How does your league handle games that are tied? (1 Viewer)

[Spock]

so why not just use decimal scoring in the first place and not just as a tie-breaker?

I set that up in 1990 and it's worked out fine. Guess I'm just old school in that if it isn't broke, don't fix it. 

Also, I don't mind ties during the regular season. 

 

[tangfoot]

Most scoring systems are:

1 pt for every 10 rushing yards

1 pt for every 10 receiving yards

1 point for every 20 passing yards

Maybe most scoring systems were like that 27 years ago, but all of my leagues have been decimal scoring since the turn of the millennium.

 

[Gawain]

See a fair amount of ties stand in regular season and highest seed advances in playoffs.

If you have two divisions, what do you do in the Super Bowl if to #1 seeds tie? What if it's a #1 seed from one division and a #2 seed from the other division?

 

[Man In The Box]

See a fair amount of ties stand in regular season and highest seed advances in playoffs.

If you have two divisions, what do you do in the Super Bowl if to #1 seeds tie? What if it's a #1 seed from one division and a #2 seed from the other division?

Higher seed wins a tie in my league. There is no such thing as two number 1 seeds. The two division winners are the top two seeds and each get a bye. The team with the better record is the number one seed. If they have the same record, the team with more regular season points is the one seed. 

 

[Tanner9919]

This raises an important point: What is the purpose of divisions? Is it just another attempt to map the NFL onto fantasy? In your case, it sounds like you have four divisions, which seems particularly silly. I successfully lobbied my 16-team league to switch from four to two last year, but honestly, I don't know why we have them at all. My 14-team league did away with them completely a few years ago, mostly because Yahoo's default scheduling is a mess (it will have you play some teams twice, regardless of division, and other teams not at all), and the commish didn't feel like adjusting it manually every year.

The one scenario where I think divisions make sense is if you have history behind the rivalries AND if you play everyone in the division an equal number of times. For example, if you have a 10-team league, each divisional opponent can face off twice, plus a single game against the teams in the other division. Heck, you could have a 16-team league with a 14-game regular season consisting of nothing but divisional match-ups. But if you're just doing it to mimic the NFL, why even bother?

good stuff.we use the 10 teamer you speak of. we use decimals for rbs. we basically so not allow ties at all ever. we shouldnt even use two 5 team divisions.btw theyre actually confereces not divisions.but we should be using total pts. our tie breaks are record h2h conf record total pts and then  bench player totals. never ever allow a tie itll wreak havoc on all teams instead of affecting  the two teams involved only. we ha rnt had a tie in a long time but specifially put rules in place to stop them.