What happens if wild card is tied

Best net points in conference games. Apply division tie breaker to eliminate all but the highest ranked club in each division prior to proceeding to step 2. The original seeding within a division upon application of the division tie breaker remains the same for all subsequent applications of the procedure that are necessary to identify the two Wild-Card participants. Head-to-head sweep. Applicable only if one club has defeated each of the others or if one club has lost to each of the others.

Only one club advances to the playoffs in any tie-breaking step. Remaining tied clubs revert to the first step of the applicable division or Wild Card tie-breakers.

As an example, if two clubs remain tied in any tie-breaker step after all other clubs have been eliminated, the procedure reverts to Step 1 of the two-club format to determine the winner. When one club wins the tiebreaker, all other clubs revert to Step 1 of the applicable two-club or three-club format.

In comparing records against common opponents among tied teams, the best won-lost-tied percentage is the deciding factor, since teams may have played an unequal number of games. To determine home-field priority among division-titlists, apply Wild Card tie-breakers. To determine home-field priority for Wild Card qualifiers, apply division tie-breakers if teams are from the same division or Wild Card tiebreakers if teams are from different divisions.

To determine the best combined ranking among conference team's in points scored and points allowed, add a teams position in the two categories, and the lowest score wins. For example, if Team A is first in points scored and second in points allowed, its combined ranking is "3. If two teams are tied for a position, both teams are awarded the ranking as if they held it solely.

The Red Sox would host the tiebreaker game by virtue of their record over the Mariners in the head-to-head season series. The Red Sox would host the tiebreaker game by virtue of their record over the Blue Jays in the head-to-head season series. The Yankees and Mariners would play a Monday tiebreaker to determine who advances. The Yankees would host the tiebreaker game by virtue of their record over the Mariners in the head-to-head season series. The Yankees and Blue Jays would play a Monday tiebreaker to determine who advances.

The Blue Jays would host the tiebreaker game by virtue of their record over the Yankees in the head-to-head season series. Explaining AL Wild Card tiebreaker scenarios. Share share-square Blue Jays vs. Orioles Mariners vs. Angels Red Sox at Nationals Yankees vs. The Red Sox would get the first pick in Permutation 1 because they beat all three teams in the head-to-head series.

Permutation 2 would involve a little bit more math, because the Yankees has the head-to-head advantage over the Mariners, the Mariners have the advantage over the Blue Jays, and the Blue Jays have the advantage over the Yankees.

New York would get the first draft pick because it has the best combined record against the other two teams. While the other possible outcomes had multiple permutations, this one needed one very specific outcome to occur. The Blue Jays needed to sweep, the Yankees needed to get swept, and both the Mariners and Red Sox needed to win two of their three games. So, naturally, the first two days of baseball this weekend played out to where this is a possibility. If both Group 1 teams lose and both Group 2 teams win, we've got ourselves a four-way tie for the two wild-card berths.

Head-to-head records against all of the other tied teams determines the draft order, which in this case would be: Red Sox, Blue Jays, Yankees, Mariners. This is more straightforward then, because it's essentially a four-team, one-game elimination bracket to reach the division series. But we'd get three more elimination games tacked onto the regular season. Baker Mayfield has been dealing with a sore foot ahead of Browns-Patriots. Week 10 marks the start of the second half of the NFL season.

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