Playoff Seeding Controversy!

WatchBlog here. Well, the Commish, of course, did not agree with WatchBlog's playoff calculations, but since he showed his work, WatchBlog will too:

Note that while the teams getting in are the same, the seeding is different from the Commish's. WatchBlog has a different (read that: better) system for breaking multi-team ties. WatchBlog begins with all 5 teams, then advances the team with the best record against the other tied teams, and then removes that team from the field, and recalculates with the remaining 4, and so on, until all teams are seeded. Also, WatchBlog counts every win and loss, regardless of whether the teams played multiple times. In WatchBlog's system, all that matters is winning percentage, and whereas the Commish would say that 2-1-1 is the same as 3-2, it is not. One results in a .625 winning percentage, as the other results in a .600 winning percentage.  Count all the games Commish!

But ultimately, none of that matters. Even under the Commish's flawed system, the Battle Ostriches 2-1 (.667) and MotherBoy 2-1-1 (.625) have different winning percentages, with the Ostriches being higher. The Ostriches also won the head to head, and had higher points. Despite all that, MotherBoy is listed as the 5 seed, and the Ostriches, 6. Not sure how the Commish managed to seed his team ahead of the Ostriches, but I'm sure he had a really good reason. WatchBlog can't wait to hear it. Below is how WatchBlog figured the Playoff seedings:

	overall record	vs teams 4-8	pct.	vs teams 5-8	pct.	vs teams 6-8	pct.	vs teams 7-8	pct.
⁴Gamers	7 - 6	3 – 1	0.750	xx	xx	xx	xx	xx	xx
⁵BattleOstriches	7 - 6	2 – 1	0.667	2 – 0	1.000	xx	xx	xx	xx
⁶MotherBoy	7 - 6	4 – 2	0.667	3 – 2	0.600	3 – 1	0.750	xx	xx
⁷StJohn	7 - 6	2 – 4	0.500	2 – 3	0.400	2 – 2	0.500	2 – 0	1.000
⁸Juggernauts	7 - 6	1 – 4	0.200	1 – 3	0.250	1 – 3	0.250	0 – 2	0.000

Looks like the Commish has some 'splaining to do.

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