How ties are broken
In a qualification league, every team plays a set number of games against different opponents, and the top teams advance to a single-elimination playoff. When two or more teams finish tied, we apply the following steps in order. Each step is only used to separate teams still tied after every step above it.
- 1
Wins
Teams are ranked first by total wins in the qualification games. More wins always ranks higher.
- 2
Head-to-head
If teams are tied on wins and every tied team played each other, the team with more wins among just those teams ranks higher. If the tied teams did not all meet, this step is skipped.
- 3
Point differential
Total points scored minus total points allowed across all qualification games. A higher differential ranks higher.
- 4
Result vs. the highest-ranked common opponent
Among opponents every tied team faced, we take the strongest one (by wins) and compare how each tied team did against them. A better result there ranks higher. Skipped if there is no common opponent.
- 5
Total points scored
The team that scored more points across all of its qualification games ranks higher.
- 6
Net Point Rate
A normalized point differential — points won or lost per game relative to the game target — so teams that played a different number of games compare fairly.
- 7
Team name
A final alphabetical fallback so the standings are always fully deterministic. A genuine tie that reaches this point is settled on-site by a one-game tiebreaker.
These rules apply to the qualification stage that decides playoff seeding. Once the playoff bracket begins, every match is single elimination — win and advance, lose and you're out.