playoffs start week 14 and championship game is week 16. We want each team in a division to play their divisional rivals twice. And we want to try to have it where they would play all rest of teams once. Whats the best way in doing this?
If you have a 12 team league and 1 division and you set it so that everyone plays each other once, and you have the playoffs start in week 14, what happens weeks 12 and 13 (when you will already have played everyone once)?
We have 12 teams w/3 divisions. Playoffs start week 14 (8 teams make the playoffs), the 3 division winners & then the next five best records. There is no way to get all non-division teams to play once. Each team will have 1 non-division team they won't face during the season. We do not have any byes for the first week of playoffs & everything works great.
DaSOBCommishWed 7/15/09 1:37 PM
playoffs start week 14 and championship game is week 16. We want each team in a division to play their divisional rivals twice. And we want to try to have it where they would play all rest of teams once. Whats the best way in doing this?
testingneraMon 8/3/09 2:39 PM
If you have a 12 team league and 1 division and you set it so that everyone plays each other once, and you have the playoffs start in week 14, what happens weeks 12 and 13 (when you will already have played everyone once)?
Whit-sterFri 7/24/09 11:13 AM
It's mathematically impossible.
With 12 teams, the only way to have the match-ups you are talking about is 3 divisions with 4 teams each and play-offs starting in Week 15.
fsumanskiWed 7/22/09 12:49 PM
12 teams - 4 divisions. 3 Teams in each division
You have 2 opponents in your division - play them twice each, thats 4 games.
there are 9 other teams, play them each once. 9 = 4 = 13. Then playoffs start week 14.
The-Dark-KnightFri 7/24/09 12:02 PM
Yup,
I've also set up my leagues like that. It's the only way to set the league up the way you want it.
Pigskin_PimpWed 7/15/09 4:39 PM
We have 12 teams w/3 divisions. Playoffs start week 14 (8 teams make the playoffs), the 3 division winners & then the next five best records. There is no way to get all non-division teams to play once. Each team will have 1 non-division team they won't face during the season. We do not have any byes for the first week of playoffs & everything works great.
[Deleted User]Wed 7/22/09 1:47 PM
I'm a fan of the 3 division set up myself...
tcostantWed 7/15/09 2:43 PM
You can't do that with 12 teams short of having some kind of doubleheader, which this site doesn't currently offer.
With a 10 league you can do this, 2 division, 8 games in division and 5 outside.
But with 12 teams, their is inly one way this works. 3 division and 14 regular season weeks. 3 division, 6 games in division and 8 outside.
I would just scarp the idea and have one large division and try to stop fitting a round peg in a square whole.