Best Record Payout Dispute... (1 Viewer)

[comet909]

Here's the sceanario. There's a payout for best record. According to the posted league rules, the prize is for "BEST RECORD".

No tie breaker is specified in the league rules. In addition a precedent was set earlier in the year when two teams tied for the weekly high score and it was announced that they would "split the weekly high score prize". There was no tie breaker discussed at the time for that prize.

(For what it's worth the default playoff seeding tie breaker is head to head record.)

Team A has the advantage in head to head victories.

Team B however has more points on the year.

Should the commisioner use a head to head record tie breaker despite the fact that the rules do not specify such, or just leave it a tie and split the prize?

Please vote on what you would consider the fair way to handle this. I'll post a link to this thread to my league mates so that they can see the results and maybe that'll help with a final decision.

If nothing else this can serve as a lesson to all to consider all possibilities and post them in your league rules.

Thanks for your input.

 

[Chase Stuart]

Teams split the payout, but if anything, I'd go with most points as the tiebreaker and not H2H.

 

[Godsbrother]

I don't see how you can start using tiebreakers when none are specified in the rules. Split the money.

 

[Snotbubbles]

Unless a tie breaker is specified you have to split the money.

 

[BobbyLayne]

This one should be easy (and the 1st 10 votes were 100% for a split). Specify a tiebreaker for next season; nothing you can do this year except pay them both.

 

[hook014]

I don't see how you can start using tiebreakers when none are specified in the rules. Split the money.

Exactly.

 

[Crusaderfan]

You have to split the money since you have no tie breaker in the rules. BTW - most of the tie breakers in my leagues are most points gets top spot

 

[Grigs Allmoon]

I don't see how you can start using tiebreakers when none are specified in the rules. Split the money.