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I’ve been a football fan for nearly 40 years and have never heard the term Bracket related to the game - what does it mean?
by siquick 4y ago
I’ve been a football fan for nearly 40 years and have never heard the term Bracket related to the game - what does it mean?
- JBiserkov 4y agoTournament schema: final, semi-finals, quarter-finals, etc.
- colewilson 4y agoIt mainly refers to the tree-like graph of teams in a tournament, I usually hear it in reference to a basketball or American football game though.
- bombcar 4y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket_(tournament) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket_(tournament)
- capableweb 4y agoIt's sometimes called "elimination tournament" or just "draw" too. Just as a curiosity, where you from? Is English your mother-language?
- siquick 4y agoUK but live in Australia (it’s not used here either as far as I know). I think the UK equivalent is probably Draw as in “this is the draw for the World Cup”. Bracket in the UK is something used to hold up shelving.
- midasuni 4y agoI’ve seen it recently, like so much stuff it’s u.s cultural imperialism taking over the Anglosphere. See also “Black Friday”, some random time in the middle of November.