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Best matchup tie breakers
Posted on 12/13/17 at 9:27 am
Posted on 12/13/17 at 9:27 am
Quick background - in my main league, for years we did matchup tiebreaker went to most bench points, then we decided that was dumb so we just don't break ties. A tie is just a tie and counts essentially as half a win and half a loss.
This led to a year with a surprising number of ties (something like 5 ties) and one team tying twice. This caused us to add decimal scoring, which we hadn't done before.
With decimal scoring, tying is extremely rare, I think it's happened once in the 5ish years that we've done it.
However, we never decided a solution to playoff tiebreaks. So far, it hasn't been an issue and we've essentially just ignored it and hoped it doesn't happen. But that's obviously not a solution.
What does the board think is the best way to break ties in the playoffs?
Some solutions we're considering:
-Higher seed wins
-Team with most regular season points wins
-Subtract kicker points, and the team with the most points wins
-Highest scoring bench wins(I hate this tiebreak even though it's common)
This led to a year with a surprising number of ties (something like 5 ties) and one team tying twice. This caused us to add decimal scoring, which we hadn't done before.
With decimal scoring, tying is extremely rare, I think it's happened once in the 5ish years that we've done it.
However, we never decided a solution to playoff tiebreaks. So far, it hasn't been an issue and we've essentially just ignored it and hoped it doesn't happen. But that's obviously not a solution.
What does the board think is the best way to break ties in the playoffs?
Some solutions we're considering:
-Higher seed wins
-Team with most regular season points wins
-Subtract kicker points, and the team with the most points wins
-Highest scoring bench wins(I hate this tiebreak even though it's common)
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Posted on 12/13/17 at 9:33 am to Tigereye10005
If you have QB yardage at 1 pt/25 yards you could go in and break the tie by eliminating the rounding “error”
Posted on 12/13/17 at 9:45 am to DallasTiger45
That's an interesting idea too. 
Posted on 12/13/17 at 9:51 am to Tigereye10005
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Higher seed wins
That's what we use. In the rare event of a playoff tie (we've never had one through 7 years), the tiebreaker is who had the better regular season.
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Highest scoring bench wins(I hate this tiebreak even though it's common)
Can't agree more - never understood rewarding somebody for having guys go off while on their bench. I think a better solution is least bench points or best optimization of available points.
Posted on 12/13/17 at 9:52 am to Tigereye10005
Highest total points for the season moves on.
Posted on 12/13/17 at 10:15 am to Tigereye10005
Bench points are indeed really stupid. Years ago, to give myself every possible advantage in the finals, I dropped the handcuffs on my bench and picked up mediocre QBs, just to pad my bench point total. Needing to do that was absurd.
As for tiebreaks, I like the QB yardage trick for leagues that have gap scoring (wouldn’t work in any that break it down to the yard). I also like season total points.
As for tiebreaks, I like the QB yardage trick for leagues that have gap scoring (wouldn’t work in any that break it down to the yard). I also like season total points.
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