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.
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Anonymous
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Why has this been under review for 12 months without a response? This has to be a relatively simple fix for something that people obviously want. There are several threads requesting the same flexibility. Last year, I had to set playoff matchups by the message board. It ruined part of the playoffs.
Is Yahoo going to make this a feature for this year or not? If not, we will be moving our league this year.
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Anonymous
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This would be great - especially since the last two weeks are so risky anyway.
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Matt
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I don't understand the point of offering a commissioner to set the league into divisions when the limited playoff options totally ignore divisions. To have such great flexibility in other areas of the site but not the playoff seeding is rather dumbfounding. That is a deal-breaker for a lot of leagues.
Suggesting we go back and game the stats to make the playoff tumblers click into place sounds like amateur hour. It's like buying a table with one leg shorter than the others and the manufacturer's instructions suggest putting a 2x4 under it.
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Anonymous
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We want to do this same thing. I've been running a 10 team league on this site for 10+ years. Top 6 teams make the playoffs. We want to make it so the teams with the 5 best records get a playoff spot, then the 6th spot is awarded to the team that has the most total points out of the remaining teams.
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Anonymous
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I want to do this same thing. We have a 10 team league. Top 6 make the playoffs. I want to make it to where the 6th spot goes to the team with the highest total points out of those bottom 5 teams.
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Kevin Dawes
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Yahoo, are you going to fix this problem before this season? Give commissioners more control. The play off system is one of the most important parts of fantasy football!!
We have a 14 team league. I want the teams with the best records to take the top four playoff spots and the remaining two spots to go to the two teams with the highest remaining points that are left. So simple, and so much more fair.
PLEASE MAKE THIS POSSIBLE WITHOUT HAVING TO MANUALLY CHANGE TEAM'S POINTS FROM EARLIER GAMES!
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Kevin Dawes
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Jim, if you are doing that, you might as well just skip the head to head setting and go for the total points setting. A big part of the fun is the weekly head to head match ups and if you are playing everyone every week, it would take away all of the fun of the match ups.
Another option I do like to to have each week count for 2 wins or loses. You can earn one win for beating your opponent, and another win for beating the league average in scoring. That way on a week where you get lucky and win with a pitiful score, you would go 1-1 since you would get a loss for not beating the league average. You could of course also go 1-1 by losing your head to head match up while scoring high enough to beat the league average for the week.
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Kevin Dawes
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I would like more options, but this would be a HUGE step in the right direction. Every single year some team puts up a great scores all year and misses the playoffs due to unlucky match ups. This would allow us to keep the fun of the weekly head to head match ups but still be more fair to the good teams. YAHOO, PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!
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Anonymous
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We just switched from a 10 team league to a 12 team league. I wanted to know if you can make a 7 team playoff with the #1 seed getting a bye in week 14
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Randy
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this is exactly what I just proposed. Is it possible to set up 2 10 team leagues. top 4 in each league make the playoffs and play week 15 and 16 to determine a champion, then do the interleague thing for a mock Superbowl on week 17.
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Eric Sutton
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this should definitely be an option! I would like to have 7 playoff teams on a 14 team league with the 7th seed making it based on highest points among teams finishing 7-14.
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Anonymous
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I would like to see the ability to have a H2H regular season, with a 2 week points based championship between 4 teams. This could be another option for a customizable playoff.
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Anonymous
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I agree. I too switched over to Yahoo for my fantasy league; however, I had to do the playoff manually. i wanted to do a 10 team league, 2 divisions, Playoff seeding by record, total points, then head to head. First place team in each division getting a bye. Playoff would stay in own division, like real football, and then have the championship game. I had to do my playoff manually.
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Matt
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Two week playoff matchups. A basic and necessary feature that ESPN has offered for years.
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DON PAVELKA
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Agree. My 16 team league is currently set up to run like the NFL .5 We have half the number of teams as the NFL with half the number of divisions and half the number of playoff teams. If the NFL goes to 14 playoff teams in 2015 we want to go to half that number as well, thus the desire for 7 playoff teams.
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Paper Lion
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I'm in a 12 team head to head format
We have 8 teams qualify for the playoffs with the top 3 playoff finishers receiving payouts
Teams 9 - 12 have a separate playoff to determine next years draft positions 1st - 4th
As the commissioner, I must currently conduct this manually, needless to say it's very inconvenient, not to mention we can not readily track those games while in progress.
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Micah
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I like the idea of more flexibility here, especially a way to make the superbowl last 2 weeks.
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Kevin
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I totally agree with needing the ability to have a customizable playoff schedule in custom leagues. Personally I am looking for a playoff format where 3 teams make the playoffs with the #1 seed getting a bye in Week 15 and the #2 and #3 seeds play each other in Week 15 for the right to play the #1 seed in Week 16. Currently Yahoo! does not offer this playoff format. This format would give some reward to the team who wins the league during the regular season and also resolve the problem that a 14-0 team starts the playoffs on the exact same footing as an 8-6 team.
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Jim
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I think the comments by "Me" on Dec.21 rather fully explains the actions that can be taken to solve this situation.
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Anonymous
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I agree with this suggestion. Our league switched to Yahoo (from ESPN) this year and were happy with most of the settings, except the Playoff format. It caused a bit of headache and took away from the overall enjoyment of the playoffs causing half of the league to request switching back to ESPN.