JohnnyU
Footballguy
We use MFL. In one league that I just took over as commissioner late in the season because the previous commissioner has resigned and is leaving the league for personal reasons. We use victory points scoring. Awards are: Win-2 tie-1 loss-0. Points will also be awarded based upon points scored per week. Scoring is separated into 3 tiers. The top 4 weekly scorers in tier 1, the middle 4 weekly scorers in tier 2 and the lowest 4 scorers in tier 3. Awards are: Tier 1 - 2 points., Tier 2 - 1 point, and tier 3 - 0 points.
We have a listed rule for handling ties during the playoffs that no one ever used. The commish never set league to use a tiebreaker player in the playoffs, even though it's in the rules. Good thing we've never had a tie in the playoffs. It states, For playoff games, each team will designate a player whose points will count only in the event of a tie. If the teams are still tied after the tiebreaker, total bench points will be used to break the tie.
The commissoner has a setting he can change to have teams enter a tiebreaker player, no problem. For the current playoffs I set this for playoff teams to use a tiebreaker player when they submit their lineup. However, the setting throughout the year was "allow ties". We've never had a tie in the regular season or playoffs and they are rare, but came close during the regular season a couple of times. My issue is that I don't want to have to keep changing this setting between the regular season (don't use tiebreaker player), then set it to use the tiebreaker player when the playoffs start. Which is best, just have the highest seed advance during the playoffs in the event of a tie and remove tiebreaker player, or have the tiebreaker player during the regular season and playoffs? Again, I don't want to have to keep flipping this setting between the regular season and the playoffs, thus the reason why if we use the tiebreaker player during the playoffs I want to leave it alone during the regular season too. My preference is to put it like it was during the season, where we don't use it, and remove the rule using a tiebreaker player for the playoffs, and advance the higher seed if there is a tie during the playoffs. That would be for next season and beyond. For this year, since the rules say use a tiebreaker player, which we've never used, we will.
We have a listed rule for handling ties during the playoffs that no one ever used. The commish never set league to use a tiebreaker player in the playoffs, even though it's in the rules. Good thing we've never had a tie in the playoffs. It states, For playoff games, each team will designate a player whose points will count only in the event of a tie. If the teams are still tied after the tiebreaker, total bench points will be used to break the tie.
The commissoner has a setting he can change to have teams enter a tiebreaker player, no problem. For the current playoffs I set this for playoff teams to use a tiebreaker player when they submit their lineup. However, the setting throughout the year was "allow ties". We've never had a tie in the regular season or playoffs and they are rare, but came close during the regular season a couple of times. My issue is that I don't want to have to keep changing this setting between the regular season (don't use tiebreaker player), then set it to use the tiebreaker player when the playoffs start. Which is best, just have the highest seed advance during the playoffs in the event of a tie and remove tiebreaker player, or have the tiebreaker player during the regular season and playoffs? Again, I don't want to have to keep flipping this setting between the regular season and the playoffs, thus the reason why if we use the tiebreaker player during the playoffs I want to leave it alone during the regular season too. My preference is to put it like it was during the season, where we don't use it, and remove the rule using a tiebreaker player for the playoffs, and advance the higher seed if there is a tie during the playoffs. That would be for next season and beyond. For this year, since the rules say use a tiebreaker player, which we've never used, we will.
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