I'm not a Tournament Director, so I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think it pairs purely by rating seeds in the middle rounds. I'm pretty sure it is then by game results and the players with more points more likely to face others with similar number of points in the event. In a case like yours, I think the Tournament Director just pairs people in a way to try and balance the number of who gets what color how often and tries to avoid repeating too much. Otherwise, I think they typically just draw randomly who plays who (either by drawing names out of a bag or by using an online random number generator).
Again, I'm merely a chess player - I don't direct events, so I'm not certain. I'm only going off of the USCF rated swiss events I've participated in and observing what I think happens (but maybe there is some more formal method I'm just unaware of). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm playing in a 5 round swiss tournament for USCF and won my first game as black.
Five players won with white four won with black and one player received a free point from a bye because he was the odd man out. Of the four players who won with black my rating is lowest does that mean I will face the second highest rated White player who won? Im assuming the player who received a point from a bye will play white tomorrow to even things out and his rating is lower then mine.
Anyone know the answer to this?