CWS … When did re-seeding cease and …

It ceased in 1999. And it wasn’t reseeding. The tournament wasn’t seeded before them, other than each regional being seeded 1-4 or 1-6.

patdog said:

It ceased in 1999. And it wasn’t reseeding. The tournament wasn’t seeded before them, other than each regional being seeded 1-4 or 1-6.

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Yeah about then.. About 20 years ago, I got pissed because that had put State and two other SEC teams in the same bracket. I contacted them via Email, internal message, or whatever. They told me, the bracket was the bracket, and to get screwed, (not in those words).
I moved on.

I don’t know the specific numbers of past years, but after a pretty crazy Regional round I feel like the Supers were fairly chalk and you ended up with a pretty standard Omaha 8 for what you normally see.

Four Top 8 seeds
A couple of non-top 8 hosts or two seeds from power conferences
One random “how the heck are they here” team

There are some non-traditional programs represented this year but in terms of the quality of teams, the mix isn’t as strange as it maybe seemed like was possible a week ago.

I liked the old format better too. But like anything, TV gets involved that they wanted that true championship game, where everything was re-set and not a "as needed". Then they wanted the 3-game series.

I remember looking at the bracket from 1985, after I was older, and was like holy crap there were lines going everywhere, bracket swap-overs, etc. When Texas beat us, they were essentially assured of being in the championship game. I think Miami ultimately had to beat them twice.

DAWGSANDSAINTS said:

I think it used to be a better format as well where all eight teams had a chance of playing each other instead of essentially playing two 4 team tournaments and the winners of each playing.
Not sure when all that changed.
If re-seeding was done this year and it stayed two 4 team tournaments you would have - ( I think)

1 Georgia vs
8 Troy
4 Alabama vs
5 W Virginia

2 UNC vs
7 ole miss
3 Texas vs
6 Oklahoma

Have not went back and looked how our 2021 year would have looked had this been in place.
Assuming Vandy was 1 and we would have possibly been the 4 seed ?
Tennessee maybe 2, 3 or 4 ?
NC State 6 possibly and Arizona ? 5 or 6 maybe
And Texas - maybe 2 or 3 seed and Virginia 7 ?

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It changed with the current format back in 1999. Prior to that, the 8 regional winners were seeded for the CWS (this was back in the 6-team regional days). The last CWS in that format, all three remaining SEC teams were put on the same side of the bracket (us, Florida, and LSU).

DAWGSANDSAINTS said:

I think it used to be a better format as well where all eight teams had a chance of playing each other instead of essentially playing two 4 team tournaments and the winners of each playing.
Not sure when all that changed.
If re-seeding was done this year and it stayed two 4 team tournaments you would have - ( I think)

1 Georgia vs
8 Troy
4 Alabama vs
5 W Virginia

2 UNC vs
7 ole miss
3 Texas vs
6 Oklahoma

Have not went back and looked how our 2021 year would have looked had this been in place.
Assuming Vandy was 1 and we would have possibly been the 4 seed ?
Tennessee maybe 2, 3 or 4 ?
NC State 6 possibly and Arizona ? 5 or 6 maybe
And Texas - maybe 2 or 3 seed and Virginia 7 ?

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Have you been reading WarBlogle's inane ramblings?

MSUDC11-2.0 said:

I don’t know the specific numbers of past years, but after a pretty crazy Regional round I feel like the Supers were fairly chalk and you ended up with a pretty standard Omaha 8 for what you normally see.

Four Top 8 seeds
A couple of non-top 8 hosts or two seeds from power conferences
One random “how the heck are they here” team

There are some non-traditional programs represented this year but in terms of the quality of teams, the mix isn’t as strange as it maybe seemed like was possible a week ago.

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It's not that strange but it is still pretty ridiculously overloaded on one side.

Going by RPI, which probably understates the lopsidedness, you have:
UNC at 4
Ole Miss at 16
West Virginia at 17
Troy at 35
Average 18

versus

Texas at 5
Alabama at 6
UGA at 7
Oklahoma at 24
Average 10.5

Is any other NCAA championship tournament reseeded at the eight team level? If not why should baseball be different?

The CWS hasn't been a true eight-team double elimination format since 1987. Starting in 1988, they went to the two four-team brackets with bracket winners playing each other in a single championship game. In those days, the tournament was 48 teams and there were eight six-team regionals, with each regional winner advancing to Omaha. The CWS matchups weren't made until after the regionals had concluded. In 1999, they expanded the tournament to 64 teams and made 16 four-team regionals with regional winners going to super regionals, and the scheduled super regional winners playing each other and were not reseeded. CWS format was still the same. In 2003, they changed the single championship game to a three-game series, and that's where we are today.