Potential three-way tie scenario brewing in UAA men’s soccer

Carnegie (5-0) plays at Rochester (4-1) this afternoon. Meanwhile, Chicago (4-1) is at Brandeis. The UAA names all teams with the most points as co-champions, but the automatic berth is awarded through the following tiebreaker. It could get a little crazy:

1. Head-to-head: We’d have the perfect scenario of Carnegie beating Chicago, Chicago beating Rochester, and Rochester beating Carnegie.

RESULT: Push.

2. Road results: This is only applied when all teams that are tied have played the same number of road games. Chicago will play four, while Rochester and Carnegie both will play three.

RESULT: Push.

3. Points earned against succeeding teams in the standings: If all three teams finished tied at 6-1 at the end of the conference season, then their only blemishes will have been to each other.

RESULT: Push.

4. Most wins.

RESULT: Push.

5. Fewest goals against: Through five games, here are the goals allowed by each team.

Carnegie – 1
Rochester – 2
Chicago – 3

RESULT: Too early to tell. Carnegie would have to give up at least one goal for this three-way tie scenario to happen.

6. Most goals scored (up to three per game): This is obviously in Carnegie’s favor.

Carnegie – 11 (one deducted because they scored four against NYU)
Chicago – 7
Rochester – 6

RESULT: If it gets to this point, Carnegie is the heavy favorite.

7. Coin flip: Oh dear.

So as a Maroons fan, what do you hope for? The most obvious choice is that Chicago takes two clean sheets, and Carnegie and Rochester get into a high-scoring game this afternoon. But we’ll know much more later today.