In pool play choose visitor.
If you lose as visitor, you save an inning of pitching.
If you win as visitor, you have to pitch anyway (and you win).
If you win as home team, you may give up an opportunity to score more runs (you potentially lose an inning of hitting.
If you lose as home team, you have pitched an inning you wouldn't have needed to, and potentially give up more runs.
So, if seeding comes down to runs scored, runs allowed, or run differential, and you want to go into bracket with pitchers less gassed, choosing visitor in pool play likely leads to better outcomes.
Summarized well here:
Home or Visitor: The Choice May Not Be That Obvious
Youth tournament coaches — when given the choice — almost always choose to be the home team. But is this the wrong decision? In pool play, I’d say it absolutely is. Here is the argument…spiderselite.com
Solid read. Thanks for sharing. Never thought about how being visitor helps the bracket setting tie-breaker scenarios. And being able to take out a pitcher in the bottom of an inning when you score a lot in the top.