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Post by heznfire on Sept 7, 2012 19:18:41 GMT -5
Tiebreakers for Conference Challenge
1. Head-to-Head Record in Challenge
Fairly simple.
2. Head-to-Head Record -- AFTER Bowl Games
If two conferences have the same record overall and against each other in the Challenge, and there's a bowl game between users from the two conferences, the outcome of the bowl game will break the tie. I like this as the second tiebreaker because I'd want an actual user game to break the tie if possible, rather than a statistical tiebreaker like ....
3. Margin of Victory in Head-to-Head User Games Between the Two Conferences After Bowl Games Have Been Played
In case there are no user bowl games or two user bowl games that result in a split between the two conferences, we will move to the greater margin of victory in all head-to-head user games between the two conferences.
NOTE: If I believe a team is trying to run up the score against a user opponent to increase margin of victory, the team will be disqualified from earning the extra scholarship should its conference win the Challenge.
I contemplated BCS rankings, but I wanted the users to determine the winner of the Challenge and BCS rankings may be flawed due to preseason rankings.
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Post by heznfire on Sept 7, 2012 19:24:53 GMT -5
With these tiebreakers in mind, here is how they would play out this season should the SEC and Pac-12 both finish the Challenge with 7-5 records:
1. SEC and Pac-12 went 3-3 against each other.
2. The National Championship or Rose Bowl could break the tie.
3. If the head-to-head record remains the same after the bowl games, here is the current MOV breakdown in the SEC-Pac-12 user games:
SEC: -2 Pac-12: +2
Thus, if both the SEC and the Pac-12 have identical 7-5 records in the Challenge, and there's no SEC-Pac-12 user bowl game, the Pac-12 will win the 2013 Conference Challenge.
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Post by heznfire on Sept 10, 2012 20:40:03 GMT -5
The SEC is now only one game behind the Pac-12 in the Conference Challenge after Missouri's win against North Carolina.
However, it'll all be for naught if Washington beats Pittsburgh in next week's match-up. A Huskies win seals the 2013 Conference Challenge for the west-coast conference.
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Post by heznfire on Sept 14, 2012 23:44:19 GMT -5
Pittsburgh beats Washington, meaning that a Texas A&M win over NC State in Week 12 would force a tie between the SEC and Pac-12.
Under these circumstances, if there is a bowl game between a SEC and Pac-12 team, the outcome of the game would determine the winner of the Conference Challenge. If there is no bowl game between the two conferences, then the Pac-12 would win on the margin-of-victory tiebreaker.
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Post by heznfire on Sept 17, 2012 21:51:44 GMT -5
With all inter-conference user games complete, we have a tie between the Pac-12 and the SEC with 7-5 records.
If users between the Pac-12 and SEC face off in a bowl game, which may be likely with a national championship bout between South Carolina and California, that game will decide the winner of the 2013 Conference Challenge.
If this is not the case, the Pac-12 will win on the third tiebreaker (MOV in Pac-12/SEC user games).
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