Standings

So we've got one week left and can you say parity in the league? We've got 10 teams total in the division and 5 of them are tied with a 3-3-1 record. Asstastic balls is the only team who has not had at least one tie this season so far. Every team makes the playoffs so the standings don't matter at all for qualifying but it does affect the seedings in the brackets. Effectively, the bottom 4 teams overall will need to play an extra round if they want to win the championship.

I've been told that the standings are wrong because they aren't taking the head to head tiebreaker into account. Here is the thing with that, we don't really look at the head to head tie breaker until the season is complete because there are too many things that can change as teams play each other more.

According to the WAKA Division Tournament Guidelines the following tiebreaking procedures are followed:

Procedures To Break Ties
If, at the end of the regular season, two or more teams in the same division finish with identical Win Percentages, the following steps will be taken until a winner is determined:
Two-Way Tie:
1) If the tied teams played each other during the season, the team with the better head-to-head record receives the higher rank.
2) If the tied teams did not play each other, or if the result of criteria #1 is inconclusive, the team with more overall wins during the regular season receives the higher rank.
3) If the tied teams have the same number of overall wins, the team with fewer total runs allowed during the regular season receives the higher rank.
- If total runs allowed is a tie, eliminate the runs allowed by each team in their FIRST game of the season, and compare again. If still tied, compare after eliminating the runs allowed in their first and second games, and so on.
4) If the teams are still tied, representatives from the teams or proxies from the Division Board shall shoot Rock- Paper-Scissors (best 2 out of 3) to determine the final result.
Three-Way Tie (or more):
(Note: If two teams remain tied after one or more teams are eliminated from the tie during any step, the tie breaker reverts to step 1 of the two-way tie format.)
1) If the tied teams all played one another during the regular season, the team with the best head-to-head Win Percentage in games played between the tied teams receives the higher rank.
2) If any of the tied teams did not play each of the others, or if the result of criteria #1 is inconclusive, the team with the most overall wins during the regular season receives the higher rank.
3) If the tied teams have the same number of overall wins, the team with fewest total runs allowed during the regular season receives the higher rank
- If total runs allowed is a tie, eliminate the runs allowed by each team in their FIRST game of the season, and compare again. If still tied, compare after eliminating the runs allowed in their first and second games, and so on.
4) If the teams are still tied, representatives from the teams or proxies from the Division Board shall shoot Rock- Paper-Scissors (best 2 out of 3) to determine the final result.

So what does this mean? It means its a mess to figure out which is why we don't worry about it until all games have been played. With 5 teams being tied, that really complicates things. You could easily say that Multiple Scorgasm should be ahead of 99 Problems in the standings because they beat 99 Problems in head to head play, however because of the multiple team tie you have to look at how all of the tied teams did against each other. If you took Baller I Hardly Know her out of the equation that means that 99 Problems did lose to Multiple Scorgasm but beat Masterbatters and QYP so 99 Problems would be listed higher but because not all of the tied teams played each other the head to head does not apply, therefore Runs Against is utilized as the next tie breaker.

Confused? Don't worry, it can be a confusing process when we have this many teams tied so hopefully week 8 can thin the herd a bit.



Keep in mind that at the playoffs we do have to be completely off of the fields for a soccer game that starts at 5pm so we may be following some special rules as they pertain to tie games. Erik will send something out to everyone about that.