Just to consolidate the existing idea for playoff predictions