Part of me hates to ask this, but...

[orangeandbrown]

Does anyone know the tie breakers for the MAC.

[Warthog]

They are almost unbeleivable and not even worth attempting to figure out until all the games have been played. The biggest confusing part is how ties are broken between teams with the same record. It has something to with your record against those teams and if that doesn't work, I think it goes to record against the #1 team in the league and then down until one has a better record.

The other day when there was like five teams at 8-5, the tie would be broken by your record against the other four teams in the tie, regardless of how many times you played them. So you could have one team from the East, let's say, who goes 3-1 against four West teams while one of the West teams could be 5-2 against all the others. But the East team gets the higher seed by having a higher winning percentage against those teams. It doesn't matter how many games you have played.

Or if two teams are still tied by winning percentage, then it goes to your record against the # 1 team. So if Miami would be the #1 seed, you start with your records against Miami. So if we can beat Miami, it would help us out in this part of the tie-breaker, as I am guessing Kent, Akron, Buffalo and Ohio all have lost to the Redskins, thus giving us this tie-breaker.

[SaxyIrishTenor]

They are almost unbeleivable and not even worth attempting to figure out until all the games have been played. The biggest confusing part is how ties are broken between teams with the same record. It has something to with your record against those teams and if that doesn't work, I think it goes to record against the #1 team in the league and then down until one has a better record.

The other day when there was like five teams at 8-5, the tie would be broken by your record against the other four teams in the tie, regardless of how many times you played them. So you could have one team from the East, let's say, who goes 3-1 against four West teams while one of the West teams could be 5-2 against all the others. But the East team gets the higher seed by having a higher winning percentage against those teams. It doesn't matter how many games you have played.

Or if two teams are still tied by winning percentage, then it goes to your record against the # 1 team. So if Miami would be the #1 seed, you start with your records against Miami. So if we can beat Miami, it would help us out in this part of the tie-breaker, as I am guessing Kent, Akron, Buffalo and Ohio all have lost to the Redskins, thus giving us this tie-breaker.

Wow. My head is spinning after having read that.

[momtartin]

Originally posted by Warthog:
They are almost unbeleivable and not even worth attempting to figure out until all the games have been played. The biggest confusing part is how ties are broken between teams with the same record. It has something to with your record against those teams and if that doesn't work, I think it goes to record against the #1 team in the league and then down until one has a better record.

The other day when there was like five teams at 8-5, the tie would be broken by your record against the other four teams in the tie, regardless of how many times you played them. So you could have one team from the East, let's say, who goes 3-1 against four West teams while one of the West teams could be 5-2 against all the others. But the East team gets the higher seed by having a higher winning percentage against those teams. It doesn't matter how many games you have played.

Or if two teams are still tied by winning percentage, then it goes to your record against the # 1 team. So if Miami would be the #1 seed, you start with your records against Miami. So if we can beat Miami, it would help us out in this part of the tie-breaker, as I am guessing Kent, Akron, Buffalo and Ohio all have lost to the Redskins, thus giving us this tie-breaker.

I just stopped reading after the first paragraph. I didn't feel like trying to decipher the madness.

[kdog27]

I just stopped reading after the first paragraph. I didn't feel like trying to decipher the madness.

I'm with you

[kdog27]

I just stopped reading after the first paragraph. I didn't feel like trying to decipher the madness.

I'm with you

[TG1996]

I just stopped reading after the first paragraph. I didn't feel like trying to decipher the madness.

I'm with you

I'm with all three of you.

[goofyeuph]

They are almost unbeleivable and not even worth attempting to figure out until all the games have been played. The biggest confusing part is how ties are broken between teams with the same record. It has something to with your record against those teams and if that doesn't work, I think it goes to record against the #1 team in the league and then down until one has a better record.

The other day when there was like five teams at 8-5, the tie would be broken by your record against the other four teams in the tie, regardless of how many times you played them. So you could have one team from the East, let's say, who goes 3-1 against four West teams while one of the West teams could be 5-2 against all the others. But the East team gets the higher seed by having a higher winning percentage against those teams. It doesn't matter how many games you have played.

Or if two teams are still tied by winning percentage, then it goes to your record against the # 1 team. So if Miami would be the #1 seed, you start with your records against Miami. So if we can beat Miami, it would help us out in this part of the tie-breaker, as I am guessing Kent, Akron, Buffalo and Ohio all have lost to the Redskins, thus giving us this tie-breaker.

After reading this I got a call from NASA. They said putting a man on the moon wasn't as hard as trying to figure out the MAC tie breaker

[NY-BG-FAN]

I am trying to study with little success, so I couldn't read all that, but one good tie breaker would be to finish with a better record than the rest of the teams. I'll pull for that. Hopefully it doesn't have to come to a tiebreaker.