Playoffs - Feature requests and general feedback
Specific feature requests and general feedback for playoff related features and options.
jpaine
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Byron B.
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Here’s a clean, balanced, and fully structured 14‑team league with a 10‑team playoff bracket. This format is uncommon but works extremely well when you want more teams involved while still rewarding top seeds.
I’ll give you the full structure, reseeding logic, and a visual bracket.
14‑Team League — 10‑Team Playoff Bracket
✔ Top 10 teams make the playoffs
✔ Seeds 1–6 get byes into the Quarterfinals
✔ Seeds 7–10 play in a Play‑In Round
✔ Works in 4 total playoff weeks
This format is fair, competitive, and avoids awkward matchups. -
Ben Dover
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While you're at it, go ahead and get rid of Yahoo Fantasy Commissioner Plus. Platforms like ESPN are doing things like Play Against the League Median Score for free.
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Alan H
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i would like to see an option awarding the last playoff spot in a 6 or 7 team playoff format to the non playoff team with the hghest point total instead of the best record
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Alan H
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i would like to see an option to have a 6 or 7 team playoff but with the last last playoff spot going to the non playoff team with the most points instead of best record
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Dean Hatzenbiler
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I recommend adding a 12-team playoff designed after CFB playoff. Top 1-4 teams receive 1st round bye. Would allow for most teams to make the playoffs and keep owners playing until the end of the season.
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Joseph Strader
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I have a league that just increased to 10 players from 8. We really like folks getting a shot “at the money” in both the season, and in the playoffs. I feel that keeps the lower teams paying attention the whole season instead of going AWOL sonce they still have a fresh shot at money in the tournament. I was surprised to find there’s no 10 team option for this?
What I would imagine is a playoff option that allows for the #1-6 seeds to get a week off in week 14 while the #7-10 seeds do a play in round, after which in week 15 its an 8 team tournament and business as usual.
Thanks for looking this over - Appreciate ya!
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Frank Wissell
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Award winnings (in paid leagues) for the season winners (1st/2nd/3rd place)--they work their lineups for 13 weeks and should be awarded $$ not just someone whose team gets hot in the playoffs and beats the league winners . To win a league for 13 weeks is much more difficult than two weeks of playoffs when many NFL teams are resting their players or they are injured. Split the winnings for the season winners and the remainder for the playoffs.
Also, make the playoffs for two week intervals (weeks 14 and 15 for the first round)-the cumulative scores for the two rounds moves on to the next round (weeks 16 and 17) to determine the playoffs winners. When I called these these two suggestions in on a phone call in January 2025, I was told it was going to be discussed before the next season begins--so, was it discussed? Other companies like CBS and ESPN have been able to have two week cumulative playoffs, why cant YAHOO ????? -
Dean Hatzenbiler
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Please implement 12-team playoff structure identical to current CFB playoff structure. Top 1-4 seeds attain bye. No reseeding. Allows for opportunity for lower seeds to make a late season run.
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jordan lavalle
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Then more options to customize our formats, the better. There are so many leagues out there with quirky characteristics and customization is invaluable.
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Joe Pisauro
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I switched my league this year to the 7 team playoff since we have 14 teams. We have a dedicated group and use the consolation bracket to determine the top picks for the following years draft. However, yahoo doesn't have a consolation bracket for 7 team playoff format. I feel this is an easy fix and should be offered given I had to pay for a the Yahoo+ options to do it and I couldn't even have a consolation bracket for my league.
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Triple a Hamid
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The way my league is formatted (10 people), the top 4 make the playoffs and the next 4 play in the consolation tournament. That leaves two teams left. I would like them to play each other during championship week to decide 9th vs 10th place.
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ERIK GUTIERREZ
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Locking eliminated teams doesn't block all non-playoff teams from making roster moves, since it considers Consolation bracket teams as still in contention. This setting needs to be improved to allow blocking of consolation teams once playoffs start.
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John Yuhasz
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Consolation brackets are only available for 4 team and 6 team playoffs. Please give the option for commissioners to enable the consolation bracket in scenarios where there are different playoff sizes such as 7 teams.
In my specific scenario, I have a 14 team league and the playoff bracket contains 7 teams. This would easily allow for a 6 team or 7 team consolation bracket. -
Matt Crew
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Allow for 8 teams to make playoffs, but have top 2 seeds get a bye in the 1st round.
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Mike Caputo
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Currently Yahoo shows teams that have clinched a playoff spot with an asterisk. Yahoo should also show teams that are eliminated from the playoffs with another type of indication.
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Mark A
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Give us an option for a 10 team playoff from weeks 14-17. Seeds 7-10 have a play-in for the 7th and 8th seed, then playoffs resume as a 8 team playoff after that. 14 team leagues would benefit greatly from this.
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Mark A
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Our 14 team league does a play-in for seeds 7-10 for the 7th and 8th spot for playoffs. It's very difficult as the commish to do this without adjusting scoring and schedule in wk 14. Having a 10 team playoff format would be easy for a programmer to setup for weeks 14-17. No one wants to have playoffs go into week 18, because teams rest players. If the only choice is to pay for this to happen, our league would just switch platforms, but we'd like to stay on Yahoo.
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Alex
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Please add the ability for leagues to have a 5 team playoff bracket with only the top seed receiving a bye week. Many 10 team leagues would appreciate this since 6 teams is too many and 4 teams can be too few.
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Alex
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I also have the same question as Jeremy, a 5 team playoff for 10 team leagues would be great. I would buy commissioner plus to get that option.
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Jeremy Abraham
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Could there be an option for 5 teams to make the playoffs so only the #1 seed gets a first-round bye?