Asunto: Messed up playoff brackets?

Last season in III.2, III.7, IV.5, and IV.7 the play off brackets were not standard and gave a home advantage to a lower ranked team. Does anyone have any idea why?

They all look right to me. Is it possible the reseeding so that the highest remaining seed playing the lowest remaining seed threw you off?

The "playoff bracket" can be a confusing visual in handball.

The highest seeded team will always play the lowest seeded team in each round.

The bracket therefore has to change if a higher seeded team loses in the first round to compensate for this.

It looks like the examples that you gave were playoffs where the 1st seeded team lost in the first or second rounds (the lower seeded team which beat them was then assigned to the highest ranked team remaining in the following round).

AH I see now. Thank you both very much for clearing that up for me. Although, I think it would be kinda cool to give 8th home advantage over 2nd if 8th beat 1st, don't you?

I agree. I think if you beat 1st seed or any one higher than you, you should take their spot.

I disagree. If that were the system, people would have even fewer reasons to try to finish well in the regular season standings.

I don't know of any professional, collegiate, or competitive sport that handles playoffs this way... because it's a terrible idea that greatly reduces competition during the regular season.

I disagree as well. You finish higher in the standings for home field advantage.

Yeah I didn't think about how people would try to purposely do bad just so they could beat 1st.

i disagree to the entire regular season ... many teams dont have to have any effort to qualify to playoffs, so they play VL or L the entire season just cruising for playoffs.

Make it value more. Anything, like the first 2 be garanteed on semi finals.
or winner of first half gets a spot, winner of the 2nd gets a spot.

or 1st and 2nd placed teams on first half qualifies, then the 1st and 2nd on second qualifies. and we have a mini playoffs to get 4 more teams

i dont know, just throwing some ideas. i would just want anything to make regular season more interesting since it is a LONG season