Page playoff system
The page playoff system is a special form of playoff that is mainly used nowadays for important championships in softball and curling . In softball, it is used at world championships and Olympic games. The championship final of the Australian football league A-League is also played in this mode.
history
The system was developed by Percy Page in 1931 for the Australian Football Championship in the state of Victoria , where it was used until 1971. The Australian Rugby League championship was played from 1954 to 1972 according to this system. In softball it has been used at the World Championships since 1990 and was also used at the 1996-2008 Olympic Games . It was also used in the championship finals and the relegation of the German softball Bundesliga . The Canadian Curling Association introduced it in 1995 on the occasion of the national championships for men, and in the following year also for women. At the international level, it was introduced at the 2005 World Curling Championships , but not yet at the Olympic Games. Since the 2011 season , the system has also been used in the Indian Premier League (IPL) in cricket .
regulate
After the round robin (each against each other ), the four best-placed teams compete against each other in the semi-finals of the play-offs ( English semi-final ). The third and fourth placed contest the so-called first semi-final , the first and second placed the second semi-final .
The loser of the first semi-final is the first team to be eliminated from the play-offs and is fourth in the final ranking, the winner reaches the semifinals ( final ). There he plays against the loser of the second semi-final for a place in the final ( grand final ), while the winner of the second semi-final is already determined as the first final participant. The loser in the “small final” takes third place in the tournament, the winner plays in the “grand final” against the directly qualified team for the tournament victory.
With this system, the two top-ranked round robins, who already have a place in the top three, are given an advantage. In addition, after a defeat in the first play-off game, both teams have another chance of becoming the overall winner, while the third and fourth placed in the round robin have to win all the matches.
In the IPL, the game between the first and second placed qualifier 1 , the game between the third and fourth eliminator , the game of the semifinals qualifier 2 and the final is called final . In the previous two years, however, different names were used for the first three play-off games.
example
Results of the page playoffs of the softball tournament of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing (the numbers in the gray boxes correspond to the placement after the round robin round):
| Semi-final ( semi-finals ) |
Bronze match ( final ) |
Finale ( grand final ) |
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| 1 |  United States
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4th | |||||||||||
| 2 |  Japan
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1 | United States
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1 | |||||||||
| Japan
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4th | ||||||||||||
| Japan
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3 | ||||||||||||
 Australia
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3 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Australia
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5 | |||||||||||
| 4th |  Canada
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3 | |||||||||||
This results in the following final placements: 1. Japan, 2. United States, 3. Australia, 4. Canada.
Remarks
In a tournament with two groups, from which two teams each qualify for the semi-finals, the page playoff system is an alternative to the crossover system. The group winners play game 1 and the group runners-up play 2. It favors the group winners and prevents that the two runners-up get into the final, as z. B. was the case at the European Football Championship in 1992 . In contrast to the crossover system, the second final participant has a shorter break to regenerate due to the additional game.
At the World Curling Championship , an additional game will be played between the loser of the second semi-final and that of the semifinals to determine the winner of the bronze medal. Reaching the first semi-final is no longer enough to secure a medal.
Web links
- Rules of the International Softball Federation (ISF) - Explanations of the page playoff system, p. 7 ff. (PDF; 1.25 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2013 Season Schedule ( English , PDF; 572 kB) IPL. Retrieved May 24, 2013.