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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Anthony D'Amico commented
I'd like to add on to this. We have a unique playoff structure where the wildcard is the highest scoring team that wasn't in the top 2 in their division, regardless of record. Other sites have let us just plug teams in to their respective playoff spots. I'm not sure why this isn't allowed.
If this isn't addressed I don't think we'll be using yahoo next year.
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Pete commented
This would be great, as my league does "wildcards", awarding the last 2 playoff spots to most points of the teams that didn't clinch. We also reseed based on points and I hate to have to manipulate the records to do this.
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Casey Ackermann commented
Ties happen in the NFL, why not fantasy, just think how ****** you would be if you had eight guys finish with 10 points across the board in week one and the opposing team had Manning finish with 45 points in his big game against Baltimore and the rest of the 7 players had 5 each. You lose because your tie breaker was total points by starting QB when clearly you drafted much better and have a more consistent team but now you're 0-1. Ties are part of the game.
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Daniel commented
I agree 100%. The two week playoff format is what my league assumed was an option because we have seen it on every other site. Please try and make it a possible option before the season ends. This would honestly be a reason to not return to yahoo next year.
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Joel White commented
This would be great. I was really hoping to allow my league to play the championship in week 16 and 17. Only playing week 17 sucks (to many players benched), but not playing fantasy football the last week of the season sucks too.
Please update it so we can allow customizations on the playoff weeks!
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Nick commented
I was just about to change my playoffs to 7 and then noticed it doesn't exist. This should be a playoff option. It gives the regular season winner a clear advantage. Could you please add this option.
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Matt commented
Commish can manually set draft order, so why not just do that?
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Ethan commented
We used to have a consolation round --- where did it go? Bring it back! My first year, I was in a Yahoo league with 12 teams, but only four playoff spots. I won the consolation round, and remember that that was a whole lot more fun than having nothing to do for the last weeks of the season. This is fun --- keep things in that make it fun!
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Dawg commented
Agreed...
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Micah commented
I agree it would be good to have some other option for a tiebreaker if the league prefers not to ever allow ties to happen.
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Anonymous commented
With fractional scoring ties are almost impossible, but if they happen its not a big deal, the tie could end up being a tie breaker for your play-offs. The NFL has them so why shouldn't fantasy sports
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Joe Deck commented
I agree totally, it's not just a fantasy football problem, it's a fantasy everything problem, ties are stupid have a tie breaker option so we don't have to deal with this. Honestly, I can't believe you guys need users to tell you this, why do you think most leagues have come up with ways where ties aren't possible?
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Jonathan Bowers commented
Which league's scoring would you use? What if the same player is on both teams?
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Simon commented
A fully customizable playoff schedule would be great. You give us the option to fully customize the regular schedule, why not the playoffs?
Most other fantasy sites allow this already. We've been with Yahoo for 12 years, this has always been an issue. We've had to manage the schedule from the message board and notify everyone who they are playing each week. It's time for a change! -
Brandon commented
You do realize that the commissioner can adjust the scoring manually. So if you want to add bench scoring as a tiebreaker, the commish can give +.01 points for that.
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Failure.is.not.an.option commented
Nice idea, but what if the teams in the consolation bracket are all non-active managers? If that's the case, then the league commish should be able to allow or disallow the winner of the consolation bracket to be awarded top pick in the following year's draft, or better yet, to select draft position based on the previous season's reverse order of standings. But yes, I agree, it is a fantastic idea nonetheless.
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Kevin Dalrymple commented
Simple solution for something that should already be in place. Yahoo needs to relinquish more control to commissioners. YAHOO, PLEASE FIX THIS NOW!
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Anonymous commented
Exactly right. This is BS. I had an idea for a 14 team league with no divisions and a 13 game schedule where everybody plays everybody once. Tie breaker is head to head matchup there would be no season splits. If two teams finished 11-2 at the top the team who won the head to head matchup would get a bye as the #1 seed and the other 11-2 team would be the #2 seed and play the #7 seed.
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Tim commented
I agree. We have a 12-team league and want the 4 teams that don't make the playoffs square off in a Loser playoff to keep everyone interested and playing until the final week. This also gives the team in last place a chance to not come in last.
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Howard commented
Agreed! They need a Wildcard option. You can just choose to have it be the team with the next best record, the team with the most points, or maybe even the team with the best division record. My ideal would be 12man, 2 divisions, div winners get top spots, followed by next two by record, and then the final two teams being those with the highest remaining point totals.