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Yes, it was tied to two decimal places.
Very creative alternative to the traditional solutions. Do you have this in any of your leagues?
We do this in our dynasty baseball league.
I like the creativity, but I don’t like team A having to outscore 2 teams in order to finish in first place.
No but we had something similar, changed it when the NFL went to 18 weeks.
I forgot, we do have highest scoring picked non-starter as a tiebreaker in a couple of leagues. My initial post was related to standings tiebreakers....oops.
We tried this one year when there was a semi-final tie. The problem became the team that won their game outright had to then beat two teams. Sadly, there is no good way to adjudicate the outcome of a tie after the fact. IIRC, we ended up having two SB games. Team A vs Team B and Team A vs Team C (with final game prize pool cut in half for each game). First place was supposed to be $1,000 and second place $500. Team went 1-1, so that team ended up with $750, Team B won $500, Team C won $250. Since everyone was unhappy by that outcome, that was probably the best resolution.
I prefer having it be the highest scoring starter. If you go with the non-starter you are rewarding an owner for a bad lineup decision. hhahahahaa
We did this also.
We have decimals to two places and still had two ties this year. Really odd. We list three bench players in order for our tie breakers. Usually backup QB is the top one listed for each team.
You can have this for the entire playoffs and have half the teams eliminated each week. This would lessen the schedule luck factor for the playoffs. You wouldn't have to change the playoff format (number of teams that make the playoffs or number of weeks that the playoffs take up). Just have half the teams eliminated each week based on overall scores. Interesting way to go. I might like it better this way to minimize playoff luck.
IMO, the fairest way to play fantasy is to play All Play every week. For people that haven't heard of it, its's when you play EVERY TEAM each week. In a 12-team league, you would play 11 games each and every week. Same thing for the playoffs. Set the cutoff for however many teams get eliminated each week of the playoffs. This ensures the best teams each week in the playoffs advance.
In that case you can't use higher seed. It's better used for leagues without divisions.
Depends on what your rules have for determining seeds. We usually seeded the teams AFTER the playoff teams were determined. It wasn't like the NFL where a team with a losing record had a higher seed just because it won a division. For example, 3 division winners made it and 3 next best teams (either by record or total points). Once the 6 teams were determined, we ranked the teams (some leagues were by record, some leagues were based on total points).
while this may be the "fairest" way to do a league it makes it more like roto style in baseball and is essentially just going with total points. Yes, total points and AP record will vary slightly (i looked at my leagues over a 5 year period to compare) and teams would move at most 2 or 3 spots and it was 99% of the time in the middle third of the standings. Best All play record and most points were always the same for the data set I reviewed.
One of my strangest seasons was when our league was hosted by ESPN. My team was light years ahead of everyone else in my league. I think I averaged 40+ points more than any other team. I was the #1 or #2 scorer every week. But fantasy being what it is, I had a 7-6 record going into the last week of the regular season. On ESPN's worldwide fantasy team rankings, I was ranked 18th out of 2 million teams. Their Top 25 fantasy leaderboard had 20 teams that were undefeated, 4 teams with 1 loss, and me with 6 losses. I needed a win to make the playoffs (which I got) and then steamrolled the other opponents in the playoffs, but I almost got bamboozled with what far and away was the best fantasy squad I ever put together.
We're not coming up with a solution for this week. Since unaddressed in our rule book, the Commish made a command decision all have accepted. This discussion is for what we put in the rule book for subsequent years.
What was the command decision?
I have never understood divisions in FF for just these reasons. I have only played in leagues where there are no divisions until just recently (Zealots league). Since that is a free league I don't really pay much attention to the format aspect as I use it more for figuring out player values for dynasty to use in my other leagues. I think division leagues make playoffs even worse for just the reasons you mentioned. It has the potential to really screw good teams if the chips fall the wrong way.
Higher seed.
I don't mind that as it then gives added importance to the regular season.
A 12-team 3-division league lends itself to symmetry with the current 14-game fantasy regular season: each division opponent twice, and each non-division foe once. With no divisions, the asymmetry of your opponents can also lead to inequities.
A nice way around the symmetry issues is to play everyone once (11 games in a 12 team league) and then 3 "position" weeks where 1st v 2nd, 3rd v 4th, etc. You can space those position weeks evenly through the season and it takes care of the lack of symmetry.
Do you know of league management software that seamlessly allow this structure?
Surprised the lower seed accepted that. I don't think I would have if wasn't in the rules ahead of time.
No. Since you don't know the matchups in a position week you can't plan for those matchups. As far as the other weeks to make them assure of play every team only once I believe you have to manually enter them but it's something that can be done before the season starts and then it's done. It's really fairly simple.
Since the week already occurred any situation short of a coin flip would favor one team over another. What solution would both sides accept knowing that whatever solution was used favors one side or the other?
Not fair to the team that won outright. Shouldn't have to beat two opponents. No way that team should have any chance of coming in third.
Ewww
If you were the lower seed, just what would you have done to "not accept it"?
