the topic is my question. I am new to tournament game. I did the women's basketball, but they don't have 'a','b' at the end of seed.
", "messages": [ { "id": "755623", "postDate": "02/25/2020 00:40:41", "content": "the topic is my question. I am new to tournament game. I did the women's basketball, but they don't have 'a','b' at the end of seed.
", "rawMarkdown": "the topic is my question. I am new to tournament game. I did the women's basketball, but they don't have 'a','b' at the end of seed.", "votes": null }, { "id": "755638", "postDate": "02/25/2020 01:13:41", "content": "I'm pretty sure those are the play-in games. In 2010 the NCAA expanded the tournament to 68 teams, so in this case the two teams that are playing to get the 11th seed before the tournament starts are represented with seed Z11a and Z11b.
\n\nSource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Four#First_Four
", "rawMarkdown": "I'm pretty sure those are the play-in games. In 2010 the NCAA expanded the tournament to 68 teams, so in this case the two teams that are playing to get the 11th seed before the tournament starts are represented with seed Z11a and Z11b. \n\nSource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Four#First_Four", "votes": null }, { "id": "755654", "postDate": "02/25/2020 01:35:37", "content": "For the most part, we can use three-character-strings to identify team seeds - W01, X16, and so on. But because there are 68 teams rather than 64, there are four seeds in the final 64 (usually about an #11 seed) that are determined by play-in games that happen on Tuesday or Wednesday of the first week, before the big days of first round games on Thursday or Friday. For each of those play-in games, the two teams are assigned the same three-character-string (like Z11) followed by an \"a\" or a \"b\". So if you see teams with Z11a and Z11b, that means they are playing each other in a play-in game to determine who will get the Z11 seed and face Z06 in the first round. The \"a\" will be the team with the lower TeamID.
", "rawMarkdown": "For the most part, we can use three-character-strings to identify team seeds - W01, X16, and so on. But because there are 68 teams rather than 64, there are four seeds in the final 64 (usually about an #11 seed) that are determined by play-in games that happen on Tuesday or Wednesday of the first week, before the big days of first round games on Thursday or Friday. For each of those play-in games, the two teams are assigned the same three-character-string (like Z11) followed by an \"a\" or a \"b\". So if you see teams with Z11a and Z11b, that means they are playing each other in a play-in game to determine who will get the Z11 seed and face Z06 in the first round. The \"a\" will be the team with the lower TeamID.", "votes": null }, { "id": "755657", "postDate": "02/25/2020 01:44:06", "content": "thank you for the explanation!
", "rawMarkdown": "thank you for the explanation!", "votes": null }, { "id": "755658", "postDate": "02/25/2020 01:44:10", "content": "thank you for the explanation!
", "rawMarkdown": "thank you for the explanation!", "votes": null } ], "comments": [ { "id": 755638, "author_name": "proselotis", "author_url": "", "post_date": "02/25/2020 01:13:41", "content": "I'm pretty sure those are the play-in games. In 2010 the NCAA expanded the tournament to 68 teams, so in this case the two teams that are playing to get the 11th seed before the tournament starts are represented with seed Z11a and Z11b.
\n\nSource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Four#First_Four
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 755658, "author_name": "worldkeeping", "author_url": "", "post_date": "02/25/2020 01:44:10", "content": "thank you for the explanation!
", "votes": null, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 755654, "author_name": "jeffsonas", "author_url": "", "post_date": "02/25/2020 01:35:37", "content": "For the most part, we can use three-character-strings to identify team seeds - W01, X16, and so on. But because there are 68 teams rather than 64, there are four seeds in the final 64 (usually about an #11 seed) that are determined by play-in games that happen on Tuesday or Wednesday of the first week, before the big days of first round games on Thursday or Friday. For each of those play-in games, the two teams are assigned the same three-character-string (like Z11) followed by an \"a\" or a \"b\". So if you see teams with Z11a and Z11b, that means they are playing each other in a play-in game to determine who will get the Z11 seed and face Z06 in the first round. The \"a\" will be the team with the lower TeamID.
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 755657, "author_name": "worldkeeping", "author_url": "", "post_date": "02/25/2020 01:44:06", "content": "thank you for the explanation!
", "votes": null, "replies": [] } ] } ], "raw_markdown_by_id": { "755623": "the topic is my question. I am new to tournament game. I did the women's basketball, but they don't have 'a','b' at the end of seed.", "755638": "I'm pretty sure those are the play-in games. In 2010 the NCAA expanded the tournament to 68 teams, so in this case the two teams that are playing to get the 11th seed before the tournament starts are represented with seed Z11a and Z11b. \n\nSource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Four#First_Four", "755654": "For the most part, we can use three-character-strings to identify team seeds - W01, X16, and so on. But because there are 68 teams rather than 64, there are four seeds in the final 64 (usually about an #11 seed) that are determined by play-in games that happen on Tuesday or Wednesday of the first week, before the big days of first round games on Thursday or Friday. For each of those play-in games, the two teams are assigned the same three-character-string (like Z11) followed by an \"a\" or a \"b\". So if you see teams with Z11a and Z11b, that means they are playing each other in a play-in game to determine who will get the Z11 seed and face Z06 in the first round. The \"a\" will be the team with the lower TeamID.", "755657": "thank you for the explanation!", "755658": "thank you for the explanation!" }, "source": "meta" }