The regular season will be shortened from 15 games to 14. The top two teams in the standings will earn a first round bye. The #3 team will play the #6 team in the first round, while the #4 team will play the #5 team. The lowest winning seed plays the #1 seed in the second round, while the highest winning seed plays the #2 seed. This is all pretty standard. Anyone familiar with football in general should have an idea how this works.
While this is all pretty normal, there is one tweak I'd like to make. I've seen this done in other leagues, and I've always thought it was a good idea. I'm going to try implementing it for the first time as a commish - and we'll see how it goes.
The #1 through #5 seeds will be determined as normal - by the standings. Head to head matchups will be the tiebreaker between two teams, while points is the tiebreaker if there are three or more teams involved in a tie. This is how we do things currently. Here is the difference:
The #6 seed will NOT be determined by the final standings. The #6 seed will go to the highest scoring team that is not in the top 5 - regardless of their win/loss record. So a team could conceivably be 5-9 and the highest scoring team in the league. Another team might be 8-6 and one of the lower scoring teams.
Let's say the 8-6 team is in the #6 spot at the end of the season. Normally, they'd make the playoffs and the 5-9 team would be out of luck. But not here. Because the 5-9 team is the higher scoring team, THEY would make the playoffs as the #6 seed and the other team would not. This rule is to put a good, more deserving team into the playoffs as the 6th seed. Just like pitchers in baseball, a win/loss record is not always a good indicator of how good a team/player is. Sometimes you just get screwed by bad luck.
Hopefully everyone is on board with this. I'm going to give an example of how this will work based on the standings from the 2023 season (apologies for the bad screenshot)
Based on these standings, here is how the playoffs would be seeded.
BYE:
#1 ned
#2 Show me the TDs (they had the head to head tiebreaker against the other TD team that year)
#3 TDs or Bust vs #6 Bluth
#4 BDB vs #5 Alice
2024 provides a different but fun example. Nothing would have really changed last year. Ned (the team who finished 6th) would still be the #6 seed because they were the highest remaining scoring team.
The matchups would have been:
BYE
#1 Dynastic Dan
#2 Fergalicious
#3 TDs or Bust vs #6 ned
#4 Alice vs #5 show me the TDs
I think this is all pretty self explanatory. If you have any questions or concerns - or if this is unclear to you, please address these issues in the group chat. Thanks!
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