Tiebreakers on Live Tourney Leaderboards
In Live Tourney, there are a handful of places where you can see tournament standings based on scores including online leaderboards, flights and status admin views, printable results reports, and TV leaderboards.
If you are wondering how Live Tourney determines standings of multiple players or teams with the same score, look no further.
USGA Tiebreaker
At a high level, we use the USGA scorecard tiebreaker method which can be summarized as follows:
“If the tying players have the same score for the last round or if the competition consisted of a single round, we determine the winner based on the score for the last nine holes, last six holes, last three holes and finally the 18th hole.”
For more information, visit the USGA’s written documentation on the topic.
Example
Lets look at a real Live Tourney leaderboard and see how this plays out in actuality. The following is a 4 person scramble event where two foursomes tied for first, but Live Tourney’s leaderboard decided to put the “Story, Conroy, Moran, and Tagge” team at the top position on the leaderboard.
As per the aforementioned USGA tiebreaker method, Live Tourney is programmed to list ties depending on who won the final 9, 6, 3, then 1 (if necessary) holes. In this example, the final 9 hole scores did not break the tie ,thus, the tiebreaker was solved using the final 6 hole scores where the “Story, Conroy, Moran, and Tagge” shot -6 vs their opposition’s -5. As a result, this group manned the top spot on the leaderboard.
Flights
If you are doing post round flighting in Live Tourney and auto assign flights, it will break the field into equal parts depending on the amount of flights created. In the following example from the flights and status page, where 5 flights were created for the same scramble event, you can see multiple teams scored -5, yet were broken into different flights. In this example, the top team on the list would have won the USGA tiebreaker, so the tournament coordinator would likely want to manually put the top -5 team into the 1st place of flight 4 by changing their flight.
