B. If three or more teams are tied for first place in the standings, the following steps in
Section B will be followed until a determination is made.
After the head-to-head competition among the tied teams, if a tiebreaker step produces
standings with a clear No. 1 team by itself among the tied teams, that team is selected
for the championship game and the remaining teams still in contention revert to the
beginning of the applicable tiebreaker procedures (e.g., if there are three teams, the No.
1 team is in the championship game and the other two teams go to the first step of the
two-team tiebreaker procedures; if there are four teams, the No. 1 team is in the
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championship game and the other three teams go to the first step of the three-team
tiebreaker procedures, etc.).
If a tiebreaker step produces results with two teams tied for No. 1, they are both selected
for the championship game. To decide the ranking of the two teams, they will progress
through the two-team tiebreaker procedures.
If a tiebreaker step produces results with two teams tied for a position other than No. 1,
the winner of the game between the two tied teams shall be the representative. If the two
teams did not play, move to two-team tiebreaker above. If three or more teams remain
tied after any step, move to next step in tiebreaker with remaining tied teams.
If a tiebreaker step produces results with one team being eliminated from proceeding to
the next step in the tiebreaker process, the team that is eliminated shall not be pulled
back into the tiebreaker for any future step(s).
If all teams involved in the tie are tied after any step, all teams will continue to the next
step in the tiebreaker procedures.
1. The records of the three (or more) tied teams will be compared based on winning
percentage in games among the tied teams:
(a) If all teams involved in the tie did not play each other, but one team defeated
all other teams involved in the tie, the team that defeated all other teams in
the tie is removed from the tiebreaker, and the remaining teams revert to the
beginning of the applicable tiebreaker process (i.e., two team or three or
more team tie).
(b) If all teams involved in the tie did not play each other and no team defeated all
other teams involved in the tie, move to the next step in tiebreaker.
2. The records of the three (or more) tied teams will be compared based on winning
percentage against all common conference opponents played by all other teams
involved in the tie.
3. The records of the three (or more) tied teams will be compared based on winning
percentage against the next highest placed common opponent in the standings
in order of finish:
4. The records of the three (or more) tied teams will be compared based on the best
cumulative conference winning percentage of all conference opponents:
(a) In the event of an unbalanced schedule (i.e., less than nine conference
games are played), the records of the three (or more) tied teams will be
compared based on the best cumulative conference winning percentage of
all conference opponents, regardless of how many conference opponents
each team played. If winning percentage is equal for all conference
opponents, move to next step in tiebreaker.
5. The representative will be chosen by the by the highest ranking by SportSource
Analytics (team Rating Score metric) following the regular season.
6. Random draw among the tied teams conducted by Commissioner or designee.
