Fantasy football playoff tie??

[kingcreole]

OK, I need some help. A division final in the league I run ended in a tie. Both guys are really close friends of mine, which makes this even tougher. I need to go back to the league rules, and maybe I had a system to figure out playoff ties, but if I don't, what ideas do you have to break a playoff tie??

 

[zeke12]

Total points.

 

[kingcreole]

Total points.

For the season? I'd like to leave the regular season out of this if possible.

 

[bigpern23]

Highest scorer on the bench.

 

[Gutter]

Highest scorer on the bench.

That's what we use.

 

[Freelance Hack]

If your league has no established tiebreaker then the commissioner must determine the way to determine the winner.

In all honesty, you'd be better off doing a coin-flip because if you decide highest scorer on the bench or total bench points, then you could be showing some bias.

Pass the buck to George Washington and let a quarter decide.

 

[zeke12]

Total points.

For the season? I'd like to leave the regular season out of this if possible.

Either total points for the season or total bench points from this week.

Coin flip is bogus.

 

[leo1]

how can you not have a tiebreaking system? are you running this the old fashioned way? i'd think yahoo, espn, sportsline, etc., all have tiebreaking systems in place.

 

[More hideous than Ben Seaver]

There was a tie in my Yahoo league, but Yahoo apparently had some built in tiebreaker, because it moved one of the guys into the finals. But if I were doing it, I'd give the victory to the guy whose actual point total was closest to his optimal point total, because that guy did a better job of setting his lineup.

 

[Oz]

There was a tie in my Yahoo league, but Yahoo apparently had some built in tiebreaker, because it moved one of the guys into the finals.

That got me to thinking I should check the SportsJournalists.com "No Essay Required" league, where no one pinned playoff hopes on Joey Harrington, and Chuck Taylor advanced to the finals to play Carrie by virtue of a 41-all tie.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

When I was in a money league, our playoff tiebreaker went like this:

We had to rank our bench players 1-5. If there was a tie in a matchup, each team goes to their top-ranked player to see who scored more points.

If we made it through all five players still tied, there was a rule in place, but I forget what it was. May have been total points from your QBs. Coin flip was way, way way way down the list.


In your situation this year (since your playoff teams didn't rank your bench players, take the top scoring player off each bench to determine the winner.

 

[Freelance Hack]

I realize coin flip isn't a popular solution, but it's the one of the just solutions for this situation.

If you feel that is a cop out, then try this proposal:

1. Place each position name on a piece of paper
2. Fold up the pieces twice and place in a hat or cup.
3. Blindly select one piece of paper to deter mine which position off which you'll base the tiebreaker. If that position is tied, repeat step 3 until you have a winner.

 

[kokane_muthashed]

We use total bench points in one league. Yahoo uses most TDs scored by starting lineup.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

I realize coin flip isn't a popular solution, but it's the one of the just solutions for this situation.

If you feel that is a cop out, then try this proposal:

1. Place each position name on a piece of paper
2. Fold up the pieces twice and place in a hat or cup.
3. Blindly select one piece of paper to deter mine which position off which you'll base the tiebreaker. If that position is tied, repeat step 3 until you have a winner.

The problem with that, is that it determines a winner by blind luck, rather than skill.

Tallying the total score of the bench players is just as just because the person did decide who to start and who to bench

 

[Clever username]

Death match

 

[Hooray4snail]

I had that happen once and it was decided that the only fair thing to do was to have a threesome. Usually not a bad idea, but in this case it was slightly less satisfying.

Both teams played the winner's scheduled opponent in the next round. I think the two teams that tied both lost anyway so major fireworks were avoided.

Now we make playoff teams submit three bench players whose points are totaled to break the tie.

 

[BaysideTiger]

Higher seed going into playoffs. Rewards team for having better regular season.

 

[Unibomber]

We had this happen a few years ago and this is how I solved it.
Pick team with higher points to move on, but link them to team they tied with. This week, if team 1 wins, but team 2 would not have won had they moved on -- team one collects all of prize or moves on alone.
If team 1 wins and team 2 would have won, they split winnings evenly or move on and stay linked.
If team 1 gets money even for losing, team 1 gets it all if it outscores team 2. If team 2 outscores team 1 in losing situation, they split the winnings.
If team 2 would have won the whole shabang without team 1 and there is no payout for losing, well that is just tough ****.
If team 1 loses and team 2 would have won, team 2 moves on ahead of team 1's foe.

So basically, the team these two would play has to beat them both to move on, but, hey, that is life.

 

[donnie23]

I actually just went through this in a Yahoo league. Quarterfinals, I'd led a head-to-head league for 10 weeks before flaming out to get the third seed. My first-round matchup ended in a 92-92 tie, and Yahoo uses total TDs scored in the matchup to determine a winner. I lost by a 6-5 score.

Honestly, while fair, the TD thing seems arbitrary. I had been carried all year by the Baltimore defense, and it almost seemed like I was being penalized for how I chose to construct my team. Whatever ... I just wouldn't use the Yahoo method if I were you.