tiebreaker
Example Sentences
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If all three teams go 1-1 in round-robin play, a tiebreaker based on point differential will be used to determine the two finalists.
From Los Angeles Times
If you need a sudden death tiebreaker, you can be very complicated, but you have to be fair.
From Literature
The Sooners won the meet on a tiebreaker.
From Los Angeles Times
Baker Mayfield won the NFC South in each of his first two seasons with the Buccaneers, but lost out to the Carolina Panthers this time around on tiebreakers after the Atlanta Falcons won on Sunday.
The New England Patriots won on Sunday but had to settle for second spot with Denver owning the tiebreaker and they will host the Chargers, who rested their starters, next week in Foxborough.
From BBC
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