Erok wrote:Sorry, I stand corrected here.
What I was trying to say was that it would be nice to adopt a format similar to FFPC somehow. You would still only have the Best Record/ high points regular season winners make the big playoff, but it would be nice to try to have 4 league teams (2 points +2 record) compete over two weeks for the league prize, prior to the start of the big playoffs.
Erok, since you started this same thread on the FFPC boards last night asking them to change their playoff format, it's obvious that you're not happy with either format. They have an 11 week regular season (8 teams are eliminated before Thanksgiving), 4 playoff teams going H2H in Weeks 12 and 13 and 2 teams in the Championship Round. I saw that you had a Top 2 team in your league and lost a high-scoring H2H matchup in Week 12. Your request for total points over 2 weeks has been well received by other owners, but the old WCOFF format of H2H over 2 weeks has been standard for that contest for years. That's a tough change.
Now here you like the 13 week regular season, or don't you? You want an 11-week regular season and 4 playoff teams going for total points in Weeks 12 and 13, the same request you're asking the FFPC to make?? To me, that would be eliminating 8 teams before Thanksgiving, which seems less of a season for most paying customers. And I'm not sure we're even rewarding the top 2 teams after Week 13 then, are we? What were the first 11 weeks for in that format, just playoff qualifying? Seems like less of an enjoyable contest.
Hey, I understand the year-end frustration and this happens every year where folks ask for more playoff teams and format changes. We've added a third Championship Round qualifying team in the Primetime and I think that has helped that contest. But the Online Championship is so big already that we'll have 300+ teams in the Championship Round the way it is. Adding 156 more teams to the Championship Round would take us closer to 500 total teams. Paying out only the Top 2 teams in each league is tough, but the goal is to reward the two best teams with as much money as possible, not the hottest teams in Weeks 12 and 13.
We'll watch the comments on both threads that you started because good ideas usually come from the customers. But we went from 780 teams to 1,872 in one season and the FFPC grew to over 4,000 teams, so we both must be doing something right in this format. The allure here is the $1,600 league prize and the chance to win $100,000 on a $350 entry. Can we make it an even better contest? I think we can and we'll continue to take your input, but I have to say that going down to 11 weeks for our regular season isn't an option we'll ever consider. Thanks and continued good luck the rest of the way.
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And all of the arguments against "four teams being too many to vie for the league money" could all be stated against Diamond, Ultimate, Super and Satellite leagues; but they're not. People obviously WANT 4 teams to compete within the league; it's just that people also want only 2 (or 3) teams in the national (lottery) playoffs.