i am commissioner of a league. all friends, all for entry money on par with what we would gladly throw on the table for beers out with the guys.
when the game was suspended, ESPN app had team A (Diggs of BUF) a 70% chance of winning over team B (Higgins and Mixon of CIN). Entering the MNF game, it was a 15 point lead for A.
I said we can either:
split 1st place 70/30 to A/B and 2nd 30/70 to A/B; OR
Use week 18 stats for those 3 guys alone and see if the 15 point lead holds up.
Stats for the players in the suspended/cancelled game were erased.
Glad they picked option 1 and we just chopped the pot. Option 3 would have taken 10% of the total payout out, split the rest as in Option 1, and the winner under Option 3 would have gotten the 10%. I didnāt actually offer that bc I prefer to keep it simple.
Yahoo isnāt doing thatā¦must be something individual leagues can do.
In the league I run, Iām the one in the championship with Allen and Higgins, and was probably going to win. With the cancellation, Yahoo declared the other guy the champ, and I accept that decision. Low $$ league with buddies from high school (22nd season!), so not that big a dealā¦
You are allowing the large FF sites to dictate the results. Of course it will default to the laziest option. For low $ leagues, that may be fine. This would not fly in large $ leagues. A manual option would need to be decided upon. I like the choices that tommieās league gave above. I think the site projections are garbage; maybe the other owners can give their take on the odds.
It is in terms of home-field advantage, though (albeit, not all teams will always care about that).
NFL did specify that if the Bengals and Ravens end up playing against each other that the field will be a neutral site.
and the decisions were done with input from CIN and BUF . . . and I believe they used some of the protocols developed during the pandemic to address situations where an unequal number of games were played between two playoff teams.
Oh, I thought that was still being discussed. If this is true than the 2 vs 3 seeds matter even less than normal.
Under normal rules both the #2 & #3 seed would have home field in the Wild Card week. It could only possibly matter (in terms of home field advantage) if seeds 2, 3, and 4 ALL win their wild card games. Then the 2 seed would host the 3 seed in the division round. Otherwise itās only determining your opponent.
Regardless, IIRC last season the Bengals (with the same head coach and quarterback) elected to not worry about the seeds and rested players in Week 18.
Now their players might not need as much rest, having only played 9 minutes in Week 17, but I still donāt envy the guys with Burrow/Chase/Mixon/Higgins/etc on their Fantasy teams hoping for good results out of Week 18.
Yeah, ours was totally a manual work around that i plan to do. Yahoo commissioner tools are pretty easy to use.
It only impacts our 3rd place game(15.5 po in t margin with Diggs remaining for the trailing team), as our championship game was a joke (59.3 vs. 93.3, with the winner still having Allen left).
Our league is also hometown league, with just a $50 buy in.
I would never use projections, as they are complete trash. And even worse during the game.
We had one friend that rage quit the league a decade ago after losing a matchup after having a 95% chance of winning halfway through the early games.
I guess technically, it still is being discussed; but thereās general support for whatās been proposed and it just needs the ownership groupās agreement to be āofficialā.
My guess is Houston.
Indoors, and HOU has been eliminated. Pretty far for fans, but about equally so (have to fly). No real animosity between hometown and participating teams.
Also possible:
CHI would be awesome, in three feet of snow.
Indianapolis ā right between all teams, CIN is pretty close. Indoors and IND already eliminated.
Indy as a doomed stadium thatās roughly equidistant (7 to 8 hours drive) from KC and Buffalo would be a good compromise. And it would be close to a home game for the Bengals if it is Cincinnati
They might work three different stadia for the three different possibilities.
So, IND for KC-BUF.
PIT for CIN-BUF.
CHI (maybe Memphis, for chance of slightly better weather?) for KC-CIN.
