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FFL Doubleheaders (1 Viewer)

Beau Tocks

Beau Tocks

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Our league is pondering using hth doubleheaders next year in our 13 week season. Do you who use this format find it somewhat convoluted. I was wondering if it takes anything away from the straight one on one weekly match ups. The way i'm looking at it is double your pleaure double your fun as well as sorting out the truly worthy vs. the unworthy when it come to playoff elgibility.

 
I use it in one of my leagues. Our double is coming up in week 11. It does take away some from the 1 on 1 matchup since your focus is split, but I haven't heard anyone complain about it. I would rather deal with it than not playing one of the teams in my league.

 
I was in one league that did it years ago and I loved it. Helped equalize the situation that you are one of the high scorers but play the higher scorer for that particular week - that way you end up with a 1-1 record rather than 0-1.

 
I'm definitely going to be looking into double headers for next year...

Anybody know which FFL sites allow for such a format? I don't think ESPN does...

 
We've played double headers each week in one of my leagues for several years. It is a great way to remove some of the "luck factor" without getting completely away from head-to-head matchups.

 
MFL allows you to do it.

we have Doubles each week, for the whole season. Its more fun, and is does cut down the luck factor.

At first we had a few single and a few double header weeks and I don’t recommend doing this. you may score a lot in a single week and have a bad week in the double header and it just screws the whole thing.

so if you do it I advise you do it for all the weeks not just some.

it makes you league be H2H witha 10% blend of rotisserie

 
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In week 1 when every team should be at full strength.
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I'd actually push for them deeper in the regular season, after the byes. It also rewards active owners who constantly try and improve throughout the year. Pushing them later keeps everyone active and gives 2 games in one week to possibly catch up / make the playoffs.If you start 0-2 out of the gate, much more likely to lose interest from 1-2 owners who start 0-5.
 
dandeo4 said:
I'm definitely going to be looking into double headers for next year... Anybody know which FFL sites allow for such a format? I don't think ESPN does...
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MFL, also the best option to remove some of the luck factor is victory point scoring. Example 12 team league, you still get 2 points for each HTH win but also the top 4 teams in total points for the week get 4 points, middle 4 teams get 2 points, and bottom 4 teams get 0 points. Each week you can score between 0-8 points between your HTH games and victory points earned.
 
I think it makes sense for 12 team leagues. Basically, we play our own division 2X (6 games) and the 0ther 8 teams once. So we need 14 regular season games and 3 weeks of playoffs. If you don't want a week 17 SB, than you have to do a DH. We do ours in week 11, after all the byes are done. Basically let Sportsline make regular schedule. Then schedule the last division opponent not on the schedule to be the 2nd game in the doubleheader. Works well (though lot riding on that week), and can play SB in week 16.

 
fantasyplayer said:
We've played double headers each week in one of my leagues for several years. It is a great way to remove some of the "luck factor" without getting completely away from head-to-head matchups.
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:lmao: We've done it every week now for a few years and the league loves it - for all of the reasons mentioned in this thread. We use MFL and it works fine. The best site to run D/H's is Fanball (or AOL) - to my knowledge, they are the only sites that allow setting different lineups for each game. But, it is Fanball... :-( We chose to give up the 2 different lineups for the reliability and customization of MFL.(That said, I've run my wife's league on AOL this year and haven't had any problems. FYI.)
 
my league(fanball) uses them right in the heart of bye weeks. weeks 6-7-8, it forces everyone to pay attention and it helps faciltate trades. helps weed out the pretenders from contendors. those who work on there team year round and are not afraid to take chances come out of the doubleheaders with and edge usually. i also incorporated them to make our schedule where each team plays a odd amount of times(1x each for non div opp, 3x each for div opponent) to basically make any tiebreaker scenario very easy to breakdown.

 
I think it removes some luck factor, but it still cant remove it all. I run a 10 team DH league and have the 4th highest total points and I'm way out of the 4 team playoff contention based on record. Of course, my points against is 10 points higher than anyone else in a 125 point average weekly scoring league. In general, I think it rewards better teams as you have less of a chance for a low scoring team piling up lucky wins and sneaking into the playoffs.

 
We have been using them in our 12-team, 2 division MFL (myfantasyleague.com) league for a few years now. Having 2 double-headers allows us to play each team in our own division twice and all teams in the other division once during the regular season (16 games in 14 weeks).

It definitely affects how I draft as I'm looking to try and avoid players with byes during the double header weeks. Also, it is kinda nerve-wracking in that a bad week can result in two losses and a major position shift. Overall though, I like it.

