Final Results and Statistics (and a whole lot of rambling analysis)
Full Results available at
http://results.libertyscobo.phoenixrising-web.net http://results.scobo.net/Liberty
The Overall Verdict: It would have run nearly flawlessly if Raytown and Platte County brought Varsity teams as they registered.
Varsity:
1st - Savannah - 355
2nd - Barstow - 115
Highest Scores:
Round 1 - Savannah (410)
Round 2 - Savannah (460)
Round 3 - Savannah (385)
Round 4 - Savannah (270)
Round 5 - Savannah (425)
Round 6 - Barstow (275)
5 point differences:
Raytown South 210, Lee's Summit West 205 (Rd 2)
Park Hill 280, Cameron 275 (Rd 2)
Cameron 225, Mound City 220 (Rd 3)
Lee's Summit North 220, Park Hill 215 (Rd 4)*
Lee's Summit West 240, Lexington 235 (Rd 4)
Cameron 195, Park Hill South 190 (Rd 4)
Barstow 270, Blue Springs 265 (Rd 5)
Lee's Summit West 280, Truman 275 (Rd 5)
*This game reportedly had a moderator inconsistency in favor of LSN
10 point differences:
Smithville 165, William Chrisman 155 (Rd 2)
Park Hill South 225, St. Joseph Christian 215 (Rd 3)
TEAM X 95, Blue Springs South 85 (Rd 3 - two years in a row a filler team has won a game)
Barstow 205, Kearney 195 (Rd 4)
40 point differences (one question in Quarter 4 could have changed the outcome):
Mound City 250, Lee's Summit 235 (Rd 1)
Blue Springs 245, Raytown South 215 (Rd 3)
Kearney 250, Oak Grove 210 (Rd 3)
Lee's Summit West 265, Lee's Summit North 240 (Rd 3)
North Kansas City 255, Lee's Summit 230 (Rd 4)
Total Close Games: 17
Junior Varsity:
1st - Lee's Summit North - 270
2nd - Oak Park - 140
Highest Scores:
Round 1 - Platte County (495)
Round 2 - Oak Park (390)
Round 3 - Platte County (385)
Round 4 - Savannah (370)
Round 5 - Lee's Summit North (345)
Round 6 - Lee's Summit North (320)
10 point differences:
Park Hill South 240, Barstow 230 (Rd 2)
Lee's Summit North 230, Oak Grove 220 (Rd 4)
20 point differences
Mound City 185, Winnetonka 170 (Rd 1)
Maryville 200, Belton A 180 (Rd 1)
Platte County 290, Truman 275 (Rd 2)
Raytown South 265, North Kansas City 240 (Rd 3)
North Kansas City 200, Platte County 185 (Rd 4)
40 point differences (one question in Quarter 4 could have changed the outcome):
Kearney 330, Oak Grove 290 (Rd 1)
William Chrisman 250, Lee's Summit West 215 (Rd 2)
Smithville 320, North Kansas City 295 (Rd 2)
Truman 210, Kearney 175 (Rd 3)
William Chrisman 210, Fort Osage 170 (Rd 4)
Oak Park 225, Park Hill 190 (Rd 5)
Total Close Games: 13
My Comments
Running the Tournament
58 teams is way too much, especially when you have only three people working Tournament Central.
There was a major snafu in getting teams placed in the first round. Platte County and Raytown did not bring Varsity teams even after registering them, so we had to scurry to get the bracket down to 28 teams. Once I got everything in the computer fixed, we couldn't find Camp to get the room assignments to enter into the computer and to direct lost teams where to go. I got all the teams put in the right rooms and all Round 1 scores entered, and about a minute later, Round 2 scores came flying in. I really didn't get to rest until the middle of lunch.
Luckily, the program arranged seeds correctly after verifying with the Excel backup (it was just a simple plugging in team points for and against). There was one problem that occurred - Round 3 scores did not submit properly because my recently altered coding apparently tells it to ignore updating if bracket seeding is done after the round. But since the teams didn't go anywhere specific after the round, it was easy to manually enter the scores. It shouldn't be too hard to fix. Other than that, my program worked great. I think it would have been harder to downsize the bracket to 28 teams using the Excel sheet I used last year.
Results
Too many close games!!!
Varsity What-Ifs:
Barstow squeaked by in Rounds 4 & 5 - they almost wouldn't have made it to the final!
Cameron lost by 5 in Round 2 and won by 5 in round 3 to make up for it. They then won by 5 in Round 4 and made it to the Semifinals
Lee's Summit West won by 5 points in Rounds 4 and 5 to go up against Savannah in the Semifinals. If they had lost round 3, they would have been at highest seed 15.
If Blue Springs South had won the Team X game, they would have been 2-1 and would have taken 14th seed, even if they cumulatively scored less than 500 points.
If Mound City had won round 3, they would have made the top 16 and Cameron would have been the seed below.
If Oak Grove had won round 3, they would have made the top 16 and Kearney should have made it as well.
JV What-Ifs:
The 1-8-9-16 Quarterfinal could have been dramatically different.
Lee's Summit North, the JV champion, beat Oak Grove by 10 points to advance to the quarterfinal.
North Kansas City (#16) barely beat #1 Platte County to advance to play the LSN/Oak Grove winner.
The two North Kansas City losses in the morning were both by less than 40 points.
Kearney's only win was by 30 points. If Oak Grove had won, they could have gone 3-0.
If Lee's Summit West had defeated William Chrisman, William Chrisman wouldn't have gone 3-0 and Lee's Summit West could have made the top 16.
If Kearney had defeated Truman in Round 3, Kearney would have made the Top 16 and Truman would have been out by about 30 points.
If Park Hill had defeated Oak Park in the Quarterfinal, Oak Park wouldn't have made it to the Final.
Next Year
We=Liberty, since I will be at UMR next year
There will definitely be a cap on the number of teams that can come next year . Since we are hosting our district (and Conference if we win it this year), we are definitely only hosting one tournament. The preliminary number is 32, whether it is 32 Varsity or 16 Varsity and 16 JV (the latter of which would have to have a one-team-per-school limit).
I may end up having to run stats again next year since the mass confusion could have made anybody else go crazy (because I designed the program and knew exactly how to fix it, not necessarily because others couldn't handle it). And in actuality, we really needed one person entering Varsity scores and one entering JV scores. At 32 teams total, it shouldn't be such a big deal though. I think we should have had 5 people in Tournament Central for such a large tournament: computer person for both, runner for both, and Camp as the fifth to solve major issues with either.
I think the coaches meeting should not start until the Round 1 brackets are finalized and posted. Much of the Varsity snafus and delays came from that.
I'm sure we will have backup bracket setups on hand just in case teams back out. I was actually planning to have one ready just in case but never got around to it. But at 16 teams in each, I would think only bad weather or sudden emergencies (as in Leblond's absence) would cause a bracket change. If we ran a 32 team Varsity only, there would most certainly have to be a contingency plan since the likelihood of that happening increases.
OK... I'm done.
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