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IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
I'm glad that you found a format that you like, but most of us find total points to be extremely boring. Rotisserie just isn't as much fun as head-to-head. So if you guys are seriously wondering why so many of us play in head-to-head leagues even though we know full well that it adds extra statistical noise to the season's outcomes, that's why. It's just more fun that way. It's too bad that your team lost in the first round of the playoffs. I'm willing to bet that you've had teams in the past that got hot at just the right time and rolled to a championship over "stacked" teams as well. This stuff balances out and it's one of the things that makes fantasy football entertaining IMO.oukurt said:
delusional
Footballguy
It does suck. If my playoffs were last week i would have been out after spending all season working the WW, having a great draft and losing to a guy who never changed his line up ( bye weeks included )
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
I distinctly remember winning a league a few years back with Kevan Barlow and Rock Cartwright as my starting RBs. None of my playoff games were even close. Good times. For me personally, the opportunity for the right guys to get hot and fuel an improbable championship run is what makes head-to-head so great.
Utter Chaos
Footballguy
Our league has 3 divisions, 12 teams and a $75.00 entry fee. Division winners get $25.00 and the #1 seed gets an additional $25.00. I scored 70 points more than everybody else and tied for the best record at 11-3 (one double header week) which was at least 3 games better than the other 10 teams. Because I was in the same division as the other 11-3 team and they beat me twice I didn't get any of the cash payouts and was forced to play in the first round of the playoffs while an 8-6 team got a bye and $25.00.Rodgers got hurt, Hillis and BJGE didn't find the end zone, TO and Tampa Mike combined for 3 catches for 37 yards and I was shopping for my 6 year old daughter's birthday and didn't get home in time to take Antonio Gates out of my lineup. Needless to say my season is over.I'm all for rewarding the best team in the regular season.oukurt said:I only had Adrian Peterson, Arian Foster, Drew Brees, Miles Austin, Hakeem Nicks, and Malcom Floyd to work with though. Fluke week and bubye after dominating all season. So I can sympathise with some of you guys that got bounced as well.I did find a couple of new leagues that has a 3 week playoff with total points determining the winner. Love this type of playoff format.thatguythere said:Life's not fair, why should fantasy football be fair?So your team had a bad week, you should have drafted a little better for the playoffs.
acjohnson83
Footballguy
I have Rodgers but I avoided the Week 14 disaster with a bye. But it got me thinking, are there any leagues that allow you to make a halftime substitution, and if not, why not?
What if you could make one "substitution" during the actual game as long as you make it before the start of the 3rd quarter. I don't know if CBS or Yahoo etc. would technically accomodate this request... but it would do away with at least some of the anguish we're talking about. We hear a lot on this forum about mimicing "real football"... well, in real football if your prize QB gets a concussion, you don't spend the rest of the game with 10 players on the field, you put in a backup!!
On the other hand, if Calvin Johnson has 1 catch for 12 yards at the half and Santana Moss is blowing up, do you take him out and hope Moss's streak continues? Many more gametime management scenarios would evolve.
It would also make Sunday afternoons more involved for us FF players.... I've always thought for a game that is about football, Sunday afternoons we all pretty much just watch from the sidelines during the actual game.
What do you all think? I don't really see a downside to this.
What if you could make one "substitution" during the actual game as long as you make it before the start of the 3rd quarter. I don't know if CBS or Yahoo etc. would technically accomodate this request... but it would do away with at least some of the anguish we're talking about. We hear a lot on this forum about mimicing "real football"... well, in real football if your prize QB gets a concussion, you don't spend the rest of the game with 10 players on the field, you put in a backup!!
On the other hand, if Calvin Johnson has 1 catch for 12 yards at the half and Santana Moss is blowing up, do you take him out and hope Moss's streak continues? Many more gametime management scenarios would evolve.
It would also make Sunday afternoons more involved for us FF players.... I've always thought for a game that is about football, Sunday afternoons we all pretty much just watch from the sidelines during the actual game.
What do you all think? I don't really see a downside to this.
footballnerd
Footballguy
interesting concept, but no infrastructure (website) to support it.
acjohnson83
Footballguy
i figured that it didnt exist but it seems like a pretty obvious fix... email the commish, verified by time stamp, and he adjusts?
Utter Chaos
Footballguy
That could get really confusing. So if your QB gets hurt in the first quarter on Monday night you wouldn't have anybody to sub (unless you had his backup or the other teams QB). And if you sub do you get the points of your starting QB + the replacement QB for the second half or do you get all of the replacement QB's points?
rocketsauce
Footballguy
acjohnson,
I like the idea of the substitution system, but it would take a fairly extensive revamp of any of the current league management software and system out there.
It'd be a fun concept to try to knock out manually, just for the purpose of giving it a try. Send me a PM and we'll see if we can set something up for 2011 (god willing) where we can run it on a free commish site, and see what we can do to make it work. We'd have to put together a league full of very interested and active owners in order to even make it worth it.
I like the idea of the substitution system, but it would take a fairly extensive revamp of any of the current league management software and system out there.
It'd be a fun concept to try to knock out manually, just for the purpose of giving it a try. Send me a PM and we'll see if we can set something up for 2011 (god willing) where we can run it on a free commish site, and see what we can do to make it work. We'd have to put together a league full of very interested and active owners in order to even make it worth it.
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