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BBV Pick'em playoffs


Hello fellow BBV prognosticators,

It's time to discuss what we can do to have a pick'em playoffs come NFL playoff time. Rather than type a bunch of options, what I'll do is lay out my best idea and let everyone weigh in on it. Every time I try to attach a poll my pc crashes, so please, when making your non-binding, just to get a feeling vote, use the subject line YEA or NAY. Only BBV poolers, please.

We will continue to discuss this and this is in no way written in stone based on this thread alone.

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My goal for this playoffs is twofold. First, I want to inject some heat into the waning regular season by setting a cutoff for playoff eligibility. Therefore, of our remaining 21 players, I suggest we have a 16-picker playoff tournament. At this point, with 5 weeks and something like 150+ games to go, our last place player is only 3 correct picks short of making the playoffs is it began today, so nobody is anything CLOSE to eliminated or even "tough row to hoe."

Secondly, I want to make it possible for anyone to win the BBV Pick'emBowl. Therefore, I suggest 16 players because we could halve the field with each round of the playoffs. The top 8 pickers would advance from the wild card round to the divisional round, and 4 would go on to the Conference finals. Two would face off in the Superbowl.

Points will be a tiebreaker. For the sake of having an idea out there, I will say we pick the points for every game.

Therefore, we would have a regular season champ -- which really is the bragging point, I believe. Then we would reset to 0 points and have a wild stampede for the PickemBowl.

Because of the low number of games involved in the playoffs, to retain regular season points would effectively mean only a small handful of players would have a shot. I'm one of them, so I'm not leaning toward my benefits with this.

Of course, we could always bracket up with a seeded tournament, but I think that'd be maybe too personal than competing agasint everyone as we always have.

Please share your thoughts and ideas. We will use this thread to come to a general consensus, then have one final vote poll thread in a few weeks. Please recommend this post.

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YEA

Mr. Chariman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Anyone who opposes this proposal should be questioned as to their basic level of intelligence or commitment to the values that this great nation was founded upon. I yield back the balance of my time.

"We were very much aware of that. There was a lot of phone call-type things going on in the room." -- Tom Coughlin

by Mr. Met on Nov 30, 2009 2:48 PM EST reply actions  

YEA

sounds good, even after my brutally awful week this week

"[The Giants] beat us down. We were beat by a grown-man team, a team we want to be like one day. They came in here and took it to us. Out-manned us, out-gunned us. ... It wasn't even close." - Raheem Morris, 9/27/09

by cjmulrain on Nov 30, 2009 6:42 PM EST reply actions  

Whatever you say is fine

You’ve been willing to record all of this data, so I’m fine with whatever, even if it means I’m outside looking in.

Never assume skill at bouncing a ball makes you smarter than the guy who built the court.

by Willgfass on Nov 30, 2009 7:09 PM EST reply actions  

Whatevers cleva

Damn Giants better beat Dallas this week.

by wangstu13 on Nov 30, 2009 7:31 PM EST reply actions  

that sounds good but

if we were to make our own playoffs thy shld be like weeks 13-17 or something

by shenkthetank592 on Nov 30, 2009 8:17 PM EST reply actions  

Whatever I'm easy.

If there's ever a riot at Citi Field and Oliver Perez was the starter, I started the riot.

by meigs1414 on Nov 30, 2009 9:09 PM EST reply actions  

We can go two ways

As Simms suggested above or

We end the regular season with the week 13 games to choose the top 16 and have the playoffs (ie last 16,8,4,2) picking the final games of the regular season. This does mean you have 16 games to choose from rather than 4 a weekend.

We could then have a playoff pickem available to all players and this could be a league structure again.

Personally I would agree with Shenk about using the last 4 weeks of the regular season as the playoffs and having a separate league for the postseason play.

Just my thoughts and I will go with whatever is decided.

by G Fan in England on Dec 1, 2009 4:27 AM EST reply actions  

honestly

I prefer the playoffs during the playoffs system (and not just b/c I’m on the outside looking in right now) – my least favorite thing about fantasy football is that your fantasy championship is being decided during the last weeks of the season, when at least 3/4 of the teams in the NFL have nothing to play for. It’s so hard to know which teams are really gonna show up to play and which teams are gonna rest their starters or tank for a better draft pick, etc. I’d rather have the champion decided by picking games that really matter.

"[The Giants] beat us down. We were beat by a grown-man team, a team we want to be like one day. They came in here and took it to us. Out-manned us, out-gunned us. ... It wasn't even close." - Raheem Morris, 9/27/09

by cjmulrain on Dec 1, 2009 4:57 AM EST up reply actions  

Simms

Don’t forget we have another Thursday game….

by G Fan in England on Dec 1, 2009 9:56 AM EST reply actions  

Yea

I like the idea of having our playoffs coincide with the actual playoffs. It creates more of a sense of urgency (ie: if you don’t get these picks right you’re done).

"To the second baseman Cano, THE YANKEES ARE BACK ON TOP!!! WORLD CHAMPIONS FOR THE 27TH TIME!"

-Joe Buck. 11/4/2009

by nck228 on Dec 1, 2009 2:33 PM EST reply actions  

right now

it sounds like we’re leaning towards the original idea put forth in this post.

I don’t think there’s a strong enough movement for bringing the playoffs to week 14, that was the strongest amendment put forth so far.

I’ll leave it out there for another few days.

You play to win the game!

by Simms-McConkey on Dec 2, 2009 7:39 AM EST reply actions  

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