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Originally Posted by as5680
I still really don't get how this is worked out - in my current season under this format the three wild card teams (seeds 5, 6 and 7) all won their series in the first round. Seeds 6 and 7 had the same regular season record - the team allocated as 6 did have the better head-to-head between the two, but I'm not convinced this is being used as a tiebreaker.
In the next round, I have been given the matchups 1v6 and 5v7. It is not a major problem as the top two remaining seeds (1 and 5) have been kept apart, but I would love to know why seed 7 is not playing the top seed.
Additionally, 7 was given homefield advantage over 5 - this can easily be fixed by rescheduling the games but it should be the other way round.
All I can think of is that seed 7, having beaten 2, is taking that place in the bracket. However, with 're-order by seed prior to each round' selected, surely that should not be the case. Unless I have misunderstood what is meant by 're-order by seed prior to each round', in which case I have no idea how to get the matchups I am expecting to see!
It does only seem to be an issue when the wild-card teams win in the first round - three times now I have got unexpected match-ups and I can't figure out a pattern between the three to understand how it works.
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Were 1 and 7 from the same division? That's the only thing I can think of, but it works properly in the majors quickstart so it's unlikely that's the problem.
And a straight (NCAA-style) bracket would be 1v5 and 7v6, so it's not 7 taking 2's place in the bracket. As for home field, I don't know what's going on.