This weekend, the bracket for the first ever Sharkey's World Top 64 teams of all-time Tournament is unveiled. And over the coming weeks, while real life March Madness is taking place, these teams will be pitted against each other, until finally we have the true greatest team of all-time.
I'm not talking about "Oh, the Kansas City Shuffle are the greatest team of all-time." That's boring. I'm talking about a bracket pitting the season 1 KC Shuffle against the season 11 KC Shuffle. Which single team is the greatest ever.
It was tough to compile these 64 teams. I took a couple of criteria into account:
*Any 100 game winner in history qualified.
*Any LCS participant in history qualified.
*Teams were seeded based on their regular season record of that year.
*No World Series Champion could be lower than a 14 seed.
*No World Series participant would be a 16 seed.
*No World Series participant could face another world series participant in the first round.
I'll unveil the entire bracket sometime in the next few days. For now, I'll give you the seeds of the 12 World Series Champions.
Season 1 Kansas City is a 13 seed.
Season 2 Texas is a 13 seed.
Season 3 Kansas City is a 9 seed.
Season 4 Pawtucket is a 6 seed.
Season 5 Kansas City is a 1 seed.
Season 6 Kansas City is a 3 seed.
Season 7 Jacksonville is a 12 seed.
Season 8 Pawtucket is a 4 seed.
Season 9 Jacksonville is a 2 seed.
Season 10 Charlotte is a 13 seed.
Season 11 Kansas City is a 14 seed.
Season 12 Boise is a 5 seed.
And before anyone can say I hope you were fair with the teams that made it, I wasn't. I went by record & LCS appearances. Most teams don't have a participant. Kansas City & Pawtucket each have 10 participants. It's not bias in doing this, that I want to see as many Polythene teams as possible. It's fact based.
As far as how I determine who wins each matchup, I'm open to interpretation. I'm not goign to hold a vote, but when I post the matchups, I'll listen to peoples arguments before I "sim" the game in my head, and determine a winner.
Hopefully this will be something to liven up the league blog & world chat this season.
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There is only one possible Birdnals team that could make the top 64 but I am pretty sure they are left out and for good reason.
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