Talk:Statistical tiebreakers
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Controversial assertions
- Is the use of tiebreakers "generally" frowned upon, or only in situations where playing off ties would be practical? I can think of many people who "frown upon" the idea that an ordinary regular-season high school tournament should extend to 7PM because they felt a need to play off the 12th playoff spot. Also, statistical tiebreakers are always used even in tournaments where extra games are part of the procedure - if you have a three-way tie there is no way to play it off without some team getting an advantage (outside of extremely controversial approaches like "triangle matches" which to my knowledge nobody uses anymore), and that team is going to be chosen by some statistic or other.
- "When breaking ties between teams who have played different opponents, some people prefer to use points per bonus." In what situation would those teams be "tied?" If we're talking about taking wildcards from different prelim pools to a playoff phase (which it seems like we are), it's fallacious to say that teams who have played entirely different opponents are "tied" - they may have the same record but those records cannot be compared so there is no tie to be broken; you're just using bonus conversion as the metric to award wild cards. Matt Weiner (talk) 11:14, 14 July 2021 (CDT)