BeeR Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Hasn't happened yet but possible - say you're in this situation. I know how to do the scoring (use league avg for the week you play the non-existant "extra" team), and playoffs (one wild card vs 2 etc) but how do you work the schedule? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bier Meister Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Hasn't happened yet but possible - say you're in this situation. I know how to do the scoring (use league avg for the week you play the non-existant "extra" team), and playoffs (one wild card vs 2 etc) but how do you work the schedule? how many teams? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTSuper7 Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Would you consider an all play league where you basically compile total records if you were to play all teams in any given week? I would think it would work well in that situation... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeR Posted August 16, 2010 Author Share Posted August 16, 2010 how many teams? I don't see how that matters (the method I'd think would be the same) but 11. Would you consider an all play league where you basically compile total records if you were to play all teams in any given week? I would think it would work well in that situation... No but thx for the idea. We are going to play as "normally" as possible... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronco Billy Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Hasn't happened yet but possible - say you're in this situation. I know how to do the scoring (use league avg for the week you play the non-existant "extra" team), and playoffs (one wild card vs 2 etc) but how do you work the schedule? I believe at mfl.com you can use a schedule that has league average set as a "team" to be played each week. If you're not using mfl.com, create a mythical team, set your schedule as a normal even-team league, and then substitute the league average number for the mythical team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bier Meister Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 I don't see how that matters (the method I'd think would be the same) but 11. could be different ways to deal with 7, 9, 11, 13, 15.......... 11: could do 2 or 3 divs. i'd go against playing league avg.... gives an unfair disadantage to those playing it. maybe double header... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avernus Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 create another team named "league average" and they have to beat whatever the league average is.....everyone plays league average at least once... I have seen this in my 1st year of Fantasy, but not since...that was 13 years ago... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sportfreak Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 (edited) I ran a 15-team league once and we rotated through doubleheaders, so at least 1 team each week would play 2 games. It worked out so that we played 16 games each in 13 weeks (so everyone had 3 doubleheaders spread out during the year, you can do less doubleheaders to make it cleaner). I made sure the schedule was posted prior to the draft so teams could avoid big bye weeks during their double header weeks. Edited August 16, 2010 by sportfreak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajncajn Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 (edited) could be different ways to deal with 7, 9, 11, 13, 15.......... 11: could do 2 or 3 divs. i'd go against playing league avg.... gives an unfair disadantage to those playing it. maybe double header... Double headers or all-play is what I was going to suggest. One division for 11 or 13 team league or 3 for 15. I wouldn't go any higher than 15 though. Edited August 16, 2010 by rajncajn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jrick35 Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Double Headers, all play, bye weeks, divisons with unequal number of teams, there are a lot of options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopher Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 - No divisions (just one set of standings, where the top X teams make playoffs). - I use double-headers to "balance" out the schedules in a couple of my leagues already... works well, even in leagues with even number of teams. - Pain in the butt to set it up initially, maybe, but I would do enough double-headers so that everyone plays each team twice, if possible. In other words, you know you'll have a minimum of one DH per week. Play enough additional DH's so that, in a 13-week season, each team plays 20 games (the other ten teams twice). If my math is correct, you would be looking for 110 games total (11 teams x 20 opponents each = 220)... take 220 and divide it in half (since each game has two opponents playing each other). To get the 110 total games in a 13-week season, play the following: Non-NFL-bye weeks (weeks 1-3 and 11-13) - Play nine games (seven teams will play a DH)... 6 weeks x 9 games = 54 games NFL bye-weeks (weeks 4-10) - Play eight games (five teams will play a DH)... 7 weeks x 8 games = 56 games 54 + 56 = 110 Basically, each team would play seven double-header weeks, and six non-DH weeks. But, nobody could complain about an unfair schedule, as it would be balanced. The other option would be to play with an unbalanced schedule, and just have one DH per week... But, that doesn't really work out, unless you play a 11-week regular season (and each team gets one DH). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeR Posted August 16, 2010 Author Share Posted August 16, 2010 could be different ways to deal with 7, 9, 11, 13, 15.......... 11: could do 2 or 3 divs. i'd go against playing league avg.... gives an unfair disadantage to those playing it. ?? That sounds like the most fair to me scoring-wise. If you have an above avg game you win, if not you lose. And while I don't like the idea of one division, the more divisions you have (this is regardless of whether you have an odd or even # of teams) the more you increase the chance of one "weak" division so that the div winner gets in the playoffs. That's why I always pushed for 2. Course you could just say the top teams get in ie all wild cards so to speak. hmm I believe at mfl.com you can use a schedule that has league average set as a "team" to be played each week. If you're not using mfl.com, create a mythical team, set your schedule as a normal even-team league, and then substitute the league average number for the mythical team. So far this sounds like the best option for us. All play and double-headers might work numbers-wise but have no appeal, too busy plus we want to stick to as "normal" of a H2H thing as possible. The only possible problem I see is playoff seeding, ie what if the pretend team ended up as playoff level team You could "skip" to the next team, but that sounds like it might be an advantage for that division. Anyway thx for all the ideas, appreciate it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bier Meister Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 ?? That sounds like the most fair to me scoring-wise. If you have an above avg game you win, if not you lose. And while I don't like the idea of one division, the more divisions you have (this is regardless of whether you have an odd or even # of teams) the more you increase the chance of one "weak" division so that the div winner gets in the playoffs. That's why I always pushed for 2. Course you could just say the top teams get in ie all wild cards so to speak. hmm ..... if it were set up as a team, and in a particular division, and that division plays them more than once while playing out of div teams once..... playing the team average twice is a bit of a disadvantage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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