In. But. Any thoughts of doing the play-in round separately? Then the classic 16-team playoffs? Breaks it up into two contests. In either way.
oh, nvm. Read the rest of the thread after the post. Adequate discussion.
I’d prefer to include the play-in games but the only problem with that is we may see a clear winner of the pool a lot sooner than we’d like if players start getting knocked out early on.
Another way would be to separate the draft. Say we have 20 rounds. The first 8 rounds could be for players from play-in teams only and then the final 12 rounds can be from the 8 teams in the round robin.
In. But. Any thoughts of doing the play-in round separately? Then the classic 16-team playoffs? Breaks it up into two contests. In either way.
oh, nvm. Read the rest of the thread after the post. Adequate discussion.
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I kind of like the idea of two separate drafts one for the 16 play in teams and the other for the 8 round robin teams. Dave's idea works though it seems a little deep. Four each from the play in teams is 56 so say 6 rounds for them assuming there's 10 of us, and then four rounds for 40 players from the round robin teams, and then maybe a last two rounds with whoever else you want from the leftovers.
Player pool of 120.
60+ from the 16 play in teams, 40+ from the 8 round robin teams.
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I just chose simple numbers as an example. My point was to still only have one draft but separate it into 2 for play-in and round robin teams.
This made me think of another question - If we do include the play-in round... do we also include points in the round robin? I think that would even things out.
I am game for either... or having three separate competitions
1) The Play in Round Competition
2) The Regular Playoff 16 Team Competition
3) A combined one that includes the play-in and round robin and playoffs
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I like the idea... but I also like the idea of stacking up on one or two teams, like usual playoff drafts.
There is likely three trains of thought:
Teams in the play-in round will have an advantage heading into the final 16 OR they will be at a disadvantage or maybe neither.
I think separating into two drafts and forcing people to take X number from the 16 play-in teams and X number from the 8 teams with a bye takes away the strategy of it.
If I think that the Montreal Canadiens are healthy and are the best team... I may want to draft 14 players from Montreal if I can rather than only being able to take 10 players from Montreal and having to pick 4 players from the 8 teams with a bye.
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Might join, if you keep it simple.
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Yeah I'm in favour of that. One draft, take your chances on play in teams if you want to.
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I’m fine with anything. Keeping it simple and treating it as a 5 round playoff makes the most sense like EB said. But if we are including play-in then you have to include the round robin.
12 team H2H Most Cats Wins; Keep 6/winner keeps 7; G A PPP +/- SHP SOG HIT BLK PIM // W SV GAA SV% SHO
3 C, 3 LW, 3 RW, 6D, 2G, 5 bench
C - McDavid, Crosby, Tavares, Hertl
LW - DeBrincat, Boldy, Lafreniere
RW - Meier, Miller, Boeser, Nichushkin
D - Dobson, Karlsson
G - Jarry, Luukkonen