Seed 1 is best record, Seed 2 is most points, Seed 3 is best record among the remaining teams, and Seed 4 is most points of any team not already in the playoffs.
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Dave Gerczak
I have to bring this up because last year I played in a similar contest as far as how the playoffs worked and it was a big time disaster using this system of how the top 4 teams are being awarded the playoff spots. It took me over 2 hours to just figure out all my playoff possible scenarios and on a few of them I actually needed to LOSE my game to make the playoffs. That is never a good thing when you need to lose your game to make the playoffs. Seriously that is what needed to happen because if I had won my game I would have tied for record and the other guy in a 3 way tie would win a tie breaker then another guy would take 4th off points, but if I lost my game the other guy lost a H2H tie breaker for record to another guy and I had that guy beat on points giving me 4th.I am telling you right now you will have some angry people if you use this playoff system. I for one was very unhappy as I finished 4th in points in the league but I did not make the playoffs and had I made it I would have won the league title because I posted the top 2 scores for weeks 12 and 13 over the other 4 teams. I had 4th in points and did not get in because it went like your doing it.
1st H2H, 2nd Pts, 3rd H2H, 4th pts
This will also cause many many tie breaking convaluted scenarios trust me as I was invlolved in them big time last year. It really isn't the best way to do this.
The best system would be 1st H2H, 2nd H2H, 3rd pts, 4th pts.
This will still pit the same teams against each other 2vs3 seeds but the 4th place team will always be the 4th best team from your league and never the 5th or 6th or 7th. H2H has more luck involved from playing teams who have their best players on bye/injured and stuff that I am telling you mark this post down in your notes and come back to it when we enter week 11 and finish week 11 and see how many people will say what I am saying right now.
Let me post now what my situation was like entering week 11 in that other league using exact same playoff system. Seriously read this and you will see what can go wrong by doing it this way. It took me 2 hours to figure this out last year.
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Week 11 match ups
Child vs Shady, Brews vs Hurr, RN vs Hydras, IRC vs Long
7-3 Child 1425 pts
6-4 Brews 1441 pts
6-4 Shady 1224 pts
6-4 RN 1230 pts
5-5 Hurr 1338 pts
5-5 Hydras 1335 pts
5-5 IRC 1217 pts
5-5 Long 1211 pts
This league is actually pretty simple to figure out thanks to the point scored separation between teams. So I am going to base my assumptions on this...Child/Brews will finish 1/2 in pts (Either Child or Brews will be 1 but the other will be 2nd in pts) Also I will assume Hurr and Hydras will finish 3/4 in pts (either way one is 3rd and one is 4th)
Breaking it all down goes something looking at the games that would effect the final standings
IF
1)Child, Brews, RN win (Child 1, Brews 2, RN 3, 4=Hurr or Hydras most pts gets in)
2)Child, Brews, Hydras, IRC win (Child 1, Brews 2, Hydras 3 (based off a 4 way tie breaker 3-0), Hurr 4)
3)Child, Brews, Hydras, Long win (Child 1, Brews 2, Hydras 3 (based off 4 way tie breaker 2-1 then winning pts battle vs RN, Hurr 4)
4)Child, RN, Hurr win (Child 1, Brews 2, RN 3, 4=Hurr or Hydras most pts gets in)
5)Child, Hurr, Hydras, IRC win (Child 1, Brews 2, Hydras 3 (based off 5 way tie breaker 3-1, Hurr 4)
6)Child, Hurr, Hydras, Long win (Child 1, Brews 2, Hurr 3 (based off 5 way tie breaker 3-1, Hydras 4)
7)Brews, Shady, RN (Child 1, Brews 2, RN 3, 4=Hurr or Hydras most pts)
8)Brews, Shady, Hydras win (Shady 1, 2/3 Child and Brews based on pts, 4 = Hurr or Hydras most pts gets in)
9)Shady, Hurr, RN wins (Child 1, Brews 2, RN 3, 4=Hurr or Hydras most pts gets in)
10)Shady, Hurr, Hydras win AND Brews>Child in pts (Shady 1, Brews 2, Child 3, 4 = Hurr vs Hydras most pts)
11)Shady, Hurr, Hydras, IRC win AND Child>Brews in pts (Shady 1, Child 2, Hurr 3 (based off 5 way tie breaker 3-1, Brews 4)
12)Shady, Hurr, Hydras, Long win AND Child>Brews in pts (Shady 1, Child 2, Hurr 3 (based off 5 way tie breaker 4-0, Brews 4)
Ok there you have every possible scenario that can affect the playoffs
#11 and #12 is the situation I am talking about because if I win my game and the other things happen in #11 and #12 then I am out no matter what where as if I lose then it reverts back to #9 and I can get in if I outscore Hurr
Scenario 7 is very interesting because it puts records as follows
Child 7-4 (2-1)
Brews 7-4 (1-2)
Shady 7-4 (2-1)
RN 7-4 (1-2)
The oddity of Shady going 7-4 and 2-1 H2H vs the other 3 and still not getting in is kind of strange but that is how it works out because 2nd Tie breaker is pts if they tie on the 1st tiebreaker which they would
So Child gets the 1 seed, Brews the 2 with most pts left, 3 then goes to RN because he beat Shady H2H, 4 then left for most pts between Hydras and Hurr