How Seeding is applied

Step 1 - Registration

Either the Region Secretary or Tournament Manager fills out the QRF Seeding Registration form that includes the specific:

Sport
Section or Subsection
Last date for games to count for seeding*

Minnesota-Scores will apply the Tiebreakers as shown below to provide a Seed to the Section.  It will be emailed** to the Section Rep as well as seeds posted on the Section Standings page.

Step 2 - Calculation

Around 10 AM the next morning, the QRF Calculates and gives each team a value for their performances this year.  The end result shown for each team is the AVERAGE points earned for every MN vs MN game this season.

The Tiebreaker Margin is then calculated by finding the Average QRF Point Value in a specific Class, and multiplying it by 10% for Football and 7% for all other sports and can be find using the appropriate link below.  The Head to Head Tiebreaker is applied at 2x the original TM.

Fall
Winter
Spring

The last step of the calculation is to rank the teams based on their QRF Point Value in descending order.

Step 3 - Slotting

For seeding purposes, we use the term "slots" at the beginning.  So the team with the highest QRF in a Section is in Slot 1, the next highest is in Slot 2 etc. until all of the teams are slotted.

Note - in case of a QRF Value tie, we apply tiebreakers to those teams first to determine their slots prior to figuring out any other seeding.

Step 4 - Application

Next we administer the Tiebreakers which can be found in full here.  Some basic guidelines:

Always start at the top and work down
Always compare only two teams at a time
If teams switch slots, the newly higher team has a right to "challenge" upward if they haven't already been compared to the new team above them

Tiebreakers are applied using basic "If....then..." questions and looks like this:

Slot 1 vs Slot 2
Are they within 2x the Tiebreaker margin? Does Head to Head break the tie? Are they within the Tiebreaker margin? Are they in the same Conference?

Example

This is an example from 2022 8AA Boys Basketball.  Note - the H2H tiebreaker was changed starting in the2022-23 season, so the application of the below example is not what was done last year, it is what would have been done if this scenario would have happened in 2023 and beyond.

Tiebreaker Margin was 5.9
 

Slot	Team	QRF
1	Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton	121.0
2	Perham	116.3
3	Pelican Rapids	114.8
4	Thief River Falls	109.4
5	Hawley	98.5
6	Warroad	96.4
7	Fergus Falls	95.2
8	Barnesville	85.2
9	Park Rapids Area	82.6
10	East Grand Forks	76.5
11	Wadena-Deer Creek	67.8
12	Menahga	65.6
13	Red Lake	49.3
14	Frazee	43.7
15	Crookston	43.5
16	Roseau	36.1

Slot 1 vs Slot 2 Slot 2 vs Slot 3 Slot 1 vs Slot 2 Slot 3 vs Slot 4 Slot 2 vs Slot 3 Slot 4 vs Slot 5 Slot 5 vs Slot 6 Slot 4 vs Slot 5 Slot 6 vs Slot 7 Slot 7 vs Slot 8 Slot 8 vs Slot 9 Slot 9 vs Slot 10 Slot 10 vs Slot 11 Slot 9 vs Slot 10 Slot 8 vs Slot 9 Slot 11 vs Slot 12 Slot 12 vs Slot 13 Slot 13 vs Slot 14 Slot 14 vs Slot 15 Slot 13 vs Slot 14 Slot 15 vs Slot 16

1. Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton
2. Pelican Rapids
3. Thief River Falls
4. Perham
5. Warroad
6. Hawley
7. Fergus Falls
8. Barnesville
9. Wadena-Deer Creek
10. Park Rapids
11. East Grand Forks
12. Menahga
13. Red Lake
14. Crookston
15. Frazee
16. Roseau

*Determined solely by the Section Representative
**Football seeding does not receive the email, only the seeds on the site are posted