Playoffs - Odd number of teams
This playoff format would allow for an odd number of teams in the playoffs. Currently, this is not an option for playoff formats.
7-Team playoffs are now available with Yahoo Fantasy Commissioner Plus: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/started-yahoo-fantasy-commissioner-sln36403.html
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Todd Clapp commented
Spot on. This site will be inferior to other sites until more options are added. Also I think that you should even be able to change the scoring type when championship & consolation brackets start. We have a 14 team league & 6 make it in, I want to keep the scoring type the same for the championship bracket as it was in the season (1st & 2nd get byes with normal head to head matchups). But in the consolation bracket, I want to make it to where the other 8 teams are all in it & the top 4 scoring teams in the 1st round advance to the 2nd round (which only 6 can play in it now with the 7th & 8th place teams undeserving getting byes) & then go back to normal head to head matchups in the rest of the consolation playoffs.
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Garrett commented
Why is there a consolation bracket for all other playoff types but the 8-team?
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Anonymous commented
Agreed, please allow the playoffs to be customized
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Nathan Grewe commented
I agree! We were just talking about this in our league!
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Kyle commented
Agree completely here. This is a major concern with my league using Yahoo in the future. As some of the others suggested here below - the option to adjust playoff matchups, time frame and points would be easy fixes and immensely improve Yahoo's Fantasy Football.
My league allows the final playoff seed to be the highest scoring team without a "playoff caliber" record - an excellent way to allow teams who face terrible luck to make the playoffs with a quality team.
Yahoo - please address this area asap - even if allowing manual adjustment of match-ups this year. You can do it during the regular season, so the programming has to be built already.
Thanks.
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Troy commented
I couldn't agree more. I've spent the better part of 2 hours trying to figure this out on your site. Since your playoff rules don't match our league rules, we will have to track manually to some level. Here's hoping you still score each team during the playoffs or it will be a nightmare. This should be quite simple.
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Anonymous commented
Jumping on the bandwagon here... been using Yahoo for a few years now and the lack of flexibility with playoff bracket adjustments is ridiculous. The policies for ranking teams then seeding them in the playoffs is too restrictive and doesn't match the rules of many leagues. Seems like it would be easy to allow commissioners to adjust the brackets as their rules see fit.
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James commented
Would this idea also allow for duplicate players to play against each other?
I.E.
League 1 Team A drafts Peyton Manning
League 2 Team B drafts Peyton Manning
Both Teams find themselves playing each other in the playoffs... Both with Peyton Manning
I like the idea, it really helps for leagues that are quite large (A lot of people interested in playing). But I agree with Jonathan, both leagues better be scoring the same because that could be a headache in a half... IMO
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jackflak55 commented
This seems like an obvious fix. The fact that they didn't think of this already makes me question their judgment.
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Kevin Dawes commented
I'm in a 14 person head to head league with 6 play-off spots. It would be far more fair if at least the last two play-off spots were given to the remaining teams with the highest points. Every year there is one or two teams that score a ton but get super unlucky with the schedule and miss the play-offs even though they have far more points than several team above them. At least this way, even if you are unlucky enough to constantly be matched up against teams scoring super high, you would still have a chance to control your own destiny into the play-offs if you have been putting up big numbers all year. These last two spots could be considered "wild-card" teams or whatever. In the settings under play-offs, you could just have a spot to enter "number of wild-card teams (based only on points)" - or something.
Yahoo, you have a seriously great product, keep the tweaks coming to keep it fresh and continue to improve things.
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Mike Mayer commented
I agree, making the playoffs season more customizable including the tiebreakers. Seems as though this would be an easy fix.
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Greg commented
I've played FF since 1990 and a commish since 1992. From a commish standpoint, regular season tie games are actually good because they make the standings way more interesting. Of course, in the postseason they are a problem. There are actually two kinds of ties--game ties and standings ties. Tie games are a tie between two teams FOR THAT WEEK (whether they are regular season or postseason is irrelevent). Standings ties are ties between two or more teams FOR THE SEASON. Game ties should be broken by criteria that occurred that week first--not criteria over the whole season. Season ties should broken by criteria only concerning the teams tied games vs each other--not criteria for the whole season vs all opponents. Beyond that, there will be lots of disagreement.
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Anonymous commented
Having a bye during the first week of the playoffs is a reward for the top seeded team.
Being scheduled to play against the 8th seeded team is a reward for the top seeded team. -
jackflak55 commented
This seems like an easy fix. Why shouldn't the Commish be able to set the playoff bracket manually?
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Anonymous commented
Agree with this! make it happen yahoo!!!
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Steve commented
Also an option available on other sites is giving a team "home field advantage". The higher seeded team is awarded a free amount of points (like 3 or so) for finishing with a higher record. We voted as a league this year and wanted to have this as an option, but I see that there was no option for this. This is just one example of a simple option that could be available on Yahoo, but is not.
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jackflak55 commented
I still don't understand why this isn't the case. I noticed Yahoo sorts standings for division lead first by record, then by division record, then by total points. A commissioner should be able to set any number of different ways to sort standings, as yahoo's inflexibility in this regard is stupid.
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Mayur commented
i have a 14 team league. please allow for an option to have 6 teams in championship playoffs and 4 teams in consolation playoffs. the losers of first round of championship playoffs can then play in the consolation playoffs (play the winners of the first round of consolation). this is done in 10 team playoffs, however not for 12 or 14 team leagues. please allow this as an option. thank you
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jeff commented
i agree with anthony d'amico, we do the same thing, just let us plug in the teams for the playoff spots. I hate going through and changing everybody's record. The playoff seeding is by points after you make the playoffs (which is by record and last two spots is for the wildcard spot with most points remaining), please respond yahoo
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Mike commented
As a manager of a team I was recently involved in a tie and I am in a league that utilizes fractional point scoring. When I went to the commissioner I was told that there was no way to change the tie breaker system and a tie was a tie. Based upon what I am reading ties can also go to a tiebreaker format that includes bench scoring with the + .01 format. How does the commissioner set that up?