I understand perfectly what seeded tournament progression is. They're looking to reward the players who played the best on the Disc Golf Pro Tour, not the players that have the best cumulative performance over the whole year at events that mostly were not DGPT events. Using the Tour points standings to seed the players does that well enough. And by that metric, the best four players (the top four in the standings) each had separate paths to the final, which is all they can really ask for.
Honestly, outside of using ratings or some other metric from outside the DGPT, I'm not sure what they could do differently to make sure the groupings provided the top seeds with the best chance to advance. Maybe there's a slight quibble in how they assigned the quarterfinal berths. Presuming that the players that got the bye are seeded 1-8, then the standings from the quarterfinals are arguably seeds 9-16. If that is the case, then maybe the quarterfinalists that advanced could have been sorted differently.
Regardless, the end result still would likely have been a grouping or two that were overly stacked with highly rated players. It just might have been a different group than the one Ricky was in.
