Sorry, just quoting the language that was used in the past. The plan mentions a coin flip in the two way and a draw in the 3 way. Regardless, coin flip/draw, same difference. The seed is left to chance and it's equal odds/probability between who gets what.

 

What I'm asking is whether or not the fact that LCA, Dunbar, and Lafayette could all be tied would mean that there could be a flip between LCA and Lafayette for the 2/3, and then when happens if Lafayette winds up being the one who get the #3 in that one.

 

Is it nothing because Lafayette was also tied with a team that had the tie breaker over Dunbar in head-to-head wins, so Dunbar is the #4?

 

Or is it that Lafayette now is in a two way tie with Dunbar for the #3/#4 spots because Lafayette and Dunbar would then have to flip, which is what you do for another 2 way tiebreaker?

 

I disagree that the seed is left to chance initially. The three-way tie-breaking mechanism in the 43rd District is as follows, and I quote: "(1) Head to Head with tied teams, (2) Pull out of 2 hats: 1 school name pulled out of a hat and then pull a seed spot out of another hat to match with school name pulled out."

 

So, if there were to be a three-way tie, the first tie-breaker is based on performance, not chance.

 

In the hypothetical we have been discussing, LCA would be the #2 seed with a 3-1 record, Lafayette would be the #3 seed with a 2-2 record and Dunbar would be the #4 seed with a 1-3 record in the games played among the three teams tied. The tie would thus have been broken and there is no need to go any further. Only if all three of the teams tied were 2-2 against each other would you get to the second step of the three-way tie-breaking mechanism of drawing names out of a hat. Again, there is no mention of a "coin flip" in the three-way tie-breaking mechanism.

I disagree that the seed is left to chance initially. The three-way tie-breaking mechanism in the 43rd District is as follows, and I quote: "(1) Head to Head with tied teams, (2) Pull out of 2 hats: 1 school name pulled out of a hat and then pull a seed spot out of another hat to match with school name pulled out."

 

So, if there were to be a three-way tie, the first tie-breaker is based on performance, not chance.

 

In the hypothetical we have been discussing, LCA would be the #2 seed with a 3-1 record, Lafayette would be the #3 seed with a 2-2 record and Dunbar would be the #4 seed with a 1-3 record in the games played among the three teams tied. The tie would thus have been broken and there is no need to go any further. Only if all three of the teams tied were 2-2 against each other would you get to the second step of the three-way tie-breaking mechanism of drawing names out of a hat. Again, there is no mention of a "coin flip" in the three-way tie-breaking mechanism.

 

 

K, I think we have some differences in semantics but were saying the same thing on a lot of levels.

 

The way I'm understanding what you are saying, the "head-to-head" in a three way tie isn't the teams tied record against one another, it's their record against the group that they are tied with.

 

Where I was confused: I thought the "head-to-head" was your head to head record against each team individually (i.e., not collectively). That's why I was thinking that the "three-way tie" actually became a two way tie for #2 between LCA and Lafayette. I was also wondering what that would mean if Lafayette would up being the #3 because they would then be tied with Dunbar and the head-to-head record of between the two split. Given that, I didn't know if another two team tiebreaker would be used.

 

Why I was confused: the wording "head-to-head record with tied teams" is a bit ambiguous. I read it to mean, "individual head-to-head record versus each team you are tied with, each held in isolation", instead of the "head-to-head record versus all of the teams you are tied with".

 

Hope that makes more sense now, and thanks for clearing it up.