Team's method is a distraction
I believe the answer is:
sideshow
'a distraction' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'team's method' is the wordplay.
'team's' becomes 'sides'.
'method' becomes 'how'.
'sides'+'how'='SIDESHOW'
'is' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sideshow that I've seen before include "Minor but diverting incident" , "Minor display adjacent to a larger one" , "affair at a fair" , "Subordinate issue" , "Subordinate production to the main event" .)