I don't know if anyone else has been paying attention to the tie-break scenario/cluster going on with the Southland baseball tournament, but it's gotten really strange and including some things I've never heard of. The league ended up having an unwritten bylaw that cancelled out the original ruling for a three-way tie. Here's what happened.
UNO, Nicholls, and Corpus were tied for the final 2 spots. They didn't all play each other, so that first tiebreaker is gone and goes to the highest finishing common opponent. They didn't all play #1 Sam or #2 SLU. HBU and NWST finished tied for third, not all played HBU but they all played NWST. For some reason, the language speaks that because HBU/NWST tied, they are considered one team instead of two separate teams. WHAT. Therefore, the tiebreak continues and goes to #5 UCA. Nicholls swept UCA, so they get the #7 seed. So now Corpus and UNO are remaining, and UNO swept Corpus giving them the 8th and final seed. Corpus is left out.
There were a lot of tweets from people labeling certain teams as in or eliminated, and were wrong. Goodness.
UNO, Nicholls, and Corpus were tied for the final 2 spots. They didn't all play each other, so that first tiebreaker is gone and goes to the highest finishing common opponent. They didn't all play #1 Sam or #2 SLU. HBU and NWST finished tied for third, not all played HBU but they all played NWST. For some reason, the language speaks that because HBU/NWST tied, they are considered one team instead of two separate teams. WHAT. Therefore, the tiebreak continues and goes to #5 UCA. Nicholls swept UCA, so they get the #7 seed. So now Corpus and UNO are remaining, and UNO swept Corpus giving them the 8th and final seed. Corpus is left out.
There were a lot of tweets from people labeling certain teams as in or eliminated, and were wrong. Goodness.
