Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Double Elimination Heat - overview

EDIT: Teams will be seeded based on weighted rating.
Rookie teams will be seeded based on when they signed up; ties in 2008 finishes will be broken in the same manner.
Format could cover the entire season.

Round 1: Races 1-4, 36 teams; seeds 15-50
Round 2: Races 5-8, 50 teams; seeds 1-14 receive Round 1 bye; nine eliminated from losers' heat
Round 3: Races 9-12, 41 teams; 12 eliminated from losers heat
Round 4: Races 13-15, 29 teams; 11 eliminated from losers heat
Round 5: Races 16-18, 16 teams; 7 eliminated from losers heat
Round 6: Races 19-21, 11 teams; 3 eliminated from losers heat
Round 7: Races 22-24, 8 teams; 3 eliminated from losers heat
Round 8: Races 25-27, 5 teams; 2 eliminated from losers heat

Round 9: Races 28-30, 3 teams; 1 eliminated from losers heat
Round 10: Final, Races 31-33, 2 teams

Round 11: Final, if necessary, Races 34-36, 2 teams

1 comment:

Dave said...

That should be based on weighted rating instead of Yahoo finish. I'll edit the post later today.