What Are SubTiers?

In Semantic Mastery's weekly Hump Day Hangouts episode 288, one viewer asked what subtiers are.
The exact question was:
1) I understand tiers but What is tier 3.a, 3.b, 4.a, 4.b etc.? Why there is sub tiers?

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