Directors

I have decided to combine two posts into one to sort of speed this setup process along. So therefore I am going to include both who the directors are and how they were seeded in this post.

Seeding for those that don’t know is a tool for tournament makers to attempt to ensure that the teams most likely to win meet in the championship match. Basically instead of randomly picking names out of a hat and possibly having the two top directors meet in the first round you rank the directors based on how you think they are going to do and put them at different places in the bracket to ensure that if they win your top matches will be towards the end of the tournament.

For this tournament we broke directors into groups of four and then randomly pulled them out of a hat for the top spots to still give some spontaneity to it. This would be very similar to how March Madness NCAA Championship Tournament is done.

Normally seeding is based on a team record or ranking but we don’t really have that when it comes to directors so I’ve again decided to base this on awards won and other distinctions. So basically directors received ranking points for the following: 3 points for a film that won either best picture or director in the Academy Awards. 2 points for a film wining either best director or best picture in the Golden Globes or is on the AFI top 100 movies list. And Finally 1 point for each film that that otherwise did not get the director a point but I feel is of noteworthy significance.