2009 GLSCL Revised Tournament Format

 

The following format will be used for this year�??s rain-shortened tournament, substituting for the six-team, double-elimination tournament:

 

The tournament consists of the top six teams in regular-season league play and is split into two 3-team pools or pods, with the winner of each pod playing in a single championship game. Teams are assigned pods based on seed, which is determined by the order of finish in regular-season league play.

 

Each team is guaranteed to play three games. Teams in each pod play two teams in its pod and one team outside its pod. The team with the best composite record in each pod advances to the championship game. Two-way ties in a pod are broken by head-to-head play; three-way tides are broken in order of the following criteria: 

(a) fewest runs allowed; (b) the highest seed.  The higher seed will be home team throughout the tournament.

 

Pod 1                                                               Pod 2

 

Lima (#1)                                                        Grand Lake (#2)

Licking County (#4)                                       Cincinnati (#3)

Southern Ohio (#5)                                         Xenia (#6)

 

 

Schedule

 

Wednesday, August 5

 

12:00   Licking County vs. Southern Ohio

3:30     Grand Lake vs. Cincinnati

7:00     Lima vs. Xenia

 

Thursday, August 6

 

12:00   Cincinnati vs. Licking County

3:30     Grand Lake vs. Xenia

7:00     Lima vs. Southern Ohio

 

Friday, August 7

 

10:00   Cincinnati vs. Xenia

1:00     Grand Lake vs. Southern Ohio

4:00     Lima vs. Licking County

 

7:00     Winner of Pod 1 vs. Winner of Pod 2 �?? GLSCL Championship Game

 

 

Pod Outcome Scenarios. Of a possible 64 different outcomes in a pod:

 

65.6% One team in a pod finishes with a 3-0 or 2-1 record and no tie breakers are needed

28.2% Two teams in a pod finish 2-1 (head-to-head competition used to break two-way ties)

6.2% Three teams in a pod finish 2-1 or 1-2