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a further answer to fernando
Posted By: Phil Simborg In Response To: Its time to think about major changes in tournament backgammon (Phil Simborg)
Date: Sunday, 19 February 2017, at 3:11 p.m.
For many years, I was directly in charge of seeding many professional handball and racquetball tournaments as well as many State Championship amateur tournaments.
As in Backgammon, we were not always sure who really deserved to be no 2 or 4 or 7 and sometimes (except when Jacobs played Handball and Hogan played racquetball) we were not even sure about who was No. 1.
It doesn't matter that much if you get the order exactly right, so long as you spread the clear favorites apart in the brackets.
Also, seeding adds interest to the game. Everyone is interested to see who the seeds are and how they are seeded. Let's say that we have a tournament and Ed O'Lauglin doesn't get seeded (he was left off the Giant list and some tournament committee might make a mistake and forget him). Lot's of people would take notice and say it's a mistake, and then everyone will be more interested to see if Ed does well to prove them right. So even if you get the seeding wrong some times, it adds interest and excitement to the event.
Right now Akiko is the No. 3 Giant and Victor is 8. According to BMAB Victor is a better player, but he certainly has not had the tournament results that Akiko has had. Which one would you seed higher? A good case could be made for either. As long as they don't meet in the first or second round, or even the third, I don't think it matters much, but they will care if they get a higher seed, and it will make things more interesting. It might make me have a side bet which one will do better in that tournament, and if they meet in the finals or semis, it would make it more interesting.
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