Poll: Playoff Tiebreakers?

[flotsamnjetsam]

Hey everyone. I almost forgot about this rule change that I wanted to make. I posted it at the end of last season in the "rule changes" thread:

I posted this on flea, but I want to post it here so I don't forget. I want to have a poll in the offseason to change our tiebreaker system. We're currently using the flea default for tiebreakers which has H2H as the 1st tiebreaker. Like most of my other leagues, I think it should be total points as the 1st tiebreaker. H2H penalizes a team for having 1 (or 2 if you play that team twice) bad week. Just doesn't seem fair, and I'm not saying this just because I missed the playoffs because of this. I actually thought the tiebreaker was total points until last week when I noticed H2H was the default tiebreaker in one of my other flea leagues (I'm having a poll in that league also).

We already passed this rule change in the other league that I mentioned (flex-factor dynasty league). I really thought we were using total points as our 1st tiebreaker all along. Almost (if not all) my leagues use that as the 1st playoff tiebreaker. Right now we're using flea default as our tiebreakers for the playoffs, which is:

H2H
Best division record (same division only)
Total Points (it says avg points per game on flea)
Hardest schedule (record)
Hardest schedule (points)


Please vote "yes" or "no" on changing our playoffs tiebreakers to:

Total Points (it says avg points per game on flea)
H2H
Hardest schedule (record)
Hardest schedule (points)
Best division record (same division only) [We only have 1 division, so the best division record doesn't apply to this league]


I vote "yes".


I'm not putting up a formal poll. Please post your vote whenever you have a chance. We haven't had many polls in this league, but we've been using "majority rules" in the past, so we need 6 'yes' votes for this poll to pass. I'll keep track of the poll here:


YES for making "total points" our 1st playoff tiebreaker
FNJ
stomper
thrifty
logan
Scott
aaawall
Cruzer

NO for making "total points" our 1st playoff tiebreaker

[stomperrob]

Sure, I'll go for Yes.

[thriftyrocker]

y

[logan]

Yes

[scottaa1]

Abstain.





yes

[aaawall91]

yesh

[Santacruzer]

I vote for the change -

I would even like to see H2H fall even further down the list as I do not think 1 game (maybe 2) during the regular season should carry much weight given bye weeks. What you have is posted works for me though.

[flotsamnjetsam]

I vote for the change -

I would even like to see H2H fall even further down the list as I do not think 1 game (maybe 2) during the regular season should carry much weight given bye weeks. What you have is posted works for me though.

That makes it 7-0 for "yes", so this vote has passed. I'll leave this open so the other 3 owners can vote if they want to.

I'm going to send Cruzer a PM to discuss H2H, then we might have a 2nd poll.

[moochman]

I vote no and was set to make a heartfelt, impassioned plea sure to change the minds of anyone who beleives in family, country, fellow man, and football. But seems futile now so I meekly say nay.
I will save my argument for the "should we have punters" poll.

[flotsamnjetsam]

I vote no and was set to make a heartfelt, impassioned plea sure to change the minds of anyone who beleives in family, country, fellow man, and football. But seems futile now so I meekly say nay.
I will save my argument for the "should we have punters" poll.

I actually have 2 leagues that have punters.