wish SOM had a better tiebreaker

I finished in a 3-way tie for the wild card playoff spot and discovered that it does not go to the team that performed best in head-to-head competition among the 3. That criteria is the most obvious barometer of performance. Instead the tie is broken by each team's record inside its division -- a rule that rewards those who had a weak team or 2 at the bottom of the division and penalizes those who played in a division with 3-4 strong teams. .. The head-to-head performance isn't even among the 3 ways a tie can be broken -- but one of the methods is a coin flip. HAL musta been in a big hurry when he devised that rule...