J-Pav wrote:Tiebreakers
1. Championships won
2. Finals made
3. Playoffs made
4. Regular season total wins
5. No. of events played
6. Pick 3 winner
My thoughts looking ahead to next year...
The tiebreakers are flawed as they are written and here's why. The number of events played should not be included. If I get 350 points with four teams and opt out of entering a fifth team, how is that WORSE than you needing five teams (and a "participation bonus") to get 350 points? It's not, plain and simple.
I think the original intent was to reward the extra participation, not to unintentionally penalize the team that didn't need the extra participation. The unfortunate consequence, however, is that the four event team is unfairly punished here, though likely no one would have anticipated this in advance until the tiebreakers were fully tested.
In this case, if everybody played five teams, all five teams should count in the total wins (tiebreaker four, as noted previously, is redundant without adding the fifth team to the number of wins). That's how it was done last year, I believe, and that's how I think it should be done this year.
Run differential is a much better tiebreaker, and I intend to add it to the list for next year. You should never lose a tie-breaker to a Pick 3 except in only the extreme circumstance that you tie through the run diff tiebreak.
My 0.02.
I thought similarly re: tie breaker #5. If the two teams tied with their top 4 team records, and tied down to regular season total wins, the team that played only 4 seasons will always lose tiebreaker #4 since their "5th" will be 0 and the team that played 5 seasons will have the benefit of the dropped 5 season's wins. But let's say, no if one team only played 4, we will call that a tie and go to tie breaker #5 out of "fairness.' Now the team that played 5 seasons wins by playing 5 instead of 4. But, the original tie only occurred because they played 5 seasons and got the 5 bonus points that enabled the tie in the first place, no?
I guess it is a matter of opinion and philosophy, but I think the goal is to have the best 32 managers in the semi-finals, not the most active. The 5 point participation trophy is enough of an incentive.
Mon Dec 22, 2014 3:37 am
