One of the worst ways to miss ALTA playoffs
So this just happened to one of our teams. In our flight there were 3 divisions so the top 2 teams in each division make playoffs and the top 2 third place teams get in as a wildcard. Going into the last week we knew that if we took 2 points to make playoffs that we would be guaranteed of being one of the top 2 third place teams.
With all the rainouts the other team ended up defaulting a couple courts to us and we actually took 3 points to comfortably slip into playoffs. The other third place team took 5 points the last week so they did what they could but they came up a bit short and we got the spot. The coordinator had finalized the playoff draw. It was posted on the website. Our captain and the opposing captain had already exchanged emails working out details to start the third court a bit early.
Then last night the coordinator called our captain to inform him that there was an issue with the computer and we were no longer in playoffs. The other third place team was going to go in our place.
It turns out that in our division there was a matchup of two teams who were out of playoff contention and one team ended up defaulting a bunch of matches with the rainout on Saturday and only having until Tuesday to get the matches in. These defaults put them over 7 defaults which means they are defaulted out for the entire season and none of their results count. We had taken 5 points from this team- because they were defaulted out for the year those points were taken away from us.
Before this we were on 22 points and the other team was on 20 points. After this we were dropped to 17 points out of 30 which works out to 56.6% while the other team was on 20 out of 35 possible which is a 57.1%. By rule the team with the higher percentage of wins goes to playoffs.
Just a brutal way to miss out on playoffs.
So this just happened to one of our teams. In our flight there were 3 divisions so the top 2 teams in each division make playoffs and the top 2 third place teams get in as a wildcard. Going into the last week we knew that if we took 2 points to make playoffs that we would be guaranteed of being one of the top 2 third place teams.
With all the rainouts the other team ended up defaulting a couple courts to us and we actually took 3 points to comfortably slip into playoffs. The other third place team took 5 points the last week so they did what they could but they came up a bit short and we got the spot. The coordinator had finalized the playoff draw. It was posted on the website. Our captain and the opposing captain had already exchanged emails working out details to start the third court a bit early.
Then last night the coordinator called our captain to inform him that there was an issue with the computer and we were no longer in playoffs. The other third place team was going to go in our place.
It turns out that in our division there was a matchup of two teams who were out of playoff contention and one team ended up defaulting a bunch of matches with the rainout on Saturday and only having until Tuesday to get the matches in. These defaults put them over 7 defaults which means they are defaulted out for the entire season and none of their results count. We had taken 5 points from this team- because they were defaulted out for the year those points were taken away from us.
Before this we were on 22 points and the other team was on 20 points. After this we were dropped to 17 points out of 30 which works out to 56.6% while the other team was on 20 out of 35 possible which is a 57.1%. By rule the team with the higher percentage of wins goes to playoffs.
Just a brutal way to miss out on playoffs.
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