 
I am in a league that plays double headers. There are 3 divisions with 4 teams each. Everyone plays their division 3 (9 games) and everyone else 2x (16 games) Week 1 is just head to head and weeks 2-13 are double headers. I think everyone in the league really likes playing each other twice, and you get 3 cracks at your division opponents.

 
The week right before byes start, I think that is week 3.

One matchup is in-division, one matchup is out of division. All of our division games are non-bye week (1-3 and 11-13).

 
We play doubleheaders every week in the regular season (through week 13). :goodposting:

We use RTSports.com

 
Jeff Pasquino said:
3C said:
In week 1 when every team should be at full strength.
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I'd actually push for them deeper in the regular season, after the byes. It also rewards active owners who constantly try and improve throughout the year. Pushing them later keeps everyone active and gives 2 games in one week to possibly catch up / make the playoffs.If you start 0-2 out of the gate, much more likely to lose interest from 1-2 owners who start 0-5.
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:unsure: We used to have them in one of my leagues but they were voted out. I liked them.
 
Jeff Pasquino said:
3C said:
In week 1 when every team should be at full strength.
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I'd actually push for them deeper in the regular season, after the byes. It also rewards active owners who constantly try and improve throughout the year. Pushing them later keeps everyone active and gives 2 games in one week to possibly catch up / make the playoffs.

If you start 0-2 out of the gate, much more likely to lose interest from 1-2 owners who start 0-5.
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This works for us and we use three straight weeks of DHs.12 team league I commish, 2 divs of 6 owners, play your div twice, other div once. We have DHs after the bye weeks are over in weeks 11, 12, and 13 so teams are at full strength. This leads up to our playoffs in week 14 (6 teams make it.) So, if things were to fall just right, the 3-6 team currently in last place in one div has a chance still to make the playoffs. It really does keep everyone interested.

Edit: We use MFL for our league. Greatness.

 
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We use double headers. 3 divisions 1st week is the only week we don't use a double. The regular season last until week 13. Each team plays their division 3 times and everbody else twice. We use AOL.

 
Beau Tocks said:
Our league is pondering using hth doubleheaders next year in our 13 week season. Do you who use this format find it somewhat convoluted. I was wondering if it takes anything away from the straight one on one weekly match ups. The way i'm looking at it is double your pleaure double your fun as well as sorting out the truly worthy vs. the unworthy when it come to playoff elgibility.
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i proposed this idea last season and we used it. the league hated it and i'll never live it down.we wanted to get 16 games in 13 weeks for a balanced schedule, we doubled up in 3 weeks.no matter how much logic is put into this, the teams that have bad weeks during the "double headers" (we called them "gang bang" weeks) will raise hell. when they miss the playoffs, they will point to those week(s). it caused a near mutiny in our league.we did it to try to correct one luck factor (unbalanced scheds) but it was offset by a different luck factor (the extra penalty of having a bad week in certain weeks).they are fun, but the pissing and moaning from an owner that just went 0-2 in a week is unbearable. (we did it the 1st 2 weeks, so some teams started 0-4 going into week 3, we didn't want to do any double headers during bye weeks).it's worth exploring, but be careful. be sure your leaguemates can handle it emotionally if they go 0-2 (mine couldn't).
 
We use them every week and love them. We're a 10-team league. So for the first 9 weeks, you play everybody twice. Wks. 10/11, you get 4 of the other 9 teams in the league a 3rd time.

Wk. 12, we have a nic twist, an above/below DH. So if you're in 3rd, you play the 2nd & 4th place teams, etc.

Then a 4-week playoff that begins Wk. 13.

 
I play in leagues with D/H and without them.

The system that I prefer the best in single games, but have 1 or 2 wild card playoff slots based upon either Total Points (or if you want to get more precise "Breakdown Record" - on CBS the term for what a team's record would be if they played every single team every single week).

 
We have three a year. One before they byes start and two after the complete leading into the playoffs. It gives you a shot at the playoffs with four games the last two weeks.

 
Yes, one DH a year.

12 teams 3 divisions. We play our own division the first three weeks and last 2 weeks with the final week a inter divisional DH. It makes for a crazy division record if someone has a great or poor week. Like most leagues, the playoff tie-breaker breakdown is ridiculous.

 
Beau Tocks said:
Our league is pondering using hth doubleheaders next year in our 13 week season. Do you who use this format find it somewhat convoluted. I was wondering if it takes anything away from the straight one on one weekly match ups. The way i'm looking at it is double your pleaure double your fun as well as sorting out the truly worthy vs. the unworthy when it come to playoff elgibility.
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If you wanted to sort out the truly worthy vs. the unworthy, go to a total points system. Head to head in fantasy football is a joke, purely luck of the draw.
 
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