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Highest scoring team, did not make the playoffs (1 Viewer)
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fred_1_15301
Footballguy
Wow!!! You must be the first person this has ever happened to..............
notdarkyet
Footballguy
Awww.
Challenge Everything
Footballguy
fred_1_15301
Footballguy
I thought all of the responses making fun of me could cheer me up. Of course it won't end well, as long as its fun.
Big 'N Tasty
Footballguy
How many years have you made the playoffs when another team, that scored more points than you, didn't? Maybe it was just your time.
Chaka
Footballguy
I suspected as much.I hope this makes you feel better:
footballnerd
Footballguy
Happening to me right now, except I'm barely making the last playoff slot as of this week. Crossing fingers. 
DrJamesAndrews Fan
Footballguy
I know the feeling. I'm 6-6 with Highest scoring average. Must win this week to get in. 4 of my 6 losses where to the High score of the week.
Nemesis
Footballguy
Don't really like this rule..........sometimes you're deciding on taking the 5th best scoring team and bumping the 7th best scoring team. Teams could be SO close together in scoring but one team could potentially have a MUCH better record and get bumped.For my league, we implemented a slightly different rule that says the Scoring Champ and ONLY the Scoring Champ MUST make the playoffs (and would bump the lowest seed).If you're the 2nd highest scoring team........you get no such help.......and as luck would have it, this rule is coming true this year in our league. (and I am one of the 2 teams that might be bumped b/c of it. If it happens to me, I have no qualms about it.)
sandlotshrink
Footballguy
We have two divisions. 1st place in each division determined by record and gets a first round bye. Second place teams are also determined by record. 5th and 6th place (Wildcard Teams) are determined by points scored. Highest 2nd place team plays lowest WC team.
Neil Beaufort Zod
Footballguy
Things like this should never happen. A random event like a schedule should not keep a fantasy team out of the playoffs. All you can do is draft and pick up players who will score points, and this guy did it better than anyone in the league. But other teams are going to the playoffs? Any of the solutions (total points, all-play, power ranking like CBS, special wildcard spot for top point-scorer, etc) would be good solutions. But something should be done.
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
10 team leagues do not need two divisions.Use one division, The top four teams make it on record, then the next two teams with the highest point total will be your final two playoff team regardless of record.
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PewterFan
Footballguy
FUBAR
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It all depends. A team may have high points for the season in a league but could have gotten a majority of the points in 4 or 5 games and was below average in the remaining games. Does this team deserve a playoff spot over the consistent scoring team that won more games?
Neil Beaufort Zod
Footballguy
I'm right. He did it better than anyone in the entire league. That's what I said, and that's the truth. He has the most points. The random luck of a pre-generated schedule is the only thing that cost him a spot...and gave it to someone else. Unlike an NFL team, he can't control how many points the other team scores. He can only control (to a degree) how many points his team scores, and his team scored the most.
Neil Beaufort Zod
Footballguy
That's a fair question, but I think so. If all you can do is control how many points you score, the one who scores the most did the best. "Winning more games" only means they caught the "right" teams in the random schedule.I suppose your scenario is possible in an all-play as well, where you could totally dominate four weeks but get crushed in eight others. But really, I'm not sure how likely that is. In any case, I suspect it would be much more rare than what he's experiencing now, and therefore an improvement.It all depends. A team may have high points for the season in a league but could have gotten a majority of the points in 4 or 5 games and was below average in the remaining games. Does this team deserve a playoff spot over the consistent scoring team that won more games?
tombonneau
Footballguy
We have a similar rule; however, it's only if the league's highest scoring team doesn't make the playoffs, they replace the final #3 seed in their division.Pretty good rule that will certainly come into play this year as ironically both of the #5 teams in each division are the top scorers within 1 pt of each other.
proteus126
Footballguy
No divisions, 12 team league, 6 teams make the playoffs.
The lowest-scoring team is 9-3 and will be in the playoffs (weeks 14-16). He is the lucky one.
The highest scoring team is 6-6 and playing another 6-6 team in the last week of the regular season. The winner is in, and if the highest scoring team loses he is in an iffy position to also get in.
I am the 3rd highest scoring team and am in 1st at 10-2. The spread from #1 to #3 is only 20 points, however. My team has been solid all season long.
The 5th highest scoring team will probably miss the playoffs (5-7 now) in favor of the dude who is 9-3 with the worst scoring. He is the unlucky one. He has averaged about 14 more points per game than the 9-3 person. But he still has a chance, so maybe justice will be done.
-Will
The lowest-scoring team is 9-3 and will be in the playoffs (weeks 14-16). He is the lucky one.
The highest scoring team is 6-6 and playing another 6-6 team in the last week of the regular season. The winner is in, and if the highest scoring team loses he is in an iffy position to also get in.
I am the 3rd highest scoring team and am in 1st at 10-2. The spread from #1 to #3 is only 20 points, however. My team has been solid all season long.
The 5th highest scoring team will probably miss the playoffs (5-7 now) in favor of the dude who is 9-3 with the worst scoring. He is the unlucky one. He has averaged about 14 more points per game than the 9-3 person. But he still has a chance, so maybe justice will be done.
-Will
theplayer11
Footballguy
The major flaw with head to head is that the best teams sometimes don't make the play-offs. It sucks because the best team is the team that scores the most total points..period.
PewterFan
Footballguy
XHis team slept behind the wheel 6 times. This isn't a points total league, so why are you defining his team as such?
PewterFan
Footballguy
Sure, if you're in a points total league. But in a H2H league, the best team advances furthest in the playoffs.
FUBAR
Footballguy
only if your definition of best includes luckiest.
Mr.Pack
Footballguy
Similar thing in my league. The 3 Division Winners get in, the next 2 best records, and the top scorer remaining who is not in the playoffs.The team in question is 7-5, tied for the second best record in the league. He loses the tie breaker for 2nd place in his division, and thus eliminates him from the playoffs while a 5-7 team gets in because he has the highest point total of the remaining teams.
Thank you. May I have another?I suspected as much.I hope this makes you feel better:
theplayer11
Footballguy
OK..let me clarify...the best team over the regular season was the team with the most points. The major flaw in fantasy football is unlike real football, you can't control how many points the other team scores.
-baller
Footballguy
so, you thought it would make you feel better to let us know you scored the most points?dude, you're like one of those players that gets all excited by how many points he scored in a loss and dances around flexing his bicep.at this point, maybe think about changing your name.
NatronIsMean
Footballguy
I'm 44 points out of 1st in points, and 5-7. I won last week, but the week before I lost by .12 points... And that's the story of the season. Oh well, break out the violin for me please.
Neil Beaufort Zod
Footballguy
I'll try again, and you let me know what part doesn't make sense: "All you can do is draft and pick up players who will score points, and this guy did it better than anyone in the league."
Neil Beaufort Zod
Footballguy
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Die
Footballguy
How about a team that lost 2 stud RBs to injuries for a month, and struggled to score because of it? But by playoff time, that team is healthy and outscores everyone? Are they not the best team?For this year, imagine there is a team out there with Tony Romo and Steven Jackson. Both got hurt. Maybe that team's scoring suffered greatly. But they make the playoffs, and both are healthy, and they blow out everyone en route to winning their league's title. Best team?
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-baller
Footballguy
incorrect.if I score 1000 one week and only 50 the other 9 weeks to lead my league in points, while everybody else averages 135 to send me to a 1-9 record, is my team the best?
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Mozeta
Footballguy
You definitely would have the most potential.
Neil Beaufort Zod
Footballguy
I understand you're trying to use an absurd hypothetical, but realistically it's not possible. Even trying to be realistic you'd have to tank the games on purpose or not use the waiver wire or something else to come into the area code of what you're trying to propose. If you had a 250-point week and the rest 50s...you wouldn't be leading the league in total points. If you broke your league record and then set records for futility every other week you wouldn't be leading the league in total points. What you're suggesting isn't possible if you set a lineup of starters. Some players could have fantasy performances like that but an entire managed lineup cannot over 10 weeks. The bottom line is that if you score the most points, you did the best job as a fantasy owner since all you can do is score points. If the luck of the schedule keeps you out of the playoffs, it's bad for the league-- except the owners who need luck to stay afloat.The guy in this conversation did what he's supposed to do (pick players who score points) better than anyone else in the league. Either you don't think a fantasy owner is supposed to pick players who score points or you think the OP is lying. Not sure which it is but I don't think I can help you from here.
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ShaqAttaq
Morally Ambiguous
happened to me last year with brady, and i also finished under .500. #1 points against is the safest route to fantasy failureHappened to me last year and I also finished under .500
culdeus
Footballguy
Lemme guess. He's got Turner, Farve, maybe Jennings. All guys that put up monster games occasionally, but not consistently. Guy wins like 180-120 half the weeks and when his studs hang single digit games he loses 140-145. Getting consistent scorers is another component of fantasy football. Especially if you don't award PF guys playoff spots.
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