Wildcard Coaches Conference Call Wednesday February 19 at 8:00 pm

Seeding Guidelines

Conference Call Goal

To fairly and transparently seed our 8 Wilcard teams.

Conducting the Conference call.

1. A Zoom Link will be emailed to you by 7:00 pm.

2. The Senior Provincials and Junior Invitationals are seeded by a committee.  We are the only Tournament that provides open and transparent participation for seeding with a Coach’s Seeding Conference Call.  We believe that Coaches (especially new Coaches) should experience the challenges seeding presents (at least one time).  Patience will be required.

3. Please ensure that you are set up for Zoom and ready to go.  This call is not a training session.  It can be unduly long if we are distracted.  Making your call from a private area where there is no background noise is best, and please use MUTE unless you are speaking. (Also, clothes are important – we have all heard Zoom stories).

4. Rob & Michael or Caley will be the moderators and will break ties if we get bogged down.

5. We will be having 8 Head Coaches plus assistants online, only the Head Coach or designee is allowed to speak.  You may connect 1 Assistant Coach, but they have “observer” status only, they are not allowed to participate.

6. Your team record will be critical for this conference call.

7. Conference call etiquette is pretty basic.

8. One person speaking at a time. Identify yourself by only school name first, and then speak after the Moderator gives you the “floor”.

9. Be brief and to the point.

10. We typically get this Seeding Conf Call done within 45 – 60 minutes, please allow enough time.

Conducting the Seeding

11. Seeding takes into account many factors including your win/loss record, strength of schedule, exhibition vs league vs playoff, early vs late season games and zone opponents.
example: If you beat the Zone Champion 3 times during the season but stumble during the playoffs then you are a lower seed, you didn’t come through when it counted in the playoffs.

12. In an attempt to streamline the process, a draft seeding proposal has been prepared for discussion.  This is presented as a framework to help guide this process but this is by no means final, it is a draft.

13. Decisions are reached by consensus however the Moderators decide a deadlock.

14. If you beat the Zone Champion 3 times during the season but stumble during the playoffs then you are a lower seed, you didn’t come through when it counted in the playoffs.

15. Your team will not be seeded until the higher seed from your zone is seeded.

16. Once agreement has been reached on 1 – 8, adjustments are made based on:

17. Teams from the same zone are kept away from each other in opening round.

18. Once agreement on any adjustments are completed, then a review of team start times will be considered.

19. No team can gain any advantage by a greater rest time.  Your opponent will have had the same rest time as you will have had.  We attempt to maintain a minimum of 3 hours between games times for player (and coach) rest.

Tournament Directors
Michael Pettifer – – Caley Donaldson – – Rob Slavik – – Steve Pettifer – – Bo Sidhu – – Ryan McWhinney – – Harjee Judge – – Shawn Mani