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Point differential tie breaker for In-season tournament is dumb? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by JuggernautSuperb5203@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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I was looking at the In season tournament standings and to me it looks like there could be a lot of tie breaking needed(especially for the wildcard teams). Head to head is the first tiebreaker, but it looks like this is not going to work everywhere (for example all of west group c teams could easily finish 3-1 with wins against each other).

The way I understand the wildcard is that the the top 2 teams that don't win their groups will be chosen, but there will be like 4 of those with tied records as well, so they will go to point differential. So we are basically choosing the teams based on who ran up the score against the wizards, spurs and grizzlies the most? Doesn't encouraging running up the score seem kinda dumb? Sorry if I misunderstood the format I'm just trying to figure it out.

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[–] UncleColli@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The real problem to me was how uneven the scheduling was. Philadelphia had played their fourth IST game before others had played their second. If point differential is in play, that’s an enormous advantage to know the exact target you are shooting for

[–] koenigsaurus@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah this has been a weird quirk of being a first-time event. In the future it could benefit a lot from having scheduled IST nights, maybe where two nights a week for 4 weeks are set aside exclusively for all teams to play their IST game. Would be even easier once there are 32 teams, with two nights evenly split into 8 games each.