WalkingStick wrote:The Schwab wrote:I do agree that the seeding at the state tournament confused me a little bit. I could probably make the argument that Kenmare could have been the 3 seed at the tournament and Langdon/Thompson would have played in the 4 vs. 5 matchup anyway. It's very tough for me to make comparisons as I do not watch much volleyball throughout the year. I do 100% agree with you that Dickinson Trinity shouldn't have been seeded and Langdon should have been. I don't think there is much of an argument on the 1 and 2 seeds, but I think that Langdon, Thompson and Kenmare are the next 3 best teams in the tournament (I think you could make arguments for all of them to be the 3 seed.
I think this is another example of why we need something definitive to seed the tournament. Use a QRF formula, have an unbiased committee seed them (I'm not sure what this would be made up of? maybe make it the 3rd place finishers from the regional tournaments?). I do know that the answer is not secret ballots by the coaches in the tournament. I think if you are going to have a committee seed them, it needs to be an open discussion.
I personally would like to go to a power points system to seed all postseason competition like they use in SD to seed all of their tournaments.
I don't mind SD's system but I would want to tinker with it a bit so it's not like taking another state's ranking system...like we have with MN.
But at least with SD's system we would know what the criteria is. We don't with MN