Tie Breaking

From the cambridge english corpus i concur.

Tie breaking. Two teams tie for a division championship second place or wild card spot head to head record will be used to break the tie and this should be relatively straightforward for first place or second place in the divisions because the teams will have played each other so often. English language learners definition of tiebreaker. An additional contest or period of play designed to establish a winner among tied contestants. Something such as an extra period of play or an extra question that is used to decide a winner when a game contest etc has ended with a tied score see the full definition for tiebreaker in the english language learners dictionary.

Waiting time should be a tie breaker when urgency of medical need and probability of successful treatment are roughly equal. In games and sports a tiebreaker or tiebreak is used to determine a winner from among players or teams that are tied at the end of a contest or a set of contests. Other tie breaking procedures only one club advances to the playoffs in any tie breaking step.