Colorado Mammoth Message Board

A question has arisen regarding the seeding for the playoffs, and it hasn't come up on previous years.

The NLL.com article states the following:

"Following the conclusion of the regular season on April 26th, the eight playoff teams will receive an overall seeding number (#1 through #8). The overall seeding number is used to determine which Divisional Final winner will host the Championship Game. The team with the best regular season record will be the #1 overall seed, and would have home floor throughout the playoffs, including the Championship Game."

This leads me to believe that the teams will be ranked #1 through 8 based simply on record and tiebreakers. This would place the Mammoth at #5 overall at this point.

However, somebody else has said that whomever wins the West will be #1 or #2 in the seedings, regardless of how the teams are in relation to the teams from the other division.

Can we get a more detailed breakdown of how the overall seedings will work once the regular season is over with?

Both statements are correct in their own context.

For the purposes of hosting the championship game, all the teams will be seeded #1 through #8. The western division winner and the eastern division winner will be seeded #1 and #2 respective to their records against each other. The rest of the teams will be seeded #3 through #8 based on their respective records to each other.

The teams within their divisions will be seeded #1 through #4. 1 will play four and 2 will play three, the higher seeds will host. The winners of these two games will play each other, the higher of which in the division will host the divisional final or league semi-final.

Once both the east and west division champions are determined the championship game site will be determined by the first paragraph above.

Hope that helps.

SG

Ok, thanks for the answer.

Even if it hasn't been an issue under the current playoff format to date, I've just never understood why the league never made this clear to begin with, as it certainly could come into play this year.

so, #1 west could host #2 east even if #2 east had a better record?

Yep, the #2 East could only be as high as the #3 League seed. (the #1 West would have to be in the top two overall League seeds) therefore above the #2 East.