The America East volleyball season concludes on Sunday and still much is left to be determined for the America East tournament that will begin on Friday, Nov. 20. Here's a look at the tiebreaks heading into Sunday matches.
Tie-Break Criteria. Ties shall be broken from the top of the standings down. In the event of a tie between two or more teams, the tie shall be broken using the following criteria in order
i. Winning percentage in conference matches versus the other teams with which it is tied (i.e. head-to-head competition).
ii. Winning percentage in conference sets versus the other teams with which it is tied.
iii. Point winning percentage in sets versus the other teams with which it is tied. Point winning percentage is computed by dividing total points won by total points played (i.e. points won plus points lost).
iv. Winning percentage in conference matches versus the other conference opponents in descending rank order. In the event of arriving at another group of tied teams when comparing records, each team’s record (winning percentage) versus the combined tied teams is used rather than the performance versus the individual tied teams.
v. Total sets won in conference matches.
vi. Point winning percentage in conference sets. Point winning percentage computed by dividing total points won by total points played (i.e. points won plus points lost).
vii. Draw conducted by the Commissioner or his/her designee.
Once a tie is broken among three or more teams, immediately return to (1) to break the tie between the remaining teams.
Current Standings
Albany, 11-1
New Hampshire , 10-1
UMBC, 6-5
Stony Brook, 5-6
Binghamton, 5-6
UMass Lowell, 1-9
Hartford, 1-9
Sunday Schedule
Binghamton at UMass Lowell, 1 p.m.
Hartford at Stony Brook, 1 p.m.
New Hampshire at UMBC, 1 p.m.
Possible tiebreaks
Head-to-head
New Hampshire and Albany
- Can happen if New Hampshire wins.
- Tiebreak 1: Teams split head-to-head
- Tiebreak 2: Teams split sets 3-3
- Tiebreak 3: Teams split points (138 to 138)
- Tiebreak 4: Both teams would be unbeaten vs. all conference teams
- Tiebreak 5: Both teams would have won 33 conference sets
- Tiebreak 6: Point winning pct.
- Currently:
- UNH has won 855 of 1,445 points or .59169550
- Albany has won 1,005 of 1,825 points or .55068493
UMBC and Stony Brook
- Can happen if UMBC loses to UNH, Stony Brook beats Hartford and Binghamton loses to UML
- Tiebreak 1: Teams split head-to-head
- Tiebreak 2: Stony Brook wins tiebreak by winning 4 sets compared to UMBC’s 3 in head-to-head meetings
UMBC and Binghamton
- Can happen if UMBC loses to UNH, Binghamton beats UMass Lowell and Stony Brook loses to Hartford
- Tiebreak 1: Teams split head-to-head
- Tiebreak 2: Teams split sets 4-4
- Tiebreak 3: Binghamton wins the tiebreak in points, 188-184
Stony Brook and Binghamton
- Can happen if Stony Brook loses to Hartford and Binghamton loses to UMass Lowell
- Tiebreak 1: Teams split head-to-head
- Tiebreak 2: Stony Brook wins tiebreak in sets, 5-3
Three-way ties
Stony Brook, Binghamton and UMBC
- Can happen if Stony Brook beats Hartford, UMBC loses to UNH and Binghamton beats UMass Lowell
- Tiebreak 1: Teams are all 2-2 vs. each other
- Tiebreak 2: Sets
- Stony Brook is 9-6
- Binghamton is 7-9
UMBC is 7-8
- Stony Brook wins 3-way tie and would be No. 3 seed
- Goes back to head-to-head (see above for head-to-head tie)
- Binghamton wins head-to-head tiebreak with UMBC in points.