That said, this is probably the softest advantage on the list. The downside of the 5-seed is having to play the 1-seed immediately in the second round. So, even if you do win one series, most seasons, that favorite is waiting for you right away next round. In a typical season in which the No. First, it avoids the No. Second, it also avoids the No. In a season with two heavy favorites at those spots, this might be a nice sweet spot.
No matter how good a 6-seed is, anything can happen in a one-game playoff. And even if it does survive, it comes into the playoffs exhausted after one or more elimination games. Meanwhile, the No.
That will be an especially interesting watch this year as the Lakers continue to slip in the standings. The 6-seed can be a pretty soft landing spot. That changes everything. Then again, better to be the No. First, the 7-seed gets to host any play-in game s. But lose, and you still get a second chance at home against an ostensibly worse team: the winner of the game. So, the 7-seed gets two home games against worse teams and needs only one win to make the playoffs proper.
The play-in tournament appropriately gives that 7-seed a huge advantage. Beyond that, the 7-seed also has some control over its first-round opponent. Good luck with that.
Put another way, the 8-seed is the last team that gets two shots at survival. It gets one crack at a road game and a chance to enter the playoffs as the 7-seed and face the 2.
But failing that, the losing 8-seed gets to go back home and host a win-or-go-home elimination game for that last playoff spot. The ninth-place team has to win two play-in games just to get into the first round, so that sucks. Even in that unlikely scenario, you are still more likely to miss the first round than make it. It is called a seed because of the analogy with plants where the seed might grow into a top rank at the end of that tournament, or might instead wither away.
One version of seeding is where brackets are set up so that the quarterfinal pairings barring any upsets would be the 1 seed vs. This may result in some brackets consisting of stronger players than other brackets, and since only the top 32 players are seeded at all in Tennis Grand Slam tournaments, it is conceivable that the 33rd-best player in a player field could end up playing the top seed in the first round. Rankings of tennis players are generated by computers, and players tend to change ranking positions gradually, so that a more equitable method of determining the pairings might result in many of the same head-to-head matchups being repeated over and over again in successive tournaments.
Sometimes the remaining competitors in a single-elimination tournament will be "re-seeded" so that the highest surviving seed is made to play the lowest surviving seed in the next round, the second-highest plays the second-lowest, etc.
This may be done after each round, or only at selected intervals. MLB does not have enough teams in its playoff tournament where re-seeding would make a difference in the matchups. The NBA's format calls for the winner of the first-round series between the first and eighth seeds within each of the two conferences the league has to face the winner of the first-round series between the fourth and fifth seeds in the next round, even if one or more of the top three seeds had been upset in their first-round series; critics have claimed that this gives a team fighting for the fifth and sixth seeding positions near the end of the regular season an incentive to tank deliberately lose games, so as to finish sixth and thus avoid a possible matchup with the top seed until one round later.
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