I am the commish of a 12 team, re-draft, 2 division, performance league, of which I use www.myfantasyleague.com. I have ran into an issue regarding the playoffs and I could really use the a bit of advise.
It has to do with playoff seeding. We have a 6 team SuperBowl Playoff along with a 6 team Toilet bowl playoff, where the division winners and division losers get a 1st round bye in there respected playoff brackets. I know this is an oversight in organization on my part, but there are no seeding instructions spelled out in out rulebook for some reason. Last year was the first year using MyFantasyLeague. Before that we used FLM and a web site I put together.
Enough background, here is the issue......
While using FLM in 2004, division winners got the 1st round bye, and I seeded the remaining 2 teams, in that division, #2 and #3, keeping all division teams on the same side of the bracket. Like the NFL.
Then the switch to MyFantasyLeagues.com happened last year, 2005 season. Since the seeded was not in the rulebook, I somehow did not seed the same way, for reasons that I have no clue. I left the division winners with byes, but I put the other 4 teams in a pool and seeded them based on record, using the following tiebreakers (which are the same tiebreakers used to determine the playoff teams);
Level 1 Head-to-Head
Level 2 Division Record
Level 3 Total Points Scored
Level 4 Most Salary Cap Money remaining
Level 5 Coin Flip
I did not take into account the divisional split that we had the previous years. No one noticed, I issued the payouts at the end of the year accordingly and we went on our way.
2006 season. Recently, I sent an email a week before the playoffs, stating all the playoff scenarios and a description of how the seeding works. I use the previous year's format just because that is the way I did it the year before. Once again with no complaints or issues from any of the owners.
Now, one week into the playoffs, one of the Division winners pointed out that I have done the seeding wrong and that I should fix it.
As the commissioner, I feel that changing this mid-stream, after the 1st round of playoffs are completed and the results are known, is not the way to handle this.
Obviously I can't ask for a vote because there are 8 teams involved in the 1st round of the SB and TB and their own agendas could sway their true stance on this issue, and I can't let a 4 person minority determine their fate. This decision will directly seal the fate of 4 of those 8, and my team is one of them, so even though I believe changing in mid stream is wrong, I need to be fair so that the teams in the league don't think my stance on this is being reflected by my Playoff survival.
I plan on sharing your point of view with everyone before making any decisions.
I am in a nasty little pickle here and I didn't know what else to do.
It has to do with playoff seeding. We have a 6 team SuperBowl Playoff along with a 6 team Toilet bowl playoff, where the division winners and division losers get a 1st round bye in there respected playoff brackets. I know this is an oversight in organization on my part, but there are no seeding instructions spelled out in out rulebook for some reason. Last year was the first year using MyFantasyLeague. Before that we used FLM and a web site I put together.
Enough background, here is the issue......
While using FLM in 2004, division winners got the 1st round bye, and I seeded the remaining 2 teams, in that division, #2 and #3, keeping all division teams on the same side of the bracket. Like the NFL.
Then the switch to MyFantasyLeagues.com happened last year, 2005 season. Since the seeded was not in the rulebook, I somehow did not seed the same way, for reasons that I have no clue. I left the division winners with byes, but I put the other 4 teams in a pool and seeded them based on record, using the following tiebreakers (which are the same tiebreakers used to determine the playoff teams);
Level 1 Head-to-Head
Level 2 Division Record
Level 3 Total Points Scored
Level 4 Most Salary Cap Money remaining
Level 5 Coin Flip
I did not take into account the divisional split that we had the previous years. No one noticed, I issued the payouts at the end of the year accordingly and we went on our way.
2006 season. Recently, I sent an email a week before the playoffs, stating all the playoff scenarios and a description of how the seeding works. I use the previous year's format just because that is the way I did it the year before. Once again with no complaints or issues from any of the owners.
Now, one week into the playoffs, one of the Division winners pointed out that I have done the seeding wrong and that I should fix it.
As the commissioner, I feel that changing this mid-stream, after the 1st round of playoffs are completed and the results are known, is not the way to handle this.
Obviously I can't ask for a vote because there are 8 teams involved in the 1st round of the SB and TB and their own agendas could sway their true stance on this issue, and I can't let a 4 person minority determine their fate. This decision will directly seal the fate of 4 of those 8, and my team is one of them, so even though I believe changing in mid stream is wrong, I need to be fair so that the teams in the league don't think my stance on this is being reflected by my Playoff survival.
I plan on sharing your point of view with everyone before making any decisions.
I am in a nasty little pickle here and I didn't know what else to do.