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Tiebreakers

Tiebreakers

Use this page to define how your standings will be ordered. Your standings are based primarily on wins. After that, you may use the other tiebreakers listed below.
Wins
Tiebreaker Definitions
Pool Managers: Make sure that your written rules deal with the situation where the last survivors get eliminated on the same day, before the tournament ends. While this is technically a tie situation (and the tiebreakers below can still be used), what most people will do is revive those remaining survivors so they can continue on to the end. Since there is no system setting to handle this, just make sure your rules specify the way you want it to run.

If two or more people survive all the way to the end of the tournament, the tiebreakers specified above (if any) will take affect. If you have more than one tiebreaker, they are applied in the order listed above. If tiebreaker #1 breaks the tie, then tiebreaker #2 is not used. See below for more information on the tiebreakers available.

Total Score Prediction
You predict the total (combined) score of the Championship game. Whoever is still surviving going into the Championship game must make their prediction on the PICKS>Tiebreakers page before the Championship game tips off. Whoever is closest to the actual total score (either over or under), wins.

EXAMPLE: Pool Member 1 predicts a total score of 136 in the championship game. Pool Member 2 predicts a total score of 165. The final score of the 2015 Tournament Championship game was Wisconsin 63, Duke 68. The total combined score was 131. Since Player 1 was closer to that score with a prediction of 136, Player 1 wins.

NCAA Champion Pick
You pick the team that you expect to go all the way. If two people make it all the way through the final game, then the one who picked the team who made it further in the tournament wins. There are two options for the deadline to make your NCAA Champion Pick (see the Pick Deadline page). Most people will use the start of the tournament as the deadline to enter this tiebreaker, but you can also use the tip off of the Championship Game. The latter option is usually not as effective as there are only two teams to choose from at that point, and the likelihood that the remaining survivors will pick the same team is high.

EXAMPLE: Pool Member 1 selects Kentucky as their "NCAA Champion Team". Pool Member 2 selects Louisville. In the 2015 Tournament Kentucky made it to the Final 4 whereas Louisville lost in the Elite 8 round. Pool Member 1 wins.

Sum of the Seeds
This does not involve any additional picks. The system adds up the seed values of every winning team (or covering team if your pool is scored against the spread) that you picked over the course of the tournament. If two players make it all the way through the championship game, or are both eliminated on the same day, the one whose winning team seeds add up to the bigger number wins.

EXAMPLE: Pool Member 1 picks three #1 seeds, two #2 seeds, three #3 seeds, one #4 seed, and one #6 seed, for a "Sum of the seeds" value of 26. Pool Member 2 picks four #1 seeds, four #2 seeds, and 2 #3 seeds for a "Sum of the seeds" value of 18. Pool Member 1 wins with the higher "Sum of the seeds" value.