Okay, the idea of a playoff has sort of grown on me and some of these ideas are pretty good, but I think we should keep it simple for this first year.
@U-505:
We could go with most wins for a tiebreaker. Or my personal favorite: Points per game.
For example, in a 20 person League it would be: total win points (inverted scale e.g. 1st place=20 points, last=1 point) minus total loss points (normal scale, 1st place= -1 point, last= -20 points) divided by number of games played=points per game.
I think we should probably hold off on this in year 1. My suggested tie-breakers would be:
1 - head to head
2 - wins (ex 24-12 vs. 12-6 - the 24 win person would advance)
3 - a wild card rd between player 2 and 3 if they finished with the exact same record. If 3 people are tied with the same record (in this case head to head will not apply except for potential seeding) then we just do a 4 person playoff.
So I think we should only take the top 2 in each league (unless player 3, 4, 5 etc. have the same record).
Example 1
Player 1 - 18-2
Player 2 - 16-4
Player 3 - 15-5
Player 4 - 12-10
Here player 1 and player 2 will play for the title.
Example 2
Player 1 - 18-2
Player 2 - 16-4
Player 3 - 16-4
Player 4 - 12-10
Here player 2 and player 3 will play (assuming no tie-breakers applied) for the right to play player 1.
Example 3
Player 1 - 18-2
Player 2 - 16-4
Player 3 - 16-4
Player 4 - 16-4
Player 5 - 13-7
Here players 1,2,3, and 4 all advance to the playoffs.
Does this make sense?
I also don’t think the 41 winner should play the 42 winner. It may be possible where the champion of one league may not have played any games in the other.
Any combined champion will be based off standard “old” league rules, best win% for all their games combined assuming they have played the minimum requirement in each league. This will be sort of the Iron man award.
@JWW:
@DarthMaximus:
1) Time - I’d like to make sure we finish by 12/31.
I’ve given this some thought (scary, I know) and wondered why we couldn’t simply have a ten month league (this year), w/playoffs begining on 10/1/10. All recorded “W’s” & “L’s” would be tabulated on 10/1 and a playoff would commense. However, the 2011 League would also begin on 10/1/10 and any W’s or L’s register after 10/1 would count towards 2011 League and so on. In this manner there wouldn’t have to be an end to playing. It wouldn’t matter when a game started the only thing that mattered would be when the game ended.
For instance, a marathon 24 turn game which began on Sept 1 2010 might end on Feb 1 2011. This game’s results would be added to the 2011 scoreboard.
I can’t imaging that the rules that we choose to govern the 2010 League would differ so dramactically from the 2011 league rules that it would create a problem. Just a suggestion.
I think this can work, but I think we can stick with a Thanksgiving or Dec. 1 deadline, b/c the playoffs would be for only the top 2 in each league to play and they’d only need about a month.
As for carry over games, it shouldn’t be too much of an issue but we should be certain on the rules. So using both blind bidding or the alt bidding method should be allowed, that will cover us no matter how the bids end up at the end of the year.
Does this all look good?
