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2006-12-20 03:45:30 · 2 answers · asked by Bob G 2 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
Breaking ties
Often, teams will finish a season with identical records. It becomes necessary, therefore, to devise means to break these ties, either to determine which teams will qualify for the playoffs, or to determine seeding in the playoff tournament. The rules below are applied in order until the tie is broken. If three teams are tied for one playoff spot, the rules are applied only until the first team qualifies. If multiple playoff spots are at stake, the rules are applied in order until the first team qualifies, then the process is started again for the remaining teams. [1]
Head-to-head (team with the best record in all games played between the teams tied)
Best won-lost-tied percentage in games played within the division. (This is for determining Division Champion; also, if there is a tie for a wild-card berth, this is used for breaking ties within a division.)
Best won-lost-tied percentage in games played within the conference.
Best won-lost-tied percentage in common games (only applicable with a minimum of 4 common opponents)
Strength of victory (winning percentage of opponents that were beaten)
Strength of schedule (winning percentage of all opponents played)
Best combined ranking among conference teams in points scored and points allowed. (That is, the "strength of victory" for all opponents from the same conference.)
Best combined ranking among all teams in points scored and points allowed (That is, the "strength of victory" for all opponents.)
Best net points in common games
Best net points in all games
Best net touchdowns in all games
Coin flip. (This is always the last resort, but is unlikely to be used because of all the tie-breakers ranked ahead of it. It is non-competitive, and thus considered distasteful. There was a close call in 1970, when if the New York Giants won their last regular-season game, the tie-breakers in use at the time would have led to a coin-flip between Dallas and Detroit to decide the wild-card berth in the NFC.)
2006-12-20 04:12:38 · answer #1 · answered by mitchell_8_5 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Only win, loss, and tie count. In the event of a tie for the last seed of the playoffs, the tiebreaker goes as follows
1. Record against each other
2. Division record
3. Conference record
4. Nonconference record
5. Coin flip
2006-12-20 03:49:16 · answer #2 · answered by #1denverfan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