Playoff Chances: 97.5%, Reach Championship: 49.8%, Win Championship: 24%

And I will promptly lose my first game by 30 points because of this.

Didn't know there was a draft grade thing, might as well check out how I did...

Ok yeah these predictions are ridiculous. Going 12-1 or 1-12 in fantasy just doesn't happen. There's enough unpredictability within the "sport" that you're always going to pick up at least a couple of unpredictable wins/losses.

Anyway, since we're all predicting our chances at making the playoffs, we should go ahead and talk about that. There's a couple of things I'd like feedback on. As of right now, the playoffs are set up for six teams (half the league) to make it. That means first round byes for two teams, while everyone else plays each other. So with this in mind, here are some questions to think about; I'm open to changing the current status of the league based on what people want.

-Does anyone want the playoffs expanded or shrunk? (I like 50% of teams making it, so there's gonna need to be a pretty persuasive argument to shift my thinking here)
-How should the first round byes be determined? Simply the two best records, or should both division winners be guaranteed a bye?
-Should teams that finish second in their division be guaranteed a playoff spot?
-Would you prefer a playoff bracket that reseeds after each round? In other words, the team that finishes with the best record will play the team with the worst record still in the playoffs? Or should we have a fixed bracket? (Note: I'm not sure if I can pull the reseeding bracket off, so this is still a work in progress).

I'm cool with 6 teams in the playoffs. My personal preference would be best records, regardless of division placements, and no reseeding after rounds.

Well, it can...to an extent.

I can control who plays each other in each week, so if anyone's interested, we can fiddle with the schedule for those two weeks to keep it from just being "play who you played in Weeks 1 & 2 again." Potentially power matching, or using it to match teams up against each other that might otherwise have a playoff spot decided by tiebreaker.

And what did you offer him in return?

Haha, nice

My predictions. I didn't know how to get the quote thing out.

Useless trivia time: If this bracket played out as predicted, it would be the first time since the NFL playoff format went to a 6 team playoff format in 1990 that every division champ won on wild card weekend in consecutive years. Additionally, this would be only the fifth time all home teams have won on wild card weekend since the aforementioned bracket change. Perhaps as a somewhat worrying sign to the NFL's unceasing desire for parity in the league, each previous instance has occurrred since the turn of the century (2000, 2006, 2011, 2016). Additionally, each of those years featured one #1 seed being upset in the divisional round.

Why not both? Go big or go home...or maybe just on a slightly lower spot on the prediction leaderboard.