Looks like we were mis-seeded. We are now Seed 6 and play 9-5 National Press Club at 9:15 AM on Saturday July 12th. Below is the email I just recieved from the Commish:
...many apologies for the confusion: We goofed on your seedings. Atlantic Video is the No. 5 seed, and will play Team Video in its first game next Saturday. Allbritton is the No. 6 seed, and will play the National Press Club. The mix-up occurred after we misinterpreted the tiebreaker rule for teams in a cluster. Simply put, we applied a division record tiebreaker when we shouldn't have; because you didn't play each other this season, the tiebreaker needed to be your season's run differential.We've run the numbers and AV's run differential is +86, while Allbritton's is +10. Feel free to check our math. As a result, Atlantic Video needs to get the higher seed. I'll correct the post on the Web site momentarily and update the bracket as well.We've had a tough time with the clusters, but at least this doesn't cost anyone an actual playoff birth. No matter the seed, you'll all need to knock the snot out of each other at some point next weekend. I hope you didn't spend too much time this week game-planning for the wrong opponent. Again, my apologies for the confusion.
Okay, so what does that mean for us? Not much different. We still play a team we haven't faced, we still have to play at 9:15 AM, and we still have to win to keep the dream alive. The only thing that hurts is the couple of hours I put in studying the games against Team Video last year. Time to move on, here we come NPC...we are ready!
Hoagie
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At least this year when we lose to run diff, we're still in the playoffs! Go Big Red Machine!
Hoder
ain't no .14 'round here....
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