Playoffs

Yes we are talking playoffs, folks. Its that time again. You can view the official playoff brackets on the division webpage. All of the seeds are filled in according to the final standings. Now this season the standings were a bit tough because there was a 4 way tie for second place. It took a bit of doing but the standings are correct according to tie breaker procedures. We've also now got some expanded standings for you to take a look at.

The official WAKA Tie Breaking procedures can be found in the Division Tournament Guidelines. Masterbatters, Balls and Dolls, 99 Problems and Quit yer Pitchin were all tied with 4.5 points and a 4-3-1 record. Since there were more than one team that tied the direct head to head was not factored in. Also, not all of the teams played each other (Masterbatters and Quit Yer Pitchin never played this season). That means that despite the fact that 99 Problems beat all of the other 3 teams they didn't get an advantage from that and the total runs against tie breaker came into effect. That left Masterbatters with 21 runs against in 2nd place and QYP with 30 runs against in 5th but 99 Problems and Balls and Dolls still tied with 22 each.

"If two teams remain tied after one or more teams are eliminated from the tie during any step, the tie breaker reverts to step 1 of the two-way tie format." That means that it goes back to the head to head matchup between those 2 teams and 99 Problems defeated Balls and Dolls in the regular season (how big was that last week win?).

There was also a tie for 7th place but this was an easy one since there were only 2 teams. Baller I Hardly Know Her defeated Multiple Scorgasm so we never had to look at runs against.

Don't forget that the playoffs start promptly at 10:30 but teams can show up and starting to set up at 9:30. Essentially the bottom 4 teams will have to play a buy in round. Also at 10:30 there will be a 2nd round game played between QYP and Balls and Dolls. All of the other 2nd round games will be played at 11:30.

IMPORTANT: If your team plays at 11:30 your team will be responsible for providing 3 referees for a 10:30 game and vice versa (unless your team wins a buy in round game). See Erik at the field for your exact assignments. When and if your team loses you are still responsible for providing refs for the next round of games so every team should expect to ref 2 games if you lose. If you lose at 10:30 you will have to ref at 11:30 and 12:45.

Be sure to bring your tents and grills and maybe some tailgating games to help pass the time between games or after your team is eliminated. Please be sure to pick up all of your trash.

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