So I'm trying to get a jump on this field and figure things out. For the record, here's how I'm setting seedings.

- Straight pt totals where it works.
- In the event of pt ties tiebreaker is whichever lady made the most ballots.
- In the event of pt AND ballot ties tiebreaker is whichever lady scored highest on a ballot.
- In the event of a tie there I just picked whoever I thought was hottest. Its just for seeding.

It works out at the moment pretty well. If things change tonight with more ballots then I'll deal with that. Here's the interesting thing. For the first 60 ladies things work out beautifully. As it happens there are 8 ladies tied for the 4 16 seeds. As it so happens 4 of those ladies made 2 ballots and the other 4 only 1. So it looks like I'm going to put up 4 Play In matchups for the 16 seeds. Works beautifully in my book. I figure I'd put them up for Friday morning and let them run through the weekend before the Field of 64 kicks off on Monday.

No byes. Seems lame. Rather see 4 extra girls anyway. Only other thing I can think is to play the Play In games on Monday with the other ones, extend each day to 9, and screw around. But it seems like a lot of off planning for me and since these are just play ins for 16 seeds I figure Friday-Sunday is fine.

This is the ideal schedule:
4/20 (Fri) to 4/22 (Sun) - 4 16-seed Play Ins
4/23 (Mon) to 4/29 (Sun) - 8 1st Round Bracket A
4/25 (Wed) to 5/1 (Tues) - 8 1st Round Bracket B
4/30 (Mon) to 5/6 (Sun) - 8 1st Round Bracket C
5/2 (Wed) to 5/8 (Tues) - 8 1st Round Bracket D
5/7 (Mon) to 5/13 (Sun) - 8 2nd Round Bracket A/B
5/9 (Wed) to 5/15 (Tue) - 8 2nd Round Bracket C/D
5/14 (Mon) to 5/20 (Sun) - 4 Sweet 16 Bracket A/B
5/16 (Wed) to 5/22 (Tues) - 4 Sweet 16 Bracket C/D
5/21 (Mon) to 5/27 (Sun) - Elite 8 Bracket A/B
5/23 (Wed) to 5/29 (Tues) - Elite 8 Bracket C/D
5/30 (Wed) to 6/3 (Sun) - Final Four
6/4 (Mon) to 6/10 (Sun) - Final


Of course, still 5-6 hours before deadline so more ballots can easily come in. But if you're intending to send one make sure to let me know because it looks like I'll be putting up the prelim polls late tonight/early tomorrow.