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Old Mon Jun 18, 2007, 10:22am
Mark Dexter Mark Dexter is offline
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Originally Posted by Scrapper1
How many divisions would you need to get a tournament with no byes? 2 divisions gives you 10 teams in the playoffs, so you'd need 6 byes. 3 divisions gives you 15 teams, so 1 team would get a bye. 4 divisions gives you 20 teams, so 12 teams would get byes, etc.
My original statement meant that you could have a setup with very few byes. As you discovered, 3 divisions would be 1 bye (and I like to look at the two division setup as having two play-in games ).

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