Mineshaft determination

[Whalen3186]

Originally Posted by KRatcliff

That seems pretty clear, but how do you determine the split between the bottom half reliably on an odd number of qualifiers. For example: In an 87 car qualifying field is 44 considered the first competitor in bottom half of the field? If you say yes, please show how you come to that conclusion.

Error-proof way to remember it, look at the fastest qualifier that is on the bottom side of the first round pairings. This is the opp of the #1 OR #2 qualifier if an odd number of cars.

For 87 and 88 car ladders the first qualifier in the bottom half is #45.