How would you rank these seeds?
Head to Head
A beat C
B beat A
C beat B
Team -- Div. Record -- Total Points
A -------------- 3-1 ------------- 1,000
B ---------------2-2 ------------- 1,050
C -------------- 2-2 ------------- 1,100
Tie Breaking Scheme:
1.Head-To-Head Competition
2.Divisional Record
3.Total Points Scored
4.Points Scored Head-to-Head
A,C,BHead to head does not apply as they all split 1-1
A is top seed based on divisional record.
C beats B on either head-to-head or total points (see below)
I don't know if your rules are actually more explicit, but you have a couple potential landmines in them as written here. In this case it all works out, but there are a couple cases where you could have arguments on how to interpret the rules:
1) head to head - For 3-way ties, the NFL only applies this if one team either sweeps or loses to both of the others. Yours is not clear if that is how you want to interpret it or not. Without further guidance, I'd think you'd have to use overall h-t-h winning percentage, but someone may say "that's not how the nfl does it" and raise a stink.
2) You don't specify whether to go back to the first criteria once the first team is seeded. I.e., once team A is given the top seed because of divisional record, it is not clear whether you should go back to head-to-head between B and C or keep going down the list to total points. You got lucky in that both methods give the second seed to C. The NFL goes back to the top of the list, but without specific rules stating that you should do that, some team might argue that you should keep going down the list.
