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Playoff Tie Breaker Procedure

Playoff Tie-Breaker and Post-season Seeding Procedure

Top 6 Teams in each age group for D2,SO,JR, and SR. Top 3 teams in D1

  1. Step 1- Records (Win Percentage in case of a disproportionate number of games played due to cancellations)
  2. Step 2- Head to Head Results- head to head point differential in a split -or- Average points allowed (APA) if the tied teams didn't play each other during the season.
  3. Step 3A- For 3 or more team ties (and/or) the head to head results are inconclusive (example: Team A beats Team B and Team B beats Team C, but Team C beats team A -or- 1 of the tied teams didn't play another of the tied teams) APA will be the ordering factor. In this event the tied teams will be ordered by this number regardless of head to head results.
  4. Step 3B- In the event 2 of the tied teams have the same APA, a coin flip with determine their order. If 3 or more teams have a tied APA, average point differential for the season will order those teams.

Note: These steps are followed sequentially and ALL tied teams with the same record in that division will use the same criteria to be ordered. 

PLAYOFF SEEDING STRUCTURE:
Top 6 groups only (D2, SO, JR, and SR)
1st Round- 3 seed versus 6 seed and 4 seed versus 5 seed
2nd Round- 1 seed plays lowest remaining and 2 seed plays highest remaining.

Winners advance to the Championship Game. 

Top 3 group (D1)
Top 2 regular season teams advance to the Championship Game. 2 seed versus 3 seed and the winner advances to play the 1 seed in the championship game