D3: Atlantic, New Jersey, New York City, Upstate

During the regular season play, competition points will be awarded as follows:

  • Match points
    • 4 points will be awarded for a win
    • 2 points will be awarded for a draw
  • Bonus points
    • 1 point will be awarded to a team that loses a match by 7 points or less
    • 1 point will be awarded to a team scoring 4 tries or more in a match
  • Total competition points will be match point plus bonus points

At the end of the league season, teams will be ranked within each group as described above for D2.

Eight (8) teams will advance to the playoffs.

  1. The top teams in each group will be seeded #1 to #4.
    1. The seeds will be determined by normalized competition points.  (Match points + bonus points)/matches played.
    2. If teams are tied in normalized competition points, then the team with the higher normalized points differential will be seeded higher.  Normalized points differential = (points for – points against)/matches played.
    3. If teams are still tied, then the team with higher normalized tries scored will be ranked higher.  Normalized tries = (number of total tries scored)/ matches played.
    4. If the teams are still tied, then a coin flip will be used to determine the rank.  The winner of the coin flip will be ranked higher.
  2. Seeds #5 to #8 will be those teams with that did not win their group who had the highest normalized competition points regardless of group.  
  3. The seeds #5 to #8 will be determined as described for determining seed #1 to #4.  NOTE: If two teams in the same group are tied with normalized competition points then the winner of the head to head game will be ranked higher
  4. Teams seeded #1 to #8 will advance to the play-offs.
    1. Play-off Match 1- seed #8 at seed #1 
    2. Play-off Match 2- seed #5 at seed #4
    3. Play-off Match 3- seed #7 at seed #2
    4. Play-off Match 4- seed #6 at seed #3
    5. Play-off Match 5- winner of Play-off Match 1 vs winner of Play-off Match 2 at the higher seed
    6. Play-off Match 6- winner of Play-off Match 3 vs winner of Play-off Match 4 at the higher seed
    7. D3 final- winner of Play-off Match 5 vs winner of Play-off Match 6 at the higher seed.