Tournament Seeding Question

[KCHI]

I've noticed a trend in tournaments the last few years. After checking records of teams and quality of their opponents, it seems the tournament host team puts themselves in the traditional #1 seed spot, regardless of their record and schedules other games to give themselves the best chance of getting to the championship game. Is this a developing trend now? Are there other tournaments around the state that this occurs? Just wondering.

 

[WPAlum2010]

Are you referring to the LeBlond Holiday Tournament? They did and in my opinion put 3 of the 4 best teams all on the same side and ended up seeing one of them lose in the first round. I believe LeBlond does this every year though. At least the last 3 years that I've broadcasted up their they have done it that way.

 

[Eagles_Ball]

I've noticed a trend in tournaments the last few years. After checking records of teams and quality of their opponents, it seems the tournament host team puts themselves in the traditional #1 seed spot, regardless of their record and schedules other games to give themselves the best chance of getting to the championship game. Is this a developing trend now? Are there other tournaments around the state that this occurs? Just wondering.

Goes on way too much anymore. Lot of times team capsules are emailed in by coaches, seeded, and nobody sees the "voting". Miss the old days of meeting in a classroom, listening to the good teams coaches say how bad they are, the bad teams coaches talk about how good they are, then listing where everybody seeds it. Keeps it a bit more honest...Then those same guys go out and have a few barley pops.

 

[KCHI]

Are you referring to the LeBlond Holiday Tournament? They did and in my opinion put 3 of the 4 best teams all on the same side and ended up seeing one of them lose in the first round. I believe LeBlond does this every year though. At least the last 3 years that I've broadcasted up their they have done it that way.

that was just one. I understand hosting a tournament is difficult. I was just wondering if this is the case in other parts of the state.
Kearney girls bracket has Kearney #1 seed (having an un-Kearney like year) Chilli and Notre Dame de Sion could meet in the semi's and I think that could be a championship caliber contest.

 

[HoopsTournament]

I don't think the LeBlond tournament was officially seeded. Almost every other tournament that I have seen has actual seed numbers on the bracket, but LeBlond did not.

 

[justaconcernedcitizen]

I know several tournaments do it online and the coaches receive descriptions of other teams and send their seeds in after that email. It is easy in an email to seed a tournament in your favor by seeding the best team 3 or 4 and place a few teams that are below of them above them. That is done without having to look other coaches in the face. That skews the voting in my opinion. I know a lot of coaches put stock into hosts teams being higher seeds because they host and play better because of that, or at least try to. In person meetings usually line up better to what seeds actually should be, but I have seen coaches vote in seed meetings to gain for themselves favorable match-ups as well.

FYI-Stockton is the 5 seed in their tournament and had a 5-2 record at the time of their seeding (in person meeting), so they didn't really get seeded favorably in their own tournament.

 

[stjamestigerfan]

Rolla boys tournament matches a local team up with a team far away instead of seeds.

They still do an overall 1 seed but nothing more.

The girlsside does the number 1 seed over
And matchups too. I felt that the best two teams were both on the same bracket and played in the second round instead of championship round