Official Head-to-Head Rule

[tcannizzo]

Originally posted by Dakota
I didn't look up the code to determine context (too lazy), but how can "03. Won-loss records." be used to break a tie when the tie itself means identical won-loss records??? Must be missing something.

Tied teams in this sense do not necessarily mean they have identical won-loss records. Here is one scenario that could get you into the third tie breaker.

Let's say that there is one team left in the winner's bracket and two teams in the loser's bracket and the tournament cannot be completed. In order to determine who gets 2nd place and 3rd place, it could have been:

Tied teams shall be determined by:
01. Head to head competition.
a.) Team A and Team B played each other twice and split.
- or -
b.) the two teams might not have faced each other.

02. The team that advanced the farthest in the winner’s bracket.
Both teams might have advanced to the 3rd round of the winner's bracket, but Team A was had a "play-in" game (in the winner's bracket) and Team B didn't.

03. Won-loss records.
If Team A won their "play-in" game and their record was 4-1 (.800)
Team B played one game less and their record was 3-1 (.750)

Team A wins here. If they have the same win-loss, then go to the rest of the tie-breakers which do not need much explanation.

[Edited by tcannizzo on Aug 6th, 2005 at 11:55 AM]