FAILS 6-1 - 2022 Playoff Seeding Change Proposal

[Preds]

Scrap the shitty rule from 2012 and seed as follows:

The top 3 Seeds go to the 3 Division Winners and are seeded 1, 2 and 3 based on record. Seeds 1 and 2 get the bye. The 3rd seed hosts their choice of the 3 remaining Wild Card teams in the Wild Card round.

Seeds 4 and 5 go to the 2 non-division winners with the best remaining records.

6th seed going to the top remaining team with the most All Play wins.

Tie-Breakers as follows:

#1 H2H (only if all teams have played same number of games) i.e. skip H2H when 2 or more teams are from one division, and 1 or more are from another division since all teams haven't played the same number of common games.
#2 All-Play Record
#3 Overall Points Scored
#4 Defensive Points Scored
#5 Offensive Points Scored
#6 Random.org dice roll

Wild Card Round
Game 1 - 3rd seed hosts their choice of seeds 4, 5 or 6 (decision must be made within 24 hours of the final seeding being posted or the lowest remaining seed will automatically be assigned)

Game 2 - highest remaining Wild Card seed hosts lowest remaining seed

Divisional Round
Game 3 - 1st seed hosts their choice of remaining 3 seeds (yes this means the 1 seed could choose the 2 seed if they prefer. The decision must be declared within 24 hours of the final wild card scores being posted or the lowest remaining seed will automatically be assigned)

Game 4 - highest remaining seed hosts lowest remaining seed

SACD BOWL
Highest remaining seed hosts lowest remining seed

[pacificscrub]

While I like the division winners getting the top 3 seeds, what the hell is the "I get to pick who I play in BOTH of the first two playoff games?" No league in the world does that.

[Liquid Swords]

I like everything but the choose your opponent options, so I voted No as they are written.

I would say remove that phrasing so 1 and 2 have bye. 3 vs 6, and 4 vs 5 in wild card round.

Or maybe we look at seeding the wild card teams (4, 5, 6) differently? For example, keep qualifications as they are - 2 non-division winners with the best remaining records and top remaining team with the most All Play wins - and seed 4, 5 and 6 based on All Play wins or something.

[Royal Hawaiian Opihi]

I also like the core of this proposal... Patrick's suggestion of seeding the wild card teams differently is interesting!

[Shiners]

Originally Posted by Liquid Swords

I like everything but the choose your opponent options, so I voted No as they are written.

I would say remove that phrasing so 1 and 2 have bye. 3 vs 6, and 4 vs 5 in wild card round.

Or maybe we look at seeding the wild card teams (4, 5, 6) differently? For example, keep qualifications as they are - 2 non-division winners with the best remaining records and top remaining team with the most All Play wins - and seed 4, 5 and 6 based on All Play wins or something.

Don't think we need to over think this. We have divisions so the division winners should be rewarded. Else why do we have divisions?

We'll never make things perfectly fair. Yep sometimes as the top seed will get stuck playing a really good 6 seed and a mediocre 3 seed will sneak by. It's fantasy - the randomness in the week to week is part of the joy....

I'm game for 3 division winners and 3 best remaining all play as wildcards.

The choose your own opponent leaves way to many options open for collusion/alliances that could be detrimental to future trades and general league morale.