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Resolution of Ties

2021

RESOLUTION OF TIES – Competition Regulations

06.01.

When teams are tied after a round-robin the tie shall be resolved by following the procedure

1. With two teams tied on wins/losses, rank them by the result of their head-to-head game(s) in the round-robin; the winner is placed ahead of the loser. If a double round-robin and teams tied on wins/losses, the team with the better runs against record is placed ahead.
2. With more than two teams tied on wins/losses, rank them in order
  1. By the results of their games among themselves in the round-robin games.
  2. If still tied on wins/losses, by their runs against record in the games among themselves; the team with the lowest runs against is placed ahead of the others, the team with the second-lowest runs against is placed ahead of the others, etc.
  3. If any teams tied by their runs against record in the games amongst themselves –
  1. two teams – by the results of their games amongst themselves in the round-robin game.
  2. more than two teams – by their runs against record in all the round-robin games; the team with the lowest runs against is placed ahead of the others, the team with the second-lowest runs against is placed ahead of the others, etc.

If teams still tied, lowest total runs against decides placings.

 

b. Across Section Round Robins

 With two or more teams tied on wins/losses, rank them in order –

  1.  By their runs against record in all round robin games; the team with the lowest runs against is placed ahead of the others, the team with the second lowest runs against is placed ahead of the others, etc.
  2. If any teams still tied on runs against, by random selection; the first team selected is placed ahead of the others.

 

Tie Breakers
NOTE: Tie breakers within a tournament never revert back to the top of the tie breaker list.
For example, if three teams are tied and head to head is the first tie breaker and all three teams have a 1-1 record against each other, so the head to head doesn’t break any ties.
if 3 teams have the same overall record at 4-2 and all 3 of the teams played each other an equal number of times and one team’s record against the other two was 2-0 and another was 1-1 and the other was 0-2. This tie breaker would order them accordingly. If all three teams had identical 1-1 records, this tie breaker would not be used.
It should be noted that this tie breaker is completely ignored if all of the teams tied do not play each other an equal number of times. For example if there are 3 teams tied and one team played the other two, but the other two did not play each this tie breaker will be ignored (regardless of the outcome of the two games played by the first team)
Runs Allowed – The total of a team’s opponents score. The smallest total wins the tiebreaker.