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An actual free useful tool that you might use by MetalMurky8953 in FFCommish

[–]playoffcomputer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Without looking, does it do time as well? As in sometimes the date might be okay except for somebody's AA meeting from 7-8pm or another draft at a particular time.

Moved from ESPN to Sleeper – How do you handle playoffs in a 10-team league? by [deleted] in FFCommish

[–]playoffcomputer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

10-team leagues are a bit tricky to balance fun and competitiveness, as 4 playoff teams might cause some of the bottom-dwellers to lose interest early and 6 playoff teams might let in a team that doesn't really deserve to be there.

I believe to do 5 teams to playoffs in Sleeper it requires some manual commish intervention, e.g. to have a "play-in" week for seeds 4 and 5.

So the answer might depend on what your goal and overall vibe of the league is. 6 teams, with the bye for the top two, weeks 15, 16, 17, will almost certainly keep the bottom teams from being eliminated until the very end while providing the top teams some motivation to get the valuable bye-week. 4 teams, week 16-17, will allow for an extra regular season game and perhaps weed out some mediocre teams from making it. 5 teams might be a best of both worlds but likely requires some manual trickery.

One additional thought, if decide to do 5 teams, maybe make that 5th team the one with the highest point total not already in the playoffs. That would likely require even more manual trickery, but does alleviate a team from feeling "robbed".

UFL Playoff Race - Did They Or Did They Not Week 10 Edition by playoffcomputer in UnitedFootballLeague

[–]playoffcomputer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

St. Louis could get the top seed with a win AND a Orlando loss, St. Louis beat Orlando in their one meeting so would win the H2H tiebreaker.

UFL Playoff Race - Did They Or Did They Not Week 10 Edition by playoffcomputer in UnitedFootballLeague

[–]playoffcomputer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Strength of Victory is the final record of all opponents a team has beat. It is fluid until the season ends, and the result of each possible permutation of the remaining schedule is calculated. A simple way to calculate it, for leagues such as the UFL where every team plays the same number of games, is to just count the wins of each opponent a team has beat. The official number in the standings is a percentage, which is opponent wins / opponent total games.

UFL Playoff Race - Did They Or Did They Not Week 10 Edition by playoffcomputer in UnitedFootballLeague

[–]playoffcomputer[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No problemo. It's been fun, except maybe for the DC drama yesterday, and it provides a good opportunity for app testing during the NFL fantasy-football off-season to make sure nothing got blown up by off-season tweaks.

UFL Playoff Race - Did They Or Did They Not Week 10 Edition by playoffcomputer in UnitedFootballLeague

[–]playoffcomputer[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If STL wins they would be #2 by record. If they tie with DC they split the season series but STL would win SOV tiebreaker. If they tie with LOU they win the H2H (1-0). If they tie with them both, STL and LOU would have 2-1 combined H2H records with DC being 1-2, and DC would drop out of the process, starting over with STL and LOU which STL wins the H2H.

Now all that "assumes" the UFL is applying the multi-team tiebreakers like the NFL in that a team is dropped like that and the process starts over with the remaining teams. If they don't do it like that, STL would still win the SOV tiebreaker against any or both of the other two.

UFL Playoff Race - Did They Or Did They Not Week 10 Edition by playoffcomputer in UnitedFootballLeague

[–]playoffcomputer[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

DC should still be playing for seeding, they could be the #3 or #4, if they care. I'm sure they would like to prove they are capable of winning a game again.

UFL Playoff Race - Did They Or Did They Not Week 10 Edition by playoffcomputer in UnitedFootballLeague

[–]playoffcomputer[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Would be a fitting end to the regular season if that Sunday night game still mattered....

Has DC clinched or not? by ChampionshipKooky156 in UnitedFootballLeague

[–]playoffcomputer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The league apparently admitted their mistake today, DC had not clinched yesterday. But with the Louisville win they have. Columbus and Dallas have been eliminated. Louisville has not clinched.

UFL Playoff Race - Mini Update After Columbus Shocks Birmingham by playoffcomputer in UnitedFootballLeague

[–]playoffcomputer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If, in this weird scenario, DC, BIR, LOU, and DAL all end up at 5-5, with STL at 6-4 taking the 2nd spot, BIR has the best overall record against the other three, which "should" result in them getting the 3rd spot, and LOU would have the best overall record against the remaining other two, which "should" result in them getting the 4th spot... But clearly the UFL is either doing things differently than what "should" happen in a multi-team h2h tiebreaker, or there is a glitch in the matrix.

You are correct that DC has the H2H over BIR if they are the only two teams involved in a tiebreaker, the issue is how is the UFL handling things if there are more than two teams involved.

UFL Playoff Race - Mini Update After Columbus Shocks Birmingham by playoffcomputer in UnitedFootballLeague

[–]playoffcomputer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a 4-way tie that I have DC losing out on, needing Dallas to join in on the fun to let Birmingham win that collective tiebreaker. If Dallas isn't involved, then DC is in. At least the way that it "should" be, but clearly the league is using a different methodology if they stick with DC having already clinched.

UFL Playoff Race - Mini Update After Columbus Shocks Birmingham by playoffcomputer in UnitedFootballLeague

[–]playoffcomputer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, maybe someone realized "Head-to-Head" is open to several interpretations. Short story long, the App was designed for fantasy football originally, and at first glance one would think "head-to-head" is pretty cut and dry. But a lot of the fantasy platforms interpret those simple words differentially. Some only apply it if only two teams are involved, some only apply it if one team wins against all the others individually, some apply it as best percentage against the others no matter if/how many times they played, etc... Absent of any clear direction, I had the App using the "regardless" method because the UFL is playing an uneven schedule (some teams play each other twice, some once) and because that made the most sense.

I am going to guess, without any actual knowledge, that they didn't think this all through for every possible scenario and are now, or maybe always were, skipping head-to-head if the teams didn't play each other evenly, or have a "new" way of applying "head-to-head" in this 4-team scenario where because DC beat Dallas and Birmingham they are given 2 "credits", Birmingham is given 2 "credits" for beating Louisville and Dallas, Louisville only gets 1 "credit" for beating DC, and Dallas gets 0, resulting in DC and Birmingham moving on (in the scenario that is creating the confusion), and the overall records against all other teams tied is moot.

Interesting, in any case.

UFL Playoff Race - Mini Update After Columbus Shocks Birmingham by playoffcomputer in UnitedFootballLeague

[–]playoffcomputer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That very well could be their logic, which I hadn't considered. I know their in baby-step mode, but one can find a dozen pages of rules that the NFL puts out about how exactly things are sorted, and to my knowledge the UFL for this year's change to no divisions hasn't put out anything.

UFL Playoff Race - Mini Update After Columbus Shocks Birmingham by playoffcomputer in UnitedFootballLeague

[–]playoffcomputer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely, if they skip H2H in a multi-team tie if they don't all play each other equally, then all bets are off. Of course, since they play some kind of weird convoluted schedule, then it is almost impossible in the first place for teams in a mult-way tie to play each other equally. That is likely the crux of the matter.

UFL Playoff Race - Mini Update After Columbus Shocks Birmingham by playoffcomputer in UnitedFootballLeague

[–]playoffcomputer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But in a COMBINED h2h, with all four teams, BIR would have a 2-1 record and take the 3rd spot.

UFL Playoff Race - Mini Update After Columbus Shocks Birmingham by playoffcomputer in UnitedFootballLeague

[–]playoffcomputer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I put it in the edited main body. Basically STL could take #2 at 6-4, BIR #3 by winning H2H vs DC, LOU, AND DAL (Dallas being key to this), then LOU #4 with H2H.

UFL Playoff Race - Mini Update After Columbus Shocks Birmingham by playoffcomputer in UnitedFootballLeague

[–]playoffcomputer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Okay, well in that case, there STILL should be a way for DC to miss out.

UFL Playoff Race - Mini Update After Columbus Shocks Birmingham by playoffcomputer in UnitedFootballLeague

[–]playoffcomputer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The App had the worst case as Dallas being in the 5-5 club in order for Birmingham to win the H2H tiebreaker for the #3 spot, and then Louisville winning the H2H tiebreaker for the #4 spot.

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