Redraft Playoffs: Manually Reseed Or Just Abide By The System? (1 Viewer)

[the lone star]

So I was the commissioner of a work redraft league one year, and we had 8 teams make the playoffs. The first round was 1 v. 8, 2-7, 3-6, and 4-5. But it was a bracket style playoff, so it did not automatically reseed the highest ranked team vs. the lowest ranked team. So we wound up with 5 v. 8 and 2 v. 3. I wanted to manually reseed, so that #2 played #8 and #3 played #5, but after checking the settings, I realized that I could not have selected such an option at the beginning of the year. Furthermore, I had never discussed such an event with the rest of the league, so I just let the system dictate, instead of overriding it myself. Without disclosing it to the group ahead of time, I just felt it improper to intervene.

Seeds 5 and 8 were happy, but seeds 2 and 3 were not. If I had manually reset, seeds 5 and 8 would have been upset, while 2 and 3 would have been happy. There wasn't really a perfect solution.

What do you think I should have done? Should I have manually reset or not?

 

[Gally]

Was this the very first year of the league?  If not, it should have gone the way the previous seasons went.

If this was the first year of the league then this is an obvious situation that should have been discussed well before the playoffs started.  Playoff format is one of the first items discussed when putting a league together.

Since you didn't seem to see this coming ahead of time then you only have 2 choices.  First choice is to just say, the website rules.  It was listed on the website all year with this formats that is what we are doing.  Second choice is to put it to league vote of all teams not involved in the remaining playoffs.  Personally I would roll with the firat option since it would have been listed that way all year on the website.

 

[the lone star]

Was this the very first year of the league?  If not, it should have gone the way the previous seasons went.

If this was the first year of the league then this is an obvious situation that should have been discussed well before the playoffs started.  Playoff format is one of the first items discussed when putting a league together.

Since you didn't seem to see this coming ahead of time then you only have 2 choices.  First choice is to just say, the website rules.  It was listed on the website all year with this formats that is what we are doing.  Second choice is to put it to league vote of all teams not involved in the remaining playoffs.  Personally I would roll with the firat option since it would have been listed that way all year on the website.

Yeah, first and only year. I don't tend to do work leagues for more than a year due to turnover.

 

[the lone star]

Thanks though. It kinda sucked because none of us even thought about playoff reseeding and the site didn't allow me to select that option, so it escaped my mind too.