and they are ranked 5 in A this year. Is your team in the top 5 in A? Didn`t think so. I`m glad in the spring you get to play against A competition but in the end you know you are in the playoffs against your own level. Its a good way to know what you need to do to get better for the fall. Maybe instaed of hiding behind a keyboard taking pot shots at teams in the B playoffs you should worry about your own game coming up so you won`t be so bitter.