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We have played a 7-team competition, all seven teams met, we eliminated the team with the lowest points. After that the remaining six teams played knock out games and the three winning teams will go direct to semi-finals.

We decided that 4 teams should be picked to go for semi-final and that the best loser will join the other three to make it four teams to battle at the semi-final and final.

During the quarter final games, one team is beaten 2-0, another is beaten 3-0 and the third team is beaten in a penalty shoot-out by 4-0.

Now should you want a best loser to join the other three teams making four teams to play in the semi-final, who among these three teams would be in the best losers position.

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It would have been better if there was predetermined criteria to select best loser. As there is no indication of that criteria, selecting best loser can be done in following ways:

  1. Taking FKL Cup - Best loser rule : Since third team lost in penalties as opposed to other who were beaten in regulation time. So third team qualifies as best loser.
  2. Looking at points or position after league matches : Among those three teams which performs best in league matches progresses to next round.
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    +1 for the first sentence. Making up the competition rules as you go along is pretty much a guaranteed way to end up with disgruntled teams when try lose out based on rules which didn't exist at the time.
    – Philip Kendall ♦
    Aug 30, 2017 at 4:19
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    This should have been discussed beforehand but as it is you take the team that lost in overtime. In american football high-school down to pee-wee there are often playoff rules. The most common is that you get a max of 13 points for a win and minus 13 in a blowout loss but in OT winner gets +1 even though they win by 6 most likely and loser -1. In soccer if I ran a league I would probably put the max difference to 4-5 goals and OT win loss come down to half a goal.
    – Coach-D
    Aug 16, 2019 at 7:02
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Ideally, the rules of the tournament should be defined before it starts, but now that we're here:

In my opinion, the best loser out of 3 teams lost in the quarter-finals (or 1/6 finals in your case) is the one who performed better in the games involving only those 3 teams during round-robin phase or even who finished higher in the table.

Because this way the loser will be most probably the strongest one. Why? Here's a demonstrative example:

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In my opinion you have to set quarterfinals with the best 6 teams as following:

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I would say the third team, since they lost on a penalty shootout, thus implying that they were able to hold on to a draw throughout regulation and extra time. As for the other two teams, I infer from your post that they lost in regulation outright.

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You're creating a problem that doesn't need to be solved, when better methods exist.

A quarterfinal round can be complete with only six teams. This naturally requires two byes, and it makes sense to have those be the two highest-ranked teams from pool play.

They are crossed in semifinals such that the first-ranked team plays the lowest-ranked quarterfinal winner, and the second-ranked team plays the highest-ranked quarterfinal winner, as done by a number of professional competitions.

Given that the games have already been played, the fourth place should go to the team with the best performance in the "quarterfinal" which is the team who achieved a draw, not either of the teams who were beaten.

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