Playoff Rules and Tiebreakers

All six teams will advance into the playoffs. The top two teams from the regular season will have a first round bye, with the rest of the bracket set up like this:

Top Half
Seed #1 (Bye)
Seed #4 vs. Seed #5

Bottom Half
Seed #2 (Bye)
Seed #3 vs. Seed #6

In the event of a tie, here are the tiebreakers. I wanted to put point differential last to avoid people running up the score. Team ratings have been put in to help balance the odds for people using lower ranked teams.

1. Head to head records
2. Team rating (Lower ratings winning the tiebreak)
3. Point differential

The example below came from season one:

Head to head tiebreakers will be applied multiple times if needed. For example, if Derek beats Mike, Danny beats Roel and Chad beats Gil, four teams will finish with 3 - 2 records. In this case, I get the first seed because I win the head to head versus Gil (the only other team with a 2 - 1 head to head record versus the four tied teams). Derek would finish third because he would own the head to head tiebreaker versus Mike (the only other team with a 1 - 2 record against the four tied teams).

Team ratings will only be used if the head to head cannot resolve the tie. For example, if Mike, Gil and I finish with a 4 - 1 record, then the finishing position will be determined by the tiebreaker rules. Since Gil beat Mike, Mike beat me, and I beat Gil, the head to head records are also tied. Going to the second tiebreaker, we'd end up with me (team rating 89) winning the tie break, Gil (team rating 94) in second and Mike (team rating 96) in third.