Dumb question - How is home team determined in NCAA baseball regionals

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The College World Series is the culmination of the NCAA Division 1 Baseball Championship Tournament and is held each year in Omaha, Nebraska. Eight teams participate in the College World Series in a double-elimination format. There is a specific NCAA process to determine the home team at the College World Series.

For the initial regional rounds of the tournament, the higher seeded team is always the home team. Once the initial regional round is completed, the NCAA uses the following three step process:

Step 1) The team has been the home team fewer times during the tournament becomes the home team.

Step 2) If both teams were the home team the same number of times, count the number of times each team was the visiting team during the tournament. The team that was the visiting team more often during the tournament becomes the home team.

Step 3) If both teams were the home team and visiting team the same number of times and the teams met previously during the tournament, the visitor in the immediately preceding game between the two teams becomes the home team.

Step 4) If both teams were the home team and visiting team the same number of times and the teams did not previously meet during the tournament, the team that was the visitor in its most recent, preceding game becomes the home team.

Step 5) If both teams were the home team and visiting team the same number of times, the teams did not previously meet during the tournament, and both teams were the visitor (or home team) in their most recent, preceding game, then the home team is decided by a coin flip.

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First round the higher seeded team is home. After the first round the team who was home the least times is home. When both teams have been home an equal number of times a coin flip will determine the home team.

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