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Tiebreakers used in PADA Fairmount Park Summer League

REGULAR SEASON TIE-BREAKERS

Since Summer League 2004, teams enter the post-season brackets based on their overall league record. To help avoid ‘run ups’ in score in games that are not close, game score will not be used to break any ties between any two teams at any point during the REGULAR season. The conscious risk is that after we exhaust the non point-related tie-breakers listed below we will have to resort to a coin flip. We are willing to trade that very remote circumstance because we think there will be many more ‘blowouts’ than there will be teams still tied after we exhaust the following tie-breakers. Point differential is fine for a competitive tournament environment, but that’s not what we’re going for in PADA SL.

Tiebreakers for 2 teams who have same overall record

  1. Head to Head
  2. Division Record (meaningless if all games are played within your division)
  3. Strength of Victory (cumulative record of the teams you beat)
  4. Coin Flip

Tiebreakers for 3 or more teams – as above (Note: If two teams remain tied after third or other teams are eliminated during any step, tie breaker reverts to step 1 of the two-team format). Tie-breaking scheme derived from NFL.

POST-SEASON ROUND ROBIN (POOL PLAY) TIE-BREAKERS

Standard UPA tie-breakers INCLUDING point differentials.

See UPA round robin tie-breakers.

  1. Head to head
  2. Point differential (involved teams)
  3. Point differential (common opponents)
  4. Point differential (common opponents, excluding best and worst differentials)
  5. Total points scored (involved teams)
  6. Total points scored (common opponents)
  7. Total points scored (common opponents, excluding best and worst differentials)
  8. Sum of the square roots of the absolute values of the point differentials counting games against all common opponents
  9. Coin flip

See http://www2.upa.org/files/events/formats/FormatManual3.01_approved2004.pdf or latest UPA Formats Manual for details and examples and implementation. (Suggestion: Work with the book once you are in anything more than a 3-way with an easily calculated point differential.).