Everyone knows the East is terrible. Right now there are many teams in a race for the final couple of playoff spots. If there ends up to be a tie in rankings, how are they resolved?
Here you go. Straight from ESPN. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/standings Seeding tiebreakers The top eight teams in each conference qualify for the playoffs. The division winner with the best record in each conference is seeded No. 1, the other division winner is seeded No. 2 and the remaining six teams are seeded Nos. 3 - 8 according to their won-lost records. (Home-court advantage in all playoff series is determined by better won-lost record, not higher seeding.) In the event two or more teams are tied in the standings, a series of tiebreakers are applied to determine which team receives the higher seeding. Two-Team Tiebreaker 1. Better record in head-to-head games 2. Higher winning percentage in conference games 3. Higher winning percentage within division (if teams are in the same division) 4. Higher winning percentage against playoff teams in own conference 5. Higher winning percentage against playoff teams in opposite conference 6. Higher point differential between points scored and points allowed Three-Team Tiebreaker 1. Best head-to-head winning percentage among all teams tied 2. Highest winning percentage in conference games 3. Highest winning percentage within division (if teams are in the same division) 4. Highest winning percentage against playoff teams in own conference 5. Highest point differential between points scored and points allowed
Damn, I never realized all the different types of credentials that they have to use for tie breakers.
They very rarely have to go farther than the first 2. Actually, they rarely have to use any sort of tiebreaker. The other tiebreakers are just there for extreme cases.
