So many ways, as league commissioners, that we could go, but I'm not that into plugging in season-long averages. In going by FGB standard scoring, Joe Mixon, as an example, gets 12.8 points (season average) when he's put up 8.9 over the last 4 and would have had a tough matchup vs. the Bills? Not that any solution is going to be 100% fair, but that's a tough one to me. I don't think using averages, projections or hypotheticals is a fair way to determine a championship.
Just spit-balling, but if this game gets wiped off the books, does it make any sense to give a team its highest-scoring bench players from Week 17, swap them in for any Bills/Bengals players they started, and just live with that?
This game was obviously cancelled after the game began, but if you found out that Mixon was out with COVID an hour before kickoff with every other game in the books, we have an emergency pickup rule in place (especially for the playoffs) where you could get one of his backups, if available and if you didn't already have Samaje Perine, Trayveon
Williams or whoever was active. Our rosters lock once the playoffs start, so this was mostly put in place if you went into the postseason with 2 kickers or 2 QBs and both got hurt before your next game. If you go into the playoffs with only one kicker or QB, then that's on you and you don't get a pickup if he gets hurt. Anyway, under these circumstances, where you're potentially inserting bench players as a solution to this very unique issue, if you started Mixon over Jamaal Williams, you'd be pretty lucky. If you had someone like David Montgomery as your highest-scoring RB on your bench, it would suck, but at least you're going with players on your roster who you would have plugged in if you knew ahead of time Mixon was out. If you chose to go into the playoffs with Josh Allen and no backup, then you get the points he scored before the game was cancelled, that's the risk you took and that's it. Thoughts?