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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Paper Lion commented
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 commented
I like the idea of more flexibility here, especially a way to make the superbowl last 2 weeks.
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Kevin commented
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 commented
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 commented
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.
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iyasia commented
lol omg why is this happening
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Jim commented
A better solution to this problem would be to have every team play every team each week of the season.
So, the week that you have the second-highest score in the league, you'll have one loss but a win against every other team.
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Chris commented
Ties happen.
If they happen during the regular season, accept it and move on (for percentage purposes, a tie counts as 1/2 win + 1/2 loss).
Of course during the playoffs, an actual winner and loser must be determined to see who survives and advances and who is eliminated; however "bench scoring" should never be used as a tiebreaker under any circumstances.
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Anonymous commented
Yeah, it sucks when you have the fifth-highest points scored without being in the top eight teams. It's probably a scheduling problem.
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KH commented
I strongly agree. I would also like to see leagues have the ability to choose the type of tiebreaker. I currently have divisional play as well, but I would like to have the option of using points scored as our tiebreaker instead of the default division record.
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Anonymous commented
I was tied in my division for 1st place but did not make the playoffs because the other team was 3-2 in the division and I was 2-2 so he won the division. This makes no sense because he played one more division game than me he gets to be in the playoffs. It should be based on points. Your logic on the tie breaker makes no sense and costs me dearly. ~
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Anonymous commented
Have you asked your league's Commish to add a "Consolation" bracket to the play-offs for your league. He/She can do that under the current Yahoo rules.
Also, you might want to support the requests for a format under which each team plays each team each week. That method would make it less likely that the team with the fifth highest points for the season would miss your 8-team play-offs. -
Anonymous commented
Is it possible to have more than 8 teams make the playoffs in a 16 person league? I went seven and seven and barely missed the playoffs with fifth highest points in our league. If not possible to have more than eight teams maybe a losers bracket would be a good idea.
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Brian Hannon commented
I agree with this. I was going to send this in myself but I found it in here. In a HEAD TO HEAD league tie breakers should be teams whom are tied their tie breakers should be the HEAD TO HEAD match ups between each other. Other wise the whole point of a head to head league is really pointless and every match up doesn't mean as much as it should. If its total points then the leagues should only be TOTAL point leagues. Just my thought. this year our league would have had 2 different teams in the playoffs (our other site we moved FROM had this option or at least Commissioner control of playoff teams. where I was able to change due to H2H tiebreakers) This would be a possitive change for next year!
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doug commented
Completely disagree. H2H is just a matter of luck. Shouldn't let a heavy bye week loss influence a tie breaker. Using aggregate points is best because it reflects the strength of the team for the entire season... not just some flukey single H2H matchup. A great big thumbs down on your idea.
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doug commented
Agreed. Offer multiple tie-break options for Commissioners in League settings and let each league select what it wants to use as its playoff tiebreakers. Stop forcing inept rules down our throats. Many years ago, the playoff tiebreaker was total touchdowns in the tied game. That was a GREAT tiebreaker. Basically, give commish's several options to choose among.
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Jeff Forester commented
My League joined yahoo a few years ago because it seems to be the most user friendly site. My league is a Head to Head league and we've always had the following tie breaker rules;
1. H2H record
2. Division Record
3. Points for.
4. Points against
5. Conference Record
6. Coin FlipIf you could somehow incorporate some or all of these options under league settings next year that would be helpful. If not, at the very least, allow the league commissioner to alter the playoff brackets so we can keep with our leagues current tie breaker rules.
This year we had a tie for our last playoff spot and the wrong team was slotted into the playoffs because I couldn't change the brackets. it's caused a headache with an easy solution for all i'm concerned.
Thank You
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Chris commented
For the second straight year I have had to reinvent the wheel as well... The fact I have to jump in my DeLorean and go back to the future (great scott!) and add points to certain teams in order to get playoff matchups correct has me so infuriated that I will be taking my league to either ESPN or CBS next year. I didn't even mention the fact they butchered the pickem on more than one occasion as well. I get the fact it is a free service to us, but I'm sure they charge a pretty penny to advertisers...
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Berg commented
I created this on August 5, and here we are in the Playoffs again, and I'm doing the exact same BS I had to do last year. There's plenty of support for this idea, and seems like it would take 30 seconds to fix.
I'd really like to know the flawed logic that was used to block commissioners from altering the playoff schedule. So let me get this straight. I can alter the scoring to manipulate results to create playoff matchups. I can manipulate the schedule at any point during the regular season, which means I could theoretically play the same team every week. But some genius decided it was unfair to manipulate the playoff schedule? Explain why this obvious error hasn't been fixed yet!!
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Alex Hudimatch commented
I have a 14 team league, would like to have my championship be 6 and my consolation be 8 so that everybody plays. right now the bottom 2 teams dont get to fight in the consolation. Same deal with my 10 team league, it's 4 and 4 and the bottom 2 dont play. Either way we need more flexibility in playoff structures. I also wouldn't mind a 12 team playoff format where top 4 teams get byes.