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Tennis Seeding Tiebreakers

  • Teams shall be seeded according to their Conference dual match win percentage.
  • Ties between teams with equal win percentages will be broken utilizing the following tie-breaker procedures:
2-Team Tiebreakers
When ties involve two teams:
  1. Results of head-to-head competition during the Conference-scheduled regular season.
  2. Each team’s winning percentage versus the team occupying the highest position in the final regular season standings, then continue down through the standings until one team gains an advantage. (2-0 is not better than 1-0 or 0-0; 0-0 and 0-1 are not better than 0-2)
    • When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing Conference win percentages, use each team's win percentage against the collective tied teams as a group, rather than the performance against individual tied teams.
  3. Highest ITA-ranked team based on the latest unpublished ITA rankings.
Multi-Team Tiebreakers (3+ Teams)
When ties involve more than two teams:
  1. Results from the collective head-to-head competition during the Conference-scheduled regular season among the tied teams in a ‘mini round-robin format’, ranking the tied teams by winning percentage from highest to lowest will be used to determine the seeds. (2-0 is not better than 1-0 or 0-0; 0-0 and 0-1 are not better than 0-2)
    • If during this process two teams remain tied with the same winning percentage, the two-team tiebreakers will be utilized, starting with head-to-head results.
    • If more than two teams remain tied with the same winning percentage, a second ‘mini round-robin format’ is implemented, restarting the process from step 1 of the multi-team tiebreaker policies (’mini round-robin’).
  2. If more than two teams are still tied following the mini round robin, seeds are determined by each of the tied team’s winning percentage versus the team occupying the highest position in the final Conference-scheduled regular season standings, continuing down through the standings until eliminating tied teams with inferior winning percentage until until one team gains an advantage.
  3. If multiple teams remain tied, teams will be seeded based on the latest unpublished ITA rankings