Any leagues with no fantasy playoffs? (1 Viewer)

[tjnc09]

Are there any guys here who play in leagues that don't run the standard fantasy playoffs weeks 14-16 to determine league winner?

ie league winner is most points scored, best winning percentage, etc

If so, do you prefer that to the typical fantasy playoff system that most leagues utilize?

 

[zamboni]

My league is a cumulative total points league all the way through week 17 - no playoffs.

I like it better than a playoff league because it rewards the best season-long team rather than one that gets hot or is healthy during the playoffs.

The downside to cumulative points leagues is that you can be out of it very early with no title shot, but I can live with that knowing that the champion earned it all season long.

 

[rockaction]

My league is a cumulative total points league all the way through week 17 - no playoffs.

I like it better than a playoff league because it rewards the best season-long team rather than one that gets hot or is healthy during the playoffs.

The downside to cumulative points leagues is that you can be out of it very early with no title shot, but I can live with that knowing that the champion earned it all season long.

Love this idea, and that somebody on the board is in a league like this. Our points leader just lost in our league, and I'm not sure I like it, even though it gives me a clearer path to the championship. It should be the best team all year, but that means eliminating head-to-head entirely. 

Cuts down on some strategy and variance stuff, though, so there's a drawback to everything.   

 

[Ted Stickles]

In my main league, we split the pot into two and issue it (1st 50%, 2nd 30%, 3rd 20%) between the top three high point teams through Week 13 and the Playoffs winners.  I found this to be the best common ground as it always seems the best overall team does not with the fantasy Super Bowl.  Everyone has been happy with this allocation

 

[Ridcully]

I used to be in a league that was just total points, weeks 1-17, with no head-to-head at all.  Loved that format and greatly prefer it to H2H leagues, it’s a shame that it’s so hard to find leagues like that. 

 

[needanap]

We are in our 27th year of cumulative points league.  Somewhere along the way we added head-to-head and a week 15-17 super bowl playoff, but those are mostly afterthoughts.   It is all about the season long total points.

 

[Tool]

One of my leagues - which has been around a long time - just does best record through 16 games with a 1st, 2nd and 3rd finish.

 

[Gally]

My longest running league (since 1985) is best record through 17 weeks.  We have "position weeks" in week 4, 8, 12, & 16 where 1v2, 3v4, etc is the schedule for those weeks based on the standings heading into those specific weeks.  It's a 14 team league so you play everyone one time and the remaining 4 weeks are the position weeks.  We pay down 5 places and have a "last place bonus" where teams eliminated from the money spots over the last four weeks play for 1% of the total pot each week.  The pot going to the team scoring the most for that individual week.  This helps keep everyone involved for the entire season even if you are eliminated from a money spot. 

Tie breaker for record is most points scored on the year. 

 

[-OZ-]

I used to be in a league that was just total points, weeks 1-17, with no head-to-head at all.  Loved that format and greatly prefer it to H2H leagues, it’s a shame that it’s so hard to find leagues like that. 

I'd probably join a league like that if it were auction and either 2qb it super flex.

 

[Shutout]

I like the ideas  that some of you are doing.  Before I quit a few years ago, we had moved towards  rules similar to these and IMO its the way it should be. It seemed like every single year I found myself playing in leagues where some team would crush everyone all year long and then lose in the first round of the playoffs because that was the one week that the Colts had a down day or Arian Foster and AJ green both got hurt the same week or something. It always seemed hollow to watch some team with a couple of backup RBs and a random Ted Ginn type Wr that happened to have a hug game end the year with 8 wins and a title while the clearly best team had that one bad week and that was it. 

I was in favor of rewarding the season-long work versus the one week wonder.  

At one time I even played in a league or two where the top seed earned bye weeks. I can not think of a worse idea if magic football. There is nothing worse than earning a bye, watching your guys do their thing as usual when your fake team is "resting" and then when you play your first playoff game, your team has a down day or the real NFL team sits their starters, etc. Horrible.  

 

[Arodin]

 At one time I even played in a league or two where the top seed earned bye weeks. I can not think of a worse idea if magic football. There is nothing worse than earning a bye, watching your guys do their thing as usual when your fake team is "resting" and then when you play your first playoff game, your team has a down day or the real NFL team sits their starters, etc. Horrible.  

When my league of record decided to expand playoffs from four teams to six, it necessitated bye weeks.  We offset the issue of giving the best teams a boring week by awarding the bye teams "home field advantage" equal to a fraction of the points their starting lineup earns during the bye.

That actually worked...teams fight for the bye, both to get thru to the netx round and to get a small edge in the semis as well.  And if your guys have a career day it turns into a 6-10 point head start on the competition.

We've still had wild card teams into the Super Bowl, but it has mitigated a lot of the grief of bye weeks for us.

 

[Fariq]

I used to be in a league that was just total points, weeks 1-17, with no head-to-head at all.  Loved that format and greatly prefer it to H2H leagues, it’s a shame that it’s so hard to find leagues like that. 

I am going to possibly run a league like this next year. Might even be a keeper or dynasty league. I think what finally did it for me was a key Week 14 regular season with two playoff spots on the line. Three teams were in the mix for the final two playoff spots. Two were going at it head to head. The other got a free pass as his deadbeat opponent started Smith-Schuster and Mixon (neither played that week). 

Now, the playoff hopeful ended up obliterating the deadbeat anyway, but at 1:00 people were understandably mad. If that garbage determined a playoff berth I would have blown a fuse.