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re: What determines whether our super regional starts on Friday or Saturday?
Posted on 6/4/12 at 1:10 pm to Weaver
Posted on 6/4/12 at 1:10 pm to Weaver
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I would guess that those regionals that are set would be on Friday - Sunday and those that aren't would be Saturday - Monday but wtf do I know. I realize it may not work out that way, just thinking of resting pitchers, etc.
This makes sense in a short term sense. What I don't understand, and why I can't seem to have this explained, is this:
When they set the top 8 seeds, there is a "ideal" bracket for the CWS set. Those 8 seeds are put into 2 brackets: 1,4,5 & 8 in Bracket I, and 2,3,6 & 7 in Bracket II. Those brackets play on either Fri/Sun or Sat/Mon. The Fri games are played by teams that start a SR on Friday; similarly, the Sat games are played by teams that start on Sat.
The question is, which group plays on Friday, and which one on Saturday? Does it change? What does that depend on? In other words, I have trouble believing that this isn't decided already, meaning we should know already what DAY (not time, not opponent) the super regional is.
I am likely incorrect in some of my assumptions, but this is my recollection of the way it is done since the SR setup came into existence.
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Posted on 6/4/12 at 1:20 pm to DrEdgeLSU
Last year, the 2,3,6,7 started Friday. Who knows what they will do this year.
Posted on 6/4/12 at 1:37 pm to DrEdgeLSU
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When they set the top 8 seeds, there is a "ideal" bracket for the CWS set. Those 8 seeds are put into 2 brackets: 1,4,5 & 8 in Bracket I, and 2,3,6 & 7 in Bracket II. Those brackets play on either Fri/Sun or Sat/Mon. The Fri games are played by teams that start a SR on Friday; similarly, the Sat games are played by teams that start on Sat.
The question is, which group plays on Friday, and which one on Saturday? Does it change? What does that depend on? In other words, I have trouble believing that this isn't decided already, meaning we should know already what DAY (not time, not opponent) the super regional is.
It's TV making the decision.
To put in football terms it is like CBS waiting till Monday to determine what game to show on Saturday at 2:30. Sure they already know that team A is playing team B and team C is playing team D. But TV wants to wait until Monday to see if team A wins the week before b/c that will set up a better game.
Only in this case TV is waiting to see who the teams actually are instead of what the ranking is.
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