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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

What do they do for standings purposes, count an overtime win as something between a tie and a regulation win? (I couldn't help but think "This is a question BillyMac would ask in the basketball forum" when I read this.)

In most cases, having a few tie games sprinkled around helps spread out the standings to determine championships, as long as it isn't the top teams that tie each other. But that goes only if only conference championships go on to play off. If they have one of these systems where many more teams than you'd need (to realistically determine a champion) qualify for playoffs, then I've no idea whether season ties help resolve qualifications or make them harder to figure.

Of course in playoffs themselves you need to break ties. However, in the finals you don't!

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