- Dec 20, 2012
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Some tournaments around here will seed teams in separate brackets after pool play and you will play teams that are of similar skill level (for example, there is a gold, silver, and bronze bracket). This is the best of both worlds since you get a chance to "play up" against better teams in pool play but are placed (based on pool play record) in the appropriate bracket during single or double elimination.
This isn't a sure fire way to separate talent levels either. Seen in pool play where 3 of the best teams in the tournament were in the same 4 team pool. 2 teams go to Gold bracket, 2 to Silver. The 2 that went to Gold bracket finished 1st and 2nd. The 3rd team that went to Silver won it with it's smallest margin if victory was 15 runs. So the associations need a way to rank teams for state or national tournaments. But with kids jumping from team to team and teams playing in multiple assoc. sponsored tourneys it would be hard.