Shriji Baba Saraswati Vidya Mandir, Mathura

Subject -Physical education

Unit 1- Planning in Sports
(Knockout tournament)

By Girish tomar

Covid period – Online session

Procedure to draw fixture: Knockout (Bye and Seeding)
Seeding: This is a method of ranking players and
teams on the basis of their performance. The
Seedings, of course, will change based on the form
and performance but the general idea is to keep
the seeds in separate groups so that they do not
meet early in the tournament.
for example, With the top of the upper half of
the players, whereas the top seed is placed on top
of the upper half of the players, whereas the
second-seeded player goes to the bottom of the
lower half.
Seeding method
A disadvantage of the knockout system is that a weak
team may be pitted against a very strong team. It is also
possible that all strong team get grouped together and
the weak teams get grouped together. This cause the
strong team to get eliminated while the weak team may
move ahead. Seeding method avoid this pitfall. Here, by
default, the strong team get placed appropriately in the
schedule of play. Strength of the teams generally
depends on their past performance. So the seeding
tends to change after each event and depends on the
performance in the preceding tournament. The number
of seeded teams is also decided in the same manner-
the power of 2.
Example: we have 13 teams and we have to place 4 seeded teams in fixture.
N=13 No of matches =13-1=12
No of teams in upper half= 13+1/2=7
No of teams in lower half = 13-1/2=6
No of byes = 16-13= 3 No of rounds= 4
Seeded teams =4.
1seeded-bye2
2
3
4
5
6
7seeded4th
8seeded-bye3
9
10
11
12
13seeded-bye1
Special seeding
this is for the performers to start the event not
from the first game but as late as the quarter-
finals or even semi-finals.
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