My rule of thumb in life is 10% never get it and will complain.
My example is even if someone was giving away cash at the post office, 10% would whine about the denominations of the free money or the fact that they had to go to the PO to receive it.
So what is the best way to decide who makes the FF playoffs?
Most agree that in a 12 team league the top 4 teams should advance to the playoffs. If you allow more than that you become the FF equivalent of the NBA. So lets assume (I know) that 4 of 12 is a good number. It makes it easy since you can play a 2 or 4 week playoff.
If it is a total points league the playoff teams are easy since you do not play any H2H games and do not have a W/L record so you don't really have any playoffs-you just compete via total points thru the entire season (week 16 or 17).
Things get harder when you play a H2H schedule. Which 4 do you place in the playoffs?
I wanted to look at the High Stakes Leagues to see how they do it since they want to get people to commit to their leagues so one would think they want the fairest system. Here are the leagues and their seeding procedures:
Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC)
1) Team with best H2H regular season record
2) Next team with highest Total Points during regular season
3) Remaining team with best H2H record
4) Remaining team with highest Total Points during regular season
FFPC Satellite Leagues
1-4) Teams do not play H2H so use total points for all
FootballGuys.com Players Championship (FPC)
1) Team with best H2H regular season record2) Next team with highest Total Points during regular season
3) Remaining team with best H2H record
4) Remaining team with highest Total Points during regular season
Fantasy Football World Championship (FFWC)
1) Team with best H2H record
2) Team with most total points other than Seed #1
3) Team with best H2H record other than Seed #1 and #2
4) Team with most total points other than Seed #1-3
Rotobowl
1) Team with best H2H record
2) Team with most total points other than Seed #1
3) Team with best H2H record other than Seed #1 and #2
4) Team with most total points other than Seed #1-3
National Fantasy Football Championship Classic and Prime (NFFC)
{Note no Playoffs in 14-team classic or 12-team Prime
- below is how teams qualify for Championship round}
1) Best H2H record
2) Most Total Points (next most total points if H2H champ had most points)
3) Next most Total Points
NFFC Satellite Leagues
1) Best H2H record
2-4) Remaining three teams with most total points
The Fantasy Championship (TFC)
1) Team scoring the most points during the regular season
2) Remain team with best H2H record from regular season
3) Remaining team with most points during the regular season
4) Remaining team with best H2H record from regular season
So the newest entry into the HSL world uses the same system but reverses the order allowing the total points teams to have the higher seeds.
World Championship of Fantasy Football (WCOFF) (Now defunct but was the genesis of HSL)
1) Team with best H2H record in regular season
2) Remaining team with highest point total
Conclusion:
Most HSL use a very similar playoff seed format. It rewards the top H2H team with the #1 seed, then the remaining team with the most total points scored as the #2 seed. The #3 seed is the remaining team with the best H2H record and the last team to make the playoffs is the remaining team with the most total points scored.
This format tends to result in the top 3 H2H teams and the top 3 total point teams making the playoffs. A fair and balanced system to reward H2H and total points. But only four make the playoffs?
Of the 6 spots just mentioned (top 3 H2H and top 3 TP) there is usually some overlap resulting in four teams filling those 6 spots normally. For example the top H2H team may be the top total point team or the second best TP team. The third H2H team may be a top 3 total points team etc.
Next time you consider where to play-look at all the rules including how the playoff spots are allocated.
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