Playoffs - Customizable consolation bracket.
This feature will allow commissioners to do the following;
- Turn the consolation bracket on or off
- Change the number of teams the league has in the consolation bracket
- Customize the seeding and teams in the consolation bracket.
Currently, the consolation bracket is only available for 4 and 6 team playoff format, it is not able to be turned on and off, and does not allow for the commissioner to change the number of teams in the consolation bracket or customize the teams/seeding.
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David Budimir
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Our long running Yahoo keeper league has always needed the consolation bracket to help determine next year's draft order and other important parts of the league. This past season, we switched to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Plus league, which for the subscription allowed us to change our playoff format to 7 teams out of 14, and to have weekly H2H be against 1 team, and also against the median, which has worked well. The problem is when we got to the playoffs, we realized there were no consolation bracket matchups, the league just assumed anyone who didn't make the main playoffs was done for the year. We really need a feature to allow the bottom non-playoff teams to still compete in the consolation bracket like the free public leagues are still able to. Please make this change for 2026. Thank you.
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John
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For 12 team leagues that use the 8 team playoffs option, please add a second consolation bracket for the 9th through 12th teams.
There needs to be a "toilet bowl" so teams can play each other to avoid being last place. It also keeps the last teams playing for at least two more weeks instead of just doing nothing for the actual playoffs.
There could either be a bye week in week 15 so they can coincide with the rest of the consolation bracket, or they just play their games in week 15 and 16 and be done by week 17.
It would make it more fun for those last 4 teams that didn't make the playoffs.
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robert watson
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if there ae 6 teams in the consolation bracket the bottom two teams get a bye week 15. The losers form the other two games progress and play the two bye teams week 16. then the two losers form the week 16 matchups play for the ultimate loser week 17.
basically the reverse of the championship bracket.
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Scott Brown
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Allow commissioners to turn off consolation brackets in leagues with a 4-team or 6-team playoff.
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Tony Maffei
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Consolation bracket is not available when you use the 7 team playoff format. My league is 16 teams and everyone wants it back.
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M R
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Not locking eliminated teams and using a consolation bracket keeps the league competitive the whole season and gives guys something to play for (draft position for next year) throughout the playoffs. This prevents teams from tanking completely and selling off all their best players to the highest bidder at the trade deadline.
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Trevor
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I would love to be able to place the 6 teams that don't make it to the playoffs, place them in a consolation bracket and have them play for the rights to the #1 pick for the next season. We used to do this before we moved to Yahoo, the guys really miss it, it stops tanking and giving up by the bottom teams.
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David Van Dalfsen
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This is a great idea. We need this.
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jordan lavalle
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Yes! I think it is very important. Our league and thousands others want the option to hold consolation brackets for teams that missed the playoffs, so they can compete for draft positions the following year or just simply compete through to the end of the season.
You can do it! I trust the talented folks at yahoo to add this important feature to satisfy their long term customer base.
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Rod Timmons
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All teams should be able to participate in some sort of consolation bracket despite final position in the standings
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Kyle Billiald
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Add functionality for a Toilet Bowl in lieu of a consolation bracket for teams that do not make the playoffs. In a Toilet Bowl format, the 6 worst teams will face off in what appears to be a traditional tournament bracket, but the 1st round bye goes to the 11th and 12th seeds, and teams advance in the bracket when they lose, thus crowning the ultimate loser. Nobody cares about winning a traditional consolation bracket, but everyone cares to not be the proven worst team in the league.
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Jared Kiss
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Being able to have a customizable consolation bracket would be fantastic. We have a 14-team league with a 6-team championship bracket and would like the option of making an 8-team consolation bracket.
The goal of our league to keep every team competitive through the final week and have a small prize for the winner of the consolation bracket, a punishment for the loser of the bracket as well as weekly high score/low score payouts.
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Al Caesar
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Please allow us to turn off the consolation bracket. Nobody is ever interested in keeping going after a long season in which they missed the playoffs
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Dan Creasy
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We have a 12 team league with 8 teams in the
Championship Bracket . Want a 4 team Consolation Bracket to run in Weeks 15 and 16. It enables all teams to compete after Week 14. Why can't the Commissioner be able to schedule these non playoff teams after Week 14? is there some kind of software package problem? if so, then be transparent about it. -
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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Craig Riehl
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We have a last place punishment in our league and would like 7th and 8th place able to get last place in the playoffs to give them something to fight for as well.
Have an option for the 1st round bye in the consolation bracket to be for 11th and 12th places instead of 7th and 8th.
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David Norman
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There needs to be an option to turn off the consolation bracket. There is no way to protect free agency from eliminated teams in the playoffs because consolation games are not considered as eliminated in Private Prize Leagues.
Please address this.
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Vincent Giancaspro
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In our league and im sure in many other leagues the consolation bracket is of great importance. please allow the consolation brackets in 7 team formats. otherwise, by adding the benefit of a 7th team you also lose out on the consolation brackets. this makes purchasing the yahoo commissioner plus not worth it.
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Ooh M
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This feature will allow commissioners to do the following;
- Turn the consolation bracket on or off
- Change the number of teams the league has in the consolation bracket
- Customize the seeding and teams in the consolation bracket.Currently, the consolation bracket is only available for 4 and 6 team playoff format, it is not able to be turned on and off, and does not allow for the commissioner to change the number of teams in the consolation bracket or customize the teams/seeding.
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Ooh M
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This feedback has been posted since 2021 and yahoo still has not acted upon this feedback. Unreal. Poor management by yahoo. People has been commenting every year and yahoo still does nothing. Being able to turn off consolation brackets doesn't hurt people. They can choose how to set their league up with or without this option. But to leave no option for customers that wants to turn off consolation brackets is bad customer service.