How is a "no contest" handled in the win/loss column?
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Games are canceled. Not a forfeit. So some teams may end the season with only 6 games played. Not sure how that would affect tiebreaker rules.
So now 2 of 6 games cancelled opening weekend. So at this point 4 teams will have 5 scheduled games, and 8 teams will have 6 scheduled games. Seems like it is going to be hard for any team to make it through without a cancellation, and you could easily see a team get 2 or 3 cancellations. It is going to be a little tricky to compare a 5-1 team to a 4-0 team in December.
The league has a tie breaking procedure to deal with this. Trying to remember where I saw it.
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It’s in this Wilmer piece towards the bottom.
Pac-12 sets COVID-19 cancellation policy for games, determines tiebreakers for seven-game season
Here are the Pac-12's participation thresholds for competition and tiebreaker scenarios for determining division champions and host of the conference title game.
www.seattletimes.com
The tiebreakers for crowning division champions are complicated and depend, in part, on the number of games played by the tied teams compared to the total number played across the conference.
Per the Pac-12:
“For example, if the average number of conference games played in the 2020 season is 5.25 (value of 5 when rounded down), a team would be eligible to win their Division if that team played 4 conference games.”
In the event of an unequal number of games played, teams would be considered tied if they have the same number of losses and are within one victory of each other.
In other words, a 4-1 team would be considered tied with a 5-1 team.
The top tiebreaker elements are:
1) Head-to-head results
2) Record in games played within the division
3) Record against the next highest placed team in the division (based on record in all games played within the Conference), proceeding through the division
4) Record in common Conference games
5) Team with the highest College Football Playoff (CFP) ranking
The Pac-12 championship game on Dec. 18 will be played on the campus of the higher seed. (The move to Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas has been delayed by a year.)
The team with the best record will host.
In the event the division winners have the same record, the following rules apply:
1) Head-to-head competition, if applicable
2) Record against the next highest-placed common opponent in the Conference (based on recording all games played within the Conference) proceeding through the Conference
3) Record in common Conference games
4) Team with the highest College Football Playoff (CFP) ranking
5) Highest ranking by SportSource Analytics following the last weekend of regular-season games
6) Coin toss
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Thanks! Very intense.
It is a little hard to think through, but at first glance it seems like playing only 4 games could possibly work to a team's favor, if it meant missing games that would have been losses. That in mind, the game tomorrow is probably of extra importance than a typical Division game.
It is a little hard to think through, but at first glance it seems like playing only 4 games could possibly work to a team's favor, if it meant missing games that would have been losses. That in mind, the game tomorrow is probably of extra importance than a typical Division game.
