Based on the split between 12 and 16 teams, I'm going to throw this out - let me know what you think:

14 teams

Each team plays remaining 13 teams once (weeks 1 - 13)

Top 6 teams make the playoffs based on record and seeded 1-6
with tie-breaker being
1 - head-to-head
2 - record vs the top 6 teams
3 - Pts scored
4 - coin toss

Top 2 teams get Bye for week one of playoffs and awarded 1 bottle of wine each

Week one of playoffs (NFL wk 14) 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5
Week two playoffs (NFL wk 15) Lowest seed winner vs 1 and Highest seed winner vs 2 (Option - Losers of Wk one playoffs?)
Championship (NFL wk 16) Winners of wk 15
Toilet Bowl (NFL wk 16) Losers of wk 16

League won't have to play wk 17

Apportionment of remaining 12 bottles:
Champion - 6 btls
2nd place - 3 btls
3rd place - 2 btls
4th place - 1 btl
1 & 2 seeds - 1 btl each (or do we want to have a bottle go to the other playoff teams that lost in Wk 1?)

Selection from inventory to be determined (i.e. Champ gets to pick all 6 first? followed by 2nd place, etc.)

Let me know what you guys think.


I also posted this in the Food and Beverage Forum.

What about other cash? If we are doing a $75/$25 split on the entrance fee, then 14 X $25 = $350. Assuming we use MFL that's $350 - $80 (if bought by the end of July) leaving $270 to be split up.

I guess that 14 is a reasonable compromise and it does make scheduling much easier.

I assumed we were only using cash to pay for the site and shipping. If additional $ left over, I'd say 75% to 1st place and 25% to 2nd place.

I think we were talking about putting $50 in to start.

I think the buy-in should be to pay for the MFL fee and estimated cost for shipping the EVOO

Then maybe split up any remaining $ to winner(s)?

I'm cool with this.