Tiebreakers

[TrialByFire]

If you get as bye, what do you get for tiebreak percentages? Such as, does getting a bye give you better tiebreaks than actually winning a match. I was under the impression that it does, but we were having a debate about it on our team site. Judge?

[Anusien]

Byes don't affect tiebreaks one way or another. A bye in round 1 generally helps your tiebreakers because you don't end up playing against somebody who then goes on to play in the loser's bracket. You only want to play against winners.

[TrialByFire]

Gotcha. Also opponents who drop negatively affect you tiebreaks don't they? So you would avoid the 0-2 droppers

[cdr]

An 0-2 opponent dropping is bad for you only in that they don't have a chance to come back and improve their record.

You should encourage your 0-x former opponents to stay in and your x-0 opponents to drop :)

[quicksilver]

An opponent that has a match win record lower then 33% gives you a 33% as their match win for tie breakers. So having an opponent that went 0-2 drop is going to be the same as having an opponent who went 0-3 and the same as 1-2 for your tie breakers.