{"id":"wri-hs-explain-playoff-tiebreaker","audience":"high-school","category":"explaining","technique":"examples","title":"Explain a playoff tiebreaker to teammates with real numbers","free":false,"task":"Your JV teammates are confused about why you're not in the playoffs yet with the same record as Westbrook. Explain it in the team group chat in under 70 words, plain text: use your team's actual numbers as the example, say which tiebreaker decides it, and end with exactly what has to happen Saturday. Write a prompt that gets that message.","materialLabel":"League rules and standings (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"CENTRAL VALLEY JV SOCCER - Playoff rules\nTop 4 teams make playoffs. If teams are tied on points:\n1. Head-to-head result between the tied teams.\n2. If head-to-head was a tie (or they haven't played), goal difference (goals scored minus goals allowed).\n3. If still tied, coin flip by the league office.\n\nSTANDINGS (after week 9)\n3. Westbrook: 5 wins, 2 losses, 2 ties = 17 points. Goals for 18, against 12 (GD +6).\n4. Lincoln (us): 5 wins, 2 losses, 2 ties = 17 points. Goals for 15, against 11 (GD +4).\n5. Riverside: 15 points.\n\nOur game vs Westbrook on Sept 30 ended 1-1, so head-to-head doesn't break the tie.\n\nLast game: Saturday vs Oakdale (last place). Westbrook plays Riverside on Saturday too.\n- If we win and Westbrook loses or ties, we're 4th or better.\n- If we both win, it goes to goal difference: we need to win by enough to beat Westbrook's GD after their game.\n- Coach said \"just score a lot of goals.\" Not super helpful.\n\nGroup chat confusion: Devon thinks it's alphabetical. Priya thinks we already lost the tiebreaker because of the Sept 30 game.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":70},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for \"under 70 words\" and it often lands well over.","fix":"Cap each part: \"4 sentences, each under 16 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Explaining the rule in general","why":"The AI lists all three tiebreakers instead of saying which one applies to you.","fix":"Say it: \"Head-to-head was 1-1, so goal difference decides it.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"No real numbers","why":"The AI says \"they have a better goal difference\" without the +6 and +4.","fix":"Add: \"Use the numbers: Westbrook +6, us +4.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Ending without a plan","why":"The AI ends with \"Let's go team!\" instead of what Saturday requires.","fix":"Add: \"End with exactly what we need Saturday.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it gets pasted","why":"AI adds bold and headings by default, which show up as ** and # clutter in a group chat.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Sets a word limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)"]},{"label":"Names the tiebreaker","patterns":["goal difference","head.to.head","tiebreak"]},{"label":"Uses the numbers","patterns":["\\+6","\\+4","numbers"]},{"label":"Ends with Saturday","patterns":["saturday","end with","what we need"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown","no formatting","no headings"]}],"hint":"Teammates understand rules faster with their own numbers. Tell the AI which tiebreaker applies, which numbers to use and how to end.","rubricLabels":["Says the tie is decided by goal difference because the Sept 30 head-to-head game was a 1-1 tie (not alphabetical, and not lost on head-to-head)","Uses the real numbers: Westbrook is +6 and Lincoln is +4 (a 2-goal gap) on equal points","The last sentence says what has to happen Saturday (win against Oakdale, and by enough goals to pass Westbrook's goal difference if they also win)"]}