Re: _Baseball Tie-Breakers_, Barry Laws, Jr. wrote to Howard Brazee on 01 Oct 
97:
 BL> In baseball, they probably now look at head-to-head matchups. Let's
 BL> say next year the Giants, Rockies, and Dodgers have a 3-way tie for
 BL> first in the NL West. Now if the Giants-Rockies season series was 7-4
 BL> and the Giants-Dodgers season series was 6-5, then the Giants would
 BL> win the NL west. I don't think they have tie-breaker games in baseball
 BL> anymore, like they did in the 4 division format and the original
 BL> format (when the NL and AL were one division each).
Wrong.  Had the Giants and Dodgers tied this year, there would have been a 
one-game playoff in Candlestick Park (the Giants won a coin flip) on Monday.  
I'm not sure how three-way ties are handled, though. 
... Multitasking:  Start download; grab a beer; watch some basketball.
--- JetMail 0.99alpha23
---------------