Syberite is this correct for the road to the Womans College World Series

[bullmarket]

Sixteen Regionals are played each with 4 teams. So the top 16 teams each host a regional

The winner of each 4 team regional plays the winner of the 4 team regional in their Bracket. in a Super Regional.

The host of each Super Regional is the team who is the higher ranked of the team who is their opponent in their Bracket.
(Say OU is Ranked #10 and their Super Regional opponent is Ranked #11 OU WOULD HOST THE SUPER REGIONAL. Is this correct Syberite?

Then the eight winners of each Super Regional are in the Women College World Series

Is this all correct Syberite?

Thanks

 

[Plainosooner]

That's can't happen Bull. 10 can't play 11 in the Supers, because all of the seeds add up to 17, because there are 16 seeds.

1 is in the same part of the bracket as 16
2 is in the same part of the bracket as 15.
3 is in the same part of the bracket as 14
4 is in the same part of the bracket as 13.
5 is in the same part of the bracket as 12
6 is in the same part of the bracket as 11.
7 is in the same part of the bracket as 10
8 is in the same part of the bracket as 9

If you're seeded 11, then if you win, you will only play 6 if they win, or whoever won their regional. You can't play 12 unless you both got to the WCWS in OK City.

 

[sybarite43]

Plaino's description is appropriate. Based on the current situation, I would anticipate that we will be about #10 or #11. While I think the formula needs to be changed since these rankings are not indicative of reality, we will be #10 or #11, most likely. That means that the #6 or #7 team would be opposite us in the Super-regional, assuming that they win their regional. If the #7 team loses, and we are #10, we get lucky. We would face the team that beat them, but on our home field since we would now be the higher seed. It isn't exactly something you want to count on. I think last year everyone came through the regionals. Florida lost in the Super-regionals as I remember.

I expect to face someone like Auburn, UCLA, or Texas A&M. Since A&M is nearby, we might get them on their field. They do occasionally use geography for a lower seed. We have already run-ruled UCLA on their home field, and Houston beat A&M on their home field.

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[bullmarket]

That's can't happen Bull. 10 can't play 11 in the Supers, because all of the seeds add up to 17, because there are 16 seeds.

1 is in the same part of the bracket as 16
2 is in the same part of the bracket as 15.
3 is in the same part of the bracket as 14
4 is in the same part of the bracket as 13.
5 is in the same part of the bracket as 12
6 is in the same part of the bracket as 11.
7 is in the same part of the bracket as 10
8 is in the same part of the bracket as 9

If you're seeded 11, then if you win, you will only play 6 if they win, or whoever won their regional. You can't play 12 unless you both got to the WCWS in OK City.

Lets say OU is#10 in their 4 team regional and they win their regional and then in the 4 team regional in their bracket #7 got eliminated. The winner of #7 regional say was #20.

Would OU HOST the Super Regional.playing #20?

 

[sybarite43]

Lets say OU is#10 in their 4 team regional and they win their regional and the in the 4 team regional in their bracket #7 got eliminated. The winner of #7 regional say was #20.

Would OU HOST the Super Regional.playing #20?

Yes.

There are teams that I think will lose in the regionals. But, most of them are like #15 teams that will be playing some fairly good people in their four-team regionals. Someone will get teams like Tulsa, Louisiana-Lafayette (beat Bama twice), Houston (beat A&M in College Station), Cal Poly, Mississippi, Michigan, Wichita State, or LSU in their regional.

 

[Plainosooner]

Sybarite is correct. That is exactly how it works, though it's unlike the 20th best team would be in the same regional as a 7. We wouldn't know because the only teams seeded publicly are those who host. Unless they change, they won't reveal who 17 or 20 or 25 is. They do however seed within each regional. But it is different than an overall seed.

After 9 -11, the NCAA mandated that geography come into play in such matters. Once might assume for instance, that whoever is seeded 2nd in the regional hosted by number 16, would be number 17. But that's no necessarily true. they are often a team of four or five schools that are just out of being seeded, and they go to 16's regional even if they're say 18 or 19 because they're closest geographically. It's why A&M and Tulsa have come to OU more than once in the last few years. With Tulsa at around 25, it wouldn't be surprising with OU at 11ish to end up in Norman again for the first round. Or they might call OU a 10 if A&M ends up a 7, just to keep two teams driving distance from each other, to play in the Supers. It's been done before.

But my guess is that you'll see the SEC getting a lot of, uh, consideration in the way the bracket is put together, as well as the Pac 12. OU had their chances. If they had just beaten Auburn or Washington or Arizona, all one run losses, then they'd be in great shape to host the Supers. But we didn't.

In the past when Baylor was pretty good but got screwed out of a top eight seed, they often got to go to either coast for the Supers. In women's softball, the Big XII got little consideration, except when UT was involved. They are like, "connected."

The way things are coming down, I wouldn't be surprised if Baylor, who has been in the top ten in the RPI recently, ended up not hosting even a regional.