USTA H2H Tiebreaker for Partial Round Robin League?

[Ice-Borg]

Three teams tied in league record and individual courts won at end of season.

Next tiebreaker is H2H. Team A beat Team B. Team C never played Team A or Team B.

So is Team B eliminated by the H2H tiebreaker and then Team A and Team C move on to the next tiebreaker which is sets lost?

Thanks!

 

[drivophd]

The head-to-head tiebreaker generally only applies if one team has beaten all other teams. Otherwise you move on to the next one.

 

[Ice-Borg]

The head-to-head tiebreaker generally only applies if one team has beaten all other teams. Otherwise you move on to the next one.

Is there a specific USTA rule that addresses this situation?

 

[schmke]

Is there a specific USTA rule that addresses this situation?

Yeah, there is. It is in the USTA League Regulations. Google it, comes right up!

For those too lazy to do that:

2.03H(2)a Individual Matches. Winner of the most individual matches in the entire competition.
2.03H(2)b Head-to-Head. Winner of head-to-head match only if all tied teams have played each other and one team defeated all the teams that are tied.
2.03H(2)c Sets. Loser of the fewest number of sets.
2.03H(2)d Games. Loser of the fewest number of games.
2.03H(2)e Game Winning Percentage: Total games won divided by total games played
2.03H(2)f A Method to be Determined by the Championships Committee. Procedure to be announced prior to commencement of championship competition.

 

[Ice-Borg]

That is for round robin or single elimination tournaments for national championships.

I’m talking about a partial round robin local league end of season standings.

 

[drivophd]

That is for round robin or single elimination tournaments for national championships.

I’m talking about a partial round robin local league end of season standings.

There is no rule on the book nationally for this. Check your section’s local regulations. Odds are they won’t significantly differ from national’s championship regulations, though.

 

[Ice-Borg]

Very odd. My section rules adopt this same language for local leagues. But my local league has its own rules and leaves out the explanation and just lists second tie breaker as “H2H.”

 

[schmke]

There is no rule on the book nationally for this. Check your section’s local regulations. Odds are they won’t significantly differ from national’s championship regulations, though.

Correct, sections/districts can have their own rule, but in the absence of one ...

If a Section,
District/Area or Local League does not have a regulation in place to address a tie, the Section,
District/Area or Local League must follow the national regulation.

 

[Ice-Borg]

So since local rule only says “H2H” can I argue that Team A beat Team B, neither played Team C, so A makes it over B and Team A and C go to next tiebreaker? Or else Team A goes as they had most H2H wins?

 

[schmke]

So since local rule only says “H2H” can I argue that Team A beat Team B, neither played Team C, so A makes it over B and Team A and C go to next tiebreaker? Or else Team A goes as they had most H2H wins?

You can argue whatever you like I have no clue if your argument will be listened to.

Usually, whatever TennisLink shows for the standings is what they go with. I assume by default it implements the National rules and it requires someone to alter that with whatever local rule is used. Or perhaps a local rule gets applied locally and then whatever the league coordinator says goes. I would hope in this case the rule is documented clearly. Do you have a link to your local rules?

 

[Ice-Borg]

Says “Head to Head: Winner of Head to Head Match” as second tiebreaker. That’s it.

 

[GrassCourtFan]

Sounds like a poorly written rule, because it's implicitly assuming there's only two tied teams. You should ask whoever is running your local league, not random people on the internet, because they're the ones who will be doing the interpretation.

 

[Ice-Borg]

They have proven they don’t know what they are doing so I’m trying to research the correct way to interpret it before approaching them.