Re: Explaining the SoCon Autobid (not decided yet)
Except it is horrible. Even if App got it, I'd be annoyed with the tiebreaker itself. Why would you not break a tie for 4th when it's so easy to do so? Chattanooga beat them both and Samford beat The Citadel. That's so much cleaner and makes a ton more sense than taking them as a group, something I've never heard of in any sport ever. You're rewarding a team for putting up 70 points on Western rather than how they fared against better competition. In what way is that a better solution? Furthermore, why would you not revert to a 2-team tiebreaker once the 3rd team in the 3-team tiebreaker falls out? This is all kinds of stupid.
Re: Explaining the SoCon Autobid (not decided yet)
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Edge316007
Except it is horrible. Even if App got it, I'd be annoyed with the tiebreaker itself. Why would you not break a tie for 4th when it's so easy to do so? Chattanooga beat them both and Samford beat The Citadel. That's so much cleaner and makes a ton more sense than taking them as a group, something I've never heard of in any sport ever. You're rewarding a team for putting up 70 points on Western rather than how they fared against better competition. In what way is that a better solution? Furthermore, why would you not revert to a 2-team tiebreaker once the 3rd team in the 3-team tiebreaker falls out? This is all kinds of stupid.
You're not rewarding a team for putting up 70 on Western. The tiebreaker that decided this was points ALLOWED, not points scored. So you letting Citadel score 50 hurt you.
Also, to resolve a 3 way tie, you have to fully resolve it in ONE step, not eliminate one team then fall back to head to head. That's what this does.