Avoiding Conference Mates Double Hit (Smith NT) Topic

I'm sure this has happened before, but this is the first time I've seen it. In Smith D3, Averett should be the first six seed. Averett has three conference mates above them in the PR. Because Averett should be the first six seed, this should be no problem. There are four sixes and only three regions to avoid, so they should be a six. But they aren't. They're a seven. Because they've been double-hit by the algorithm that avoids conference mates in NT seeding. 

SUNY Farmingdale should be the last five seed (in the East region), but because SUNY Maritime (a Skyline foe) is the four seed in the East, they must be bumped down. Averett was the first candidate to be bumped up, but because NC Wesleyan (a USA South foe) was the two seed in the East, Averett was unable to be bumped up, and Concordia, Moorhead took that spot instead. But because Concordia, Moorehead took that spot, SUNY Farmingdale was bumped down into Averett's rightful place as the first six seed. Averett became the second six seed, where they had to be bumped down three lines on the PR to avoid NCWC, La Grange, and Shenandoah. 

So they moved behind Concordia, Moorehead because Farmingdale had to avoid conference opponents, and then they moved behind Pacific Lutheran, SUNY Oswego, and Trinity because they had to avoid conference mates. 

Has anyone seen somebody get hit twice by the algorithm like that? I've had teams that have fallen farther (I once had a Whitworth team that was 52 on the PR and ended up in the 64th spot in the tournament, the last 16 seed), but I haven't noticed a team that fell twice. 
6/8/2015 12:33 PM
Sure it happens....I went from 7 to 11 one year...or something like that....when you conference sends 7 or 8 it gets super quirky.....when you send 9 it gets really weird, I think the sim tries to make sure thee last team in gets the same bracket as the highest ranked team  
6/8/2015 12:40 PM
Posted by Trentonjoe on 6/8/2015 12:40:00 PM (view original):
Sure it happens....I went from 7 to 11 one year...or something like that....when you conference sends 7 or 8 it gets super quirky.....when you send 9 it gets really weird, I think the sim tries to make sure thee last team in gets the same bracket as the highest ranked team  
yeah, I've been knocked down four seed lines before, so this is definitely not the most extreme change I've seen. What drew my eye this time is because the team in question was only knocked down at all to accommodate another team in a different conference who was knocked out. 
6/8/2015 12:42 PM
In worlds were 2 or 3 conferences send 6+ teams this crap happens, at one point in TARK D2, the GLV would send 9-11 every year, the CAA would send 6-8 and and the mid-american ( or Lone star can't remember) would send 5ish....three conferences would send 20+ teams pretty regularly, I stopped looking at the projection report.
6/8/2015 1:01 PM
It's possible I am off in my numbers but I don't think so......
6/8/2015 1:02 PM
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