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Originally Posted by Rich
Or maybe teams should just play to win the game they're playing.
Washington had clinched a spot. Now someone decided "we can control who we play, too, by losing this one."
And you think that's LL's fault?
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If they don't want this to happen? Yes.
This is nothing new. I've played in many tournaments where chicken shit tie-breakers caused elimination. If you have teams there playing to win, they are going to do whatever it takes to control their destiny.
Even in JO tournaments, I've seen coaches sitting in a huddle totaling runs for/against trying to figure out if scoring more or less runs would help their seeding, not elimination.
Yeah, I would sit the starters and play the bench, and I may ask the team to not go crazy on production. But I wouldn't tell the to lose the game, just not worry about winning.