My turn for a commissioner messup (1 Viewer)

[kardplayer]

My league plays a 17 week regular season with playoffs happening during the playoffs. We love the format, but I have one glitch.

We are supposed to play each division team twice, and each team out of the division 1 time, with one exception that we play an out of division team a second time during Week 17. I was just looking at playoff scenarios and realized that week 17's games - which were supposed to all be non-division matchups are actually a mix of both division and non-division games. This will mess with tiebreakers in a big way as division records will now be uneven (some will have 11 games, some will have 10) - and we have a cluster of records - our #1 teams in each division are 9-6 and there are 2-3 8-7 teams lurking right behind them.

I see five options here:

1) completely draw all Week 17 matchups out of "a hat" - so that potentially all of the games switch

2) switch the opponents on only the two games that are "wrong"

3) leave it as is, but make them not count as division games for tiebreaker purposes

4) leave it as is, but make none of the games count for tiebreaker purposes

5) leave it as is, count everything for tiebreakers

Which would you do?

 

[Ignoratio Elenchi]

My league plays a 17 week regular season with playoffs happening during the playoffs. We love the format, but I have one glitch.We are supposed to play each division team twice, and each team out of the division 1 time, with one exception that we play an out of division team a second time during Week 17. I was just looking at playoff scenarios and realized that week 17's games - which were supposed to all be non-division matchups are actually a mix of both division and non-division games. This will mess with tiebreakers in a big way as division records will now be uneven (some will have 11 games, some will have 10) - and we have a cluster of records - our #1 teams in each division are 9-6 and there are 2-3 8-7 teams lurking right behind them.I see five options here:1) completely draw all Week 17 matchups out of "a hat" - so that potentially all of the games switch2) switch the opponents on only the two games that are "wrong"3) leave it as is, but make them not count as division games for tiebreaker purposes4) leave it as is, but make none of the games count for tiebreaker purposes5) leave it as is, count everything for tiebreakersWhich would you do?

In order of preference I'd say52 if you bring it to the league and everyone's ok with it413

 

[10tihwj]

Regardless of what people think of different tiebreakers, everyone in your league had access to the schedule and could have noticed the issue. Everyone stuck with existing rules and schedules IMO.

 

[Quibbler]

I'd say leave everything as is and measure division records by winning percentage (i.e. 7-3 beats 7-4).

 

[Warrior]

Yikes. Playoffs during the playoffs?

That's a headache waiting to happen, but a cool variation I guess.

 

[kardplayer]

Yikes. Playoffs during the playoffs?That's a headache waiting to happen, but a cool variation I guess.

We've been doing it this way for years. 60%+ of the money goes to regular season performance plus good edge for regular season performance (division winners get to keep an extra offensive player, draft goes 1-8 with 1 being the #1 seed and 8 being the #8 seed, and then starts serpentining at 1-8, 8-1, etc. So the #1 and the other division winner effectively get up to a two person offensive advantage - at least for week 1.