Playoff Tiebreakers
Aug 29, 2011 10:26:53 GMT -5
Post by Ben (Rays GM) on Aug 29, 2011 10:26:53 GMT -5
I still don't fully understand how tiebreakers will work for making the playoffs for our format. However, I have sent an email to Yahoo using the contact form. Hopefully I'll get some kind of useful answer soon, and will update you here.
The way I understand it, Yahoo first looks at division winning percentage if the teams are in the same division. I didn't notice this the first time I looked at the rules, because it was written later in the rules, so I apologize for missing it. Anyway, this is all well and good, seems like a reasonable tie breaker, but it doesn't help for the Wild Card race - but what if the Wild Card tie occurs in the same division (as it might in the AL East this year)? I think it might still look at division winning percentage, but since our WC might come down to a three-way tie with an AL Central team as well, it's not that simple.
The next thing Yahoo looks at is fantasy points if in a points league. We're not in a points league so I don't think this applies to us.
The last thing Yahoo looks at is winning percentage for each week, starting with the last week of the season and moving backwards until a week is found where the teams had a different result, and the team with the better result in that week would win the tiebreaker. Basically, it's looking at winning streaks, with the team with the best active streak at the end of the season getting the playoff spot (unless they have the same streak at the end of the season, in which case it looks at the streak before that, then the streak before that, etc).
I think I'm reading it all correctly, but hopefully Yahoo can give me more information when they reply to my message. I'll keep you posted.
Regardless of how it works, there's nothing we can do to change it, so whoever wins Yahoo's tiebreaker, whatever it might be, will be in the playoffs.
The way I understand it, Yahoo first looks at division winning percentage if the teams are in the same division. I didn't notice this the first time I looked at the rules, because it was written later in the rules, so I apologize for missing it. Anyway, this is all well and good, seems like a reasonable tie breaker, but it doesn't help for the Wild Card race - but what if the Wild Card tie occurs in the same division (as it might in the AL East this year)? I think it might still look at division winning percentage, but since our WC might come down to a three-way tie with an AL Central team as well, it's not that simple.
The next thing Yahoo looks at is fantasy points if in a points league. We're not in a points league so I don't think this applies to us.
The last thing Yahoo looks at is winning percentage for each week, starting with the last week of the season and moving backwards until a week is found where the teams had a different result, and the team with the better result in that week would win the tiebreaker. Basically, it's looking at winning streaks, with the team with the best active streak at the end of the season getting the playoff spot (unless they have the same streak at the end of the season, in which case it looks at the streak before that, then the streak before that, etc).
I think I'm reading it all correctly, but hopefully Yahoo can give me more information when they reply to my message. I'll keep you posted.
Regardless of how it works, there's nothing we can do to change it, so whoever wins Yahoo's tiebreaker, whatever it might be, will be in the playoffs.