The Dutch Topklasse (top flight) is getting ready for a very tight relegation battle this season. With only a couple of games left, the bottom 5 sides are all on equal points. It looks like NRR might come into play for as a decider.
The league is built up of 3 phases, a full league with all 8 teams, followed by a phase II where the top 4 and the bottom 4 are split in 2 groups, playing each other once, with points carried from phase I. The finals are then played between the top two teams after phase II, on a best-of-three basis. The bottom team in the bottom group after is relegated.
The current situation is that Quick Haag are top with 22 points, and already certain of a finals-spot. They are followed by Dosti on 19, and ACC on 13 - and mathematically able to overtake Dosti and reach the finals. The rest of the teams - HCC, VRA, Hermes/DVS, VOC, and Excelsior - all have 10 points. One of them will get themselves safe on the next matchday, the rest will go into a very tight race against relegation.
It's been a very strange season with ups and downs for all of the bottom 6 teams throughout the season. ACC recovered well after an initial string of close defeats, HCC have looked like they were in serious trouble halfway through the season, VRA and Excelsior have failed to convert good starts and landed in a losing rut, and VOC have picked up their points throughout the season in a fairly regular fashion. On August 3rd, another team will put themselves in a safe position. The rest of them will have a very nervous three games ahead of them.