Need help

[Whowefoolin]

How do you figure out a double-elimination for 7 team tourney.

Trying to help out a buddy. Is there any way without having a bye? And how do you do the bye?

Thanx in advance

[Roger Greene]

Someone gets a bye the first round. If you can't place the teams, then they must draw for placements.

The first round would go like this.

Top bracket: Game#1 should be Team#5 vs Team #4. Team #1 gets bye.

Bottom bracket: Game #2 should be Team #3 vs Team #6. Game #4 should be Team #7 vs Team #2.

Round #2 should be: Game #4=Team #1 plays winner of Game #1. Game #5 should be winner of game #2 vs winner of Game #3.

Round #3 should be: Game #6 = winner of Game#4 vs winner of Game #5.

Round #4 would be championship game with winner of Game #6 playing team comming out of loser's bracket. Winner's bracket must be beat twice to lose tournament.

To draw the loser's bracket, just cross the teams so that they are not playing the same team they just played.

You can get someone with software to print out a nice tournment schedule and bracket.

You might consider a Round Robin or Pool play for placement and then a single elimination tournament. That is the way most baseball tournaments in my area are played. The double elimination format is used in softball.

Roger Greene

[Edited by Roger Greene on Nov 21st, 2002 at 10:23 PM]

[bluezebra]

Who:

http://www.littleleague.org/tournaments/llbbrackets.pdf

http://www.georgiavolleyball.com/resources/brackets.htm

Bob

[spillguy]

Originally posted by Whowefoolin
And how do you do the bye?

If the teams are ranked, typically the bye goes to the highest ranked team. If unranked, we place numbers in the slots (1-7) with 1 being the bye slot. Mangers pick numbers from a hat. Seems fair to most since there is a "second chance" bracket to help justify the situation where the two highest ranked teams end up playing each other in round one.

spillguy

[dani]

Isn't this an umpire section?

[GarthB]

Dani asked: "Isn't this an umpire section?"


Well, let's think about it. The subtitle of this forum is Baseball. No mention of coaches, players, fans or umpires.

Then again, the main title of this site is Official Forum. That might lead some to believe it is for "officials" as in referees, umpires, etc. And it might lead some others to believe that it is "official" as in authoritative or sponsored.

Certainly since its inception coaches and fans have posted questions along side the posts made by umpires. If the traffic was so heavy that non-umpire posts were getting in the way I suppose there could be a concern. But since the last previous post prior to yours was made about two weeks ago, I don't think that is an issue.

So, is this an umpire "section?" Probably. Does anyone really care? They shouldn't.