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Message: [QUOTE="willingtonfan, post: 2075315, member: 2059"] Fair question So I shall endeavor to provide an answer. The idea is to create a bracket where at any given point assuming all seeds hold the number one team is playing the weakest team still in the bracket. So they play number 16 first round, if eight beats nine they play eight in the second round, if four beats five in the third round they play four, and then play number two in the fourth round for the right to go to the final four. So that is where the concept of the S-curve comes from. You match the highest number one seed with the lowest number two seed as that team is the overall number eight seed if it was a straight up bracket of all the teams not splitting into four brackets. You also match the highest number one seed with the lowest number four seed. Then when you fit in the other number one seeds the two seeds and the three seeds The lowest number two seed is in essence the number eight overall seed so just as eight and nine play each other in each bracket in the first round the overall eight and nine seeds should play each other in the third round. In order to do that you match the lowest number two (think the eighth overall seed) with the highest number three (think the ninth overall seed). And that is why our bracket should have the lowest #2, highest 3 lowest four highest five etc. Hope this helps! [/QUOTE]