SLIAC Tie-Breaker Process

The following steps are used to break ties for Tournament seeding and qualification in the sports of baseball, basketball, soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball.  Starting with #1 and proceed through the steps until the tie is broken.  The tie-breaker process for multi-team ties will always return to head-to-head competition once a team has been eliminated.  Only games counted as Conference competitions shall be used in tie-breaker process.

(1) Head-to-head competition between tied teams

(2) Record vs. other SLIAC teams, starting with first-place

(3) Quality of Wins Index, Conference contests only (see below)

(4) Use seed, not place finish.  Break other ties first, use team seeds rather than place finish

(5) Look at losses.  Using the same formula as the quality of wins index but taking only loses into account

(6) Look at wins.  Using the same formula as the quality of wins index but taking only wins into account

(7) Disregard the “always return to head-to-head competition once a team is eliminated” and use the tie-breaker to put a team in the Tournament or to assign a higher seed.

(8) Coin toss

Quality of Wins Index (for Step 3)

Win on the road versus a team at or above .667—15 points

Win at home versus a team at or above .667—14 points

Win on the road versus a team at or above .500, but below .667—13 points

Win at home versus a team at or above .500, but below .667—12 points

Win on the road versus a team at or above .333, but below .500—11 points

Win at home versus a team at or above .333, but below .500—10 points

Win on the road versus a team below .333—9 points

Win at home versus a team below .333—8 points

Loss on the road versus a team at or above .667—7 points

Loss at home versus a team at or above .667—6 points

Loss on the road versus a team at or above .500, but below .667—5 points

Loss at home versus a team at or above .500, but below .667—4 points

Loss on the road versus a team at or above .333, but below .500—3 points

Loss at home versus a team at or above .333, but below .500—2 points

Loss on the road versus a team below .333—1 point

Loss at home versus a team below .333—0 points

Points for tied contests are calculated by taking the points which would have been awarded with a win, adding the points which would have been awarded with a loss and dividing by two.

The quality-of-wins index is calculated by adding the total number of points and dividing by the number of games.

A neutral game is defined as being at a site where neither team practices or plays its regular home games and, as such, is awarded as if it were an away game.

The quality-of-wins index is calculated based on end of season record and for Conference contests only

Conference Commissioner and President to determine QOW index score