Replies: 13
| visibility 1
|
Orange Blooded [∞]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 11552
Joined: 11/30/95
|
New Format for 2007 ACC Baseball Championship Announced
May 3, 2007, 10:34 AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [7404]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 15353
Joined: 2/2/01
|
dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb(not you Crump, the format)***
May 3, 2007, 10:50 AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [8957]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 10138
Joined: 9/24/00
|
didn't I hear about this last summer?***
May 3, 2007, 10:51 AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [7404]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 15353
Joined: 2/2/01
|
yes-- this is just a reminder of how dumb the new format is***
May 3, 2007, 10:52 AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [8957]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 10138
Joined: 9/24/00
|
Honestly, I don't see anything wrong with it. I've never
May 3, 2007, 10:54 AM
|
|
liked a 5th or 6th starter in the Championship game. All in all, it doesn't matter much to me.
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [7404]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 15353
Joined: 2/2/01
|
the use of a tiebreaker of any form to determine a
May 3, 2007, 10:59 AM
|
|
tournament championship is ridiculous--- and to your point- since when are 5th and 6th starters not part of a team? If this is the route they are going, then they need to eliminate the tournament and just add an 11th conf. series or eliminate 1 series and start the tourney earlier to allow better spacing of the games.
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [8957]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 10138
Joined: 9/24/00
|
I agree about the tiebreaker stuff. To be devil's advocate
May 3, 2007, 11:13 AM
|
|
what if Sean Clark had given up 9 runs in a loss instead of winning. He wasn't part of the team per se until we ran out of pitchers in the ACC tournament. Most would gripe about having to use so many pitchers and increasing risk of injuries right before regionals. I wouldn't mind the 11th conf. series and just crown a regular seasono ACC champ. It's kind of catch-22. The format isn't popular and has crappy tiebreakers, the other format kills teams with only 4 or less legit starters, etc.
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [29017]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 36091
Joined: 8/28/00
|
I would 100% be for an 11th series
May 3, 2007, 11:22 AM
|
|
And no ACC tourney
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [29017]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 36091
Joined: 8/28/00
|
Another case of overthinking a problem
May 3, 2007, 10:55 AM
|
|
Or more accurately, creating a problem where there is none, and then overthinking it.
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [64443]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 88921
Joined: 3/27/01
|
Creating a problem where there was none is exactly right
May 3, 2007, 11:16 AM
|
|
If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it.
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [8865]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 5025
Joined: 11/17/99
|
I actually like the format
May 3, 2007, 11:29 AM
|
|
You won't have two teams playing a three game series just to decide who goes to the championship game, and you won't have a situation in which the number 1 overall seed is the team still playing at 2AM on the night before the championship game.
The tie-breaker comes into play only in the situation in which 3 teams all go 2-1 in pool play, and then the tie goes to the team that was the best team over the course of a 30 game regular season (by putting the odd seeds in one pool and the evens in the other, you have minimized the effect of interim tiebreakers on that outcome).
The format gives all 8 teams invited an RPI boost right before the tourney (not necessarily so in the old format). It gives the fans that actually attend the tourney - and by proxy the television crews that cover it - a set schedule of games more than a week in advance. And it saves your pitching staff from pitching 45 to 54 innings in a 3-day period, 5 days prior to the only weekend that matters - Regionals.
To me, this is a positive.
|
|
|
|
|
Follower [162]
TigerPulse: 78%
Posts: 600
Joined: 4/20/00
|
I loved the old format: the team with the best pitchers wins
May 3, 2007, 11:30 AM
|
|
Nothing showed who had the manliest pitchers like the conference tournament. If you didn't have enough good pitchers, you better score touchdowns. Even the regionals and CWS didn't reward good pitching like the conference tournament did (Although, almost always, the team with the best pitchers wins those tournaments as well).
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1851]
TigerPulse: 84%
Posts: 2646
Joined: 11/30/98
|
Tournament = Something to do until Regionals Start
May 3, 2007, 1:29 PM
|
|
I never was one to much care about the tourney and as such only attended one in my son's four years. My theory is to get out of them healthy, rested, and ready for the next weekend.
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1631]
TigerPulse: 91%
Posts: 2404
Joined: 1/6/00
|
Why is Swofford still the commissioner? Idiotic******
May 3, 2007, 1:32 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
Replies: 13
| visibility 1
|
|
|