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I ask this because I had the rare distinction that I went to a last resort tiebreaker in one of my tournaments last night and had do it twice: scheduling a second round tiebreaker game. I normally do this for 3+ way tie ties in Round 1 to determine X playoff spots (using the WBC formula between the tied teams if H2H does not provide proper resolution).

I do real-time simulation on the final days of First/Second Round Pool Plays to manually schedule tiebreakers if at all possible. and the first time was from the Pool E/G groups ending early and Game 7 was properly scheduled and played the next day when F/H closed out. It only played out as I was able to schedule the game in the league schedule editor.

However, the second time did not play out. This happened on the Pool F/H side of things. Pool H had a tie at 1-2 for the final spot into the Quarterfinals. I scheduled Game 7 between Nicaragua and Venezuela for the right to advance to the Quarterfinals. Canada advanced instead on an auto-advance, even though I scheduled the seventh game. Based on WBC rule, Canada would have been eliminated on that tiebreaker which rules Runs Allowed against (RA) tied teams divided by Innings Played on Defense (IPD), as they had the worst RA/IPD.

Did Canada loop hole the rule because they were the host country or is this not applicable at the present time? Is their a way to make that playoff tiebreaker the preliminary round W-L record if that is possible?