what problems do you see with this playoff format? (1 Viewer)

[Kanaka]

Hey Guys, I'm trying to figure out a way of doing 2 weeks per round in the playoffs.  I have a 12 team league - 1 division with top 6 teams entering the playoffs. That I can't change. Do you think this would work?

12 week regular season - 11 weeks - everyone plays each other once. Week 12 Victory points or play the average for the one week.

Week 13 - Top 2 seeds get the bye for week 13 only. 6 vs 3 and 5 vs 4

Week 14 - final week of 6 vs 3 and 5 vs 4 and first week of 3 vs 2 and 4 vs 1

Week 15 - final week of 3 vs 2 and 4 vs 1 and first week of superbowl 1 vs 2

Week 16 - final week of superbowl 1 vs 2

I thought of just starting the whole thing earlier and every round having it's own week, but felt the regular season was to short. It looks a little crazy and I may just stick with the normal 13 weeks regular season with 3 weeks of playoffs.  Any thoughts?  Thanks guys

 

[Arodin]

I'd say go ahead and have the 11-week regular season, rather than having week 12 different.  Then you can play the wild card as a single-week contest in week 12 (while the top 2 seeds are on bye), and have your remaining playoff rounds in weeks 13/14 and weeks 15/16.  Personally, I'd prefer that to playing doubleheaders in playoff weeks.

An option if you feel an 11-week season is too short, is to play doubleheaders in-season, perhaps limited to the weeks with no NFL byes.  If you open the season with 2-3 doubleheaders, you can easily play a full schedule in the shorter timeframe.

Pretty sure there isn't going to be a "right answer" here as a lot of these options are personal preferences that will differ from owner to owner.  Try to find what makes your particular owners happiest.

 

[Kanaka]

awesome advice! Thanks Arodin

 

[Gally]

We have a position week for week 12.  For that week 1st vs 2nd, 3rd vs 4th, etc.  It makes it like a mini playoff week to finish of the regular season.  We have done this for many years and it works well.  

For the playoffs we just have a 2 week superbowl.  Other weeks are 1 week games.

 

[Kanaka]

Hey Gally, that sounds like a cool way to do it as well.  Is your league on myfantasyleague.com? How do you set up that 12th week as the commissioner?

 

[Gally]

Hey Gally, that sounds like a cool way to do it as well.  Is your league on myfantasyleague.com? How do you set up that 12th week as the commissioner?

Yes we do it through mfl.  Once week 11 concludes you set up the schedule manually based on the standings.

 

[Kanaka]

awesome, thanks!

 

[Mr. Irrelevant]

I'd say go ahead and have the 11-week regular season, rather than having week 12 different.  Then you can play the wild card as a single-week contest in week 12 (while the top 2 seeds are on bye), and have your remaining playoff rounds in weeks 13/14 and weeks 15/16.  Personally, I'd prefer that to playing doubleheaders in playoff weeks.

An option if you feel an 11-week season is too short, is to play doubleheaders in-season, perhaps limited to the weeks with no NFL byes.  If you open the season with 2-3 doubleheaders, you can easily play a full schedule in the shorter timeframe.

Pretty sure there isn't going to be a "right answer" here as a lot of these options are personal preferences that will differ from owner to owner.  Try to find what makes your particular owners happiest.

If you're going to do an 11-week season in a 12-team league, you might as well use double-headers every week. That's the fairest way to go about it since every team would play every other team exactly twice without the need for divisions, etc.

From there, it would be a lot of fun to do a Survivor-style playoff format - 6 playoff teams, 5 weeks, 5 eliminations, one champion left standing. There are two ways to go about this - one is your typical survivor where scores reset every week and the low weekly score gets booted; the other is a 5-week overall point contest in which the team with the lowest cumulative playoff score at the end of each week gets booted. I'd lean toward the latter, but then I'm always looking for ways to minimize the role of luck in the playoffs.

 

[Gally]

If you're going to do an 11-week season in a 12-team league, you might as well use double-headers every week. That's the fairest way to go about it since every team would play every other team exactly twice without the need for divisions, etc.

From there, it would be a lot of fun to do a Survivor-style playoff format - 6 playoff teams, 5 weeks, 5 eliminations, one champion left standing. There are two ways to go about this - one is your typical survivor where scores reset every week and the low weekly score gets booted; the other is a 5-week overall point contest in which the team with the lowest cumulative playoff score at the end of each week gets booted. I'd lean toward the latter, but then I'm always looking for ways to minimize the role of luck in the playoffs.

I never thought about doing a playoffs survivor style.  The only thing I don't like about that is that the #1 seed has no advantage (bye).  It minimizes the regular season importance.  But what about adding an immunity from elimination?  If you are the #1 seed you have one immunity idol that you can use up to the 3rd week.  So if the #1 seed is the lowest score in week #2 of the playoffs they are immune and the 2nd to lowest score that week gets eliminated.  The #1 seed still must perform the last three weeks but they get an advantage for the first 2 weeks of the playoffs.   Seems like an interesting playoff structure.  I might have to see about trying this out.

 

[Mr. Irrelevant]

I never thought about doing a playoffs survivor style.  The only thing I don't like about that is that the #1 seed has no advantage (bye).  It minimizes the regular season importance.  But what about adding an immunity from elimination?  If you are the #1 seed you have one immunity idol that you can use up to the 3rd week.  So if the #1 seed is the lowest score in week #2 of the playoffs they are immune and the 2nd to lowest score that week gets eliminated.  The #1 seed still must perform the last three weeks but they get an advantage for the first 2 weeks of the playoffs.   Seems like an interesting playoff structure.  I might have to see about trying this out.

Good point about the top seeds, though if you did cumulative scoring, it'd be easy enough to award "home field advantage" of say 20 points to the #1 seed and 10 to the #2, something like that. Enough to give them a meaningful leg up in the first week, but easy enough to overcome over the course of 4-5 weeks. I feel like a blanket immunity might be tilting the scales a little too much.

Ya know, this whole concept just might work. Let me know if you try it. 

 

[Gally]

Good point about the top seeds, though if you did cumulative scoring, it'd be easy enough to award "home field advantage" of say 20 points to the #1 seed and 10 to the #2, something like that. Enough to give them a meaningful leg up in the first week, but easy enough to overcome over the course of 4-5 weeks feel like a blanket immunity might be tilting the scales a little too much.. I

Ya know, this whole concept just might work. Let me know if you try it. 

I was thinking of it being a one time use immunity.  For that i don't think it would be too much by limiting it to a certain time frame.  But really finishing 1st in the regular season should give you a big advantage.  i think I like the idea.  The hardest part might be finding a site that would do that format.  I would probably have to do it by hand.  

I have a kids -parents league for small dollars that might be worth trying this format.  I will let everyone know how it works if I can talk them into doing it.