Schedule/Scoring Formats - 'Doubleheaders vs league score median'.
Each week, the median fantasy points of all teams in the league is calculated by taking the middle number in a sorted list of scores of each team. Each team would get a win if they beat the league median and a loss if they lose to it.
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Anonymous
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This format makes so much more sense than head to head matchups, and I hope Yahoo implements this.
In my league, I've had the second or third highest score for the week 4 times this season and still lost. It's not fair.
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DPSPDX
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I love head to head format, but having the added component of playing against the median would really be compelling. Playing every other team every week, would lessen the excitement of the H 2 H component.
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Howard
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I call it "All-Play", and yes, it would be a nice option.
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Jim
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Check out some other suggested rules changes, such as the each-team-plays-each-team-each-week idea.
With that rule, no bye weeks exist regardless of whether your league has an even or odd number of players.
And, it clearly ranks teams by how well they did over the season. -
Greg
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This is the BEST format because it determines a true champion instead relying on a random HTH schedule. My league has used it for years.
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Derek McDonnell
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This is avoid someone getting screwed from playing the highest scoring team every week and offset a strength of schedule. By giving them points they deserve while still playing H2H.
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Derek McDonnell
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I have sent several emails about making next years fantasy football league a combination of high points and head to head for next year. By basically splitting up the point you get for a win. With .5 h2h and .5 for top half for scoring. Please!!! It will make it more fair and competitive and millions of people will want to do fantasy this way. For viewing purposes. You would have 2 columns. One for H2H record. One for high score. And the total at the end that will be used for playoff purposes that will combine the .5 or 1 point scoring you will have weekly Either give 2 points a week with a whole 1. Or use a .5 system. For a total of 1 win
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Jim Roman commented
Yahoo does or did offer this but the problem was they didnt make the league turn into a playoff format finish league when the season ended. It simply ended with whatever the standings were. I wish this was offered to. What you do is you have the top scoring teams make the playoffs, THEN the playoffs start and is a head to head matchup. This way you get the best teams in the playoffs who rightfully earned it by scoring the most points, then the playoffs start to determine league winner. You get the best off both worlds. When I first started this fantasy football stuff one year I chose this format but later found out playoffs head to head mathups were not included so we manually scored on paper. Yahoo does have the technology.
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Paul
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I love this as well. Does anyone know of any sites that offer a format like this? We are willing to leave Yahoo to find better scoring formats to suit our league.
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Anonymous
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A big benefit of this type of league would be in regards to "dead-beat" managers. If someone fails to set a competitive line-up for a particular week, all the other teams would benefit rather than just the team that is playing the "dead-beat".
You could also leave in the H-to-H as a 10th point (for 10 team leagues). The five winning teams would get +1 in the league rankings for the week...hey, H-to-H is fun in terms of rivalries and bragging rights.
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Anonymous
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No, I believe that the primary benefit of this change would be the reduction in "luck" based on which week you play which team. Under this method, that part of the "luck" in Fantasy Football would be eliminated.
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Austin
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Jim - Why not make both an option? The added ability to customize your league is all I am asking for. Weather it be playing against all of the other teams in your league or playing against the league average, let us decide how we want to customize our league. Other sites have the option, why not integrate it into the Yahoo format?
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Jim
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Hopefully, Yahoo will decline this idea and use the every-team-plays-every-team-every-week approach instead.
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Jim
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An excellent idea -- and it would end the need to have an even number of teams in head-to-head leagues.
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James
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The primary benefit of this change hasn't been mentioned.
Under this system, we would no longer have any problem with leagues containing an odd number of teams. -
Paul
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Had the 2nd highest score this week and "lost". What a joke of a format. What about this-
10 team league. Top 5 scores each week get a "win", bottom 5 get a "loss". Then it moves to H2H and top 4 records play week 15 and 16 for playoffs and Super Bowl to determine a champ. It's 2013, it shouldn't be this difficult to think of a FF format that actually works.
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James
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i agree with every team playing every team each week, not the idea of creating a league-average opponent each week.
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James Goode
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What? I don't believe you explained it exactly right. If the league has 10 teams and you score the most points, then you would go 9-0 for the week.
(To go 10-0, you would have to have scored more points than you scored. That simply cannot happen.) -
Greg
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I really need this so I can completely put my 22-year-old league on Yahoo. I term it multi-winner free-for-all (FFA sucked-so you might not of even heard of it--nobody uses it anymore). In FFA, the high score for the week got a win and everybody got a loss. Anyways, what MWFFA or Layered FFA is also called All Play--although that's misleading because it sounds like you're entire roster starts every week (that's Best Ball).
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Anonymous
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Don't fall behind to other fantasywebsites and add this format