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Originally Posted by JugglingReferee
Interesting. Tell me more...
(I think "overtime" refers to playing over the regulation time limit.)
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I guess if you look at it that way. But to me, "overtime" means "extra time", and these tiebreaking frames are not timed, as overtime periods in all other cases are. The word "tiebreaker" is apt and covers it all.
Even in sudden death methods of tiebreaking, where there isn't a time limit, the overtime is broken into periods which are timed. It grates to hear the tiebreaking frames in NCAA referred to as "periods". A period is an amount of time. "Frames" works (and is a term used by some, from scorekeeping practice); even "innings" would be better than "periods".
"Shootout", a term borrowed AFAICT from the NASL, is silly as applied to American or Canadian football, but still not as misleading as "overtime period" when they're this kind of tiebreaker.
"Playoff" saw some use in referring to tiebreakers, but unfortunately has another meaning that would just lead to confusion.
Robert