the.com/head to head records
the scoreboard that ignores your season and just asks who beat whom, directly, when it mattered.
means a tiebreaker stat tracking results only between the specific teams or players being compared, not their overall performance.
from borrowed from boxing and dueling logic, where the only record that matters is the one between the two people actually fighting; sports leagues adopted it to settle ties without a coin flip.
soccer standardoften outranks goal difference in league tiebreakers.
nfl usagefirst tiebreaker before division or conference record.
psychological weightplayers fixate on it more than stats justify.