tiebreaker scenario

[Francis Hsu <francis@ai.mit.edu>]

For Toronto or Indiana to have a better record then ours, one of them would
have to win all their remaining games while we lose all of ours.  Since
they play each other twice, one of them winning all of their games means
the other ends up with a worse record than the Celtics could have.  So
in this situation, we make the playoffs.

I think the only tiebreaker we need to worry about would be if Toronto and
Indiana split their remaining 2 head-to-head games, and both win their other
ones.  If we lost all our remaining games, we'd have a 3 way tie.

The procedure for a 3 way tiebreaker:
1.  Best head-to-head winning percentage among all teams tied.
Our record against Toronto (2-2) + Indiana (3-0) is 5-2
Toronto's record against Indiana (3-1) + Boston (2-2) would be 5-3
Indiana's record against Toronto (1-3) + Boston (0-3) would be 1-6

Ours is the highest winning percentage, so we would win.

Francis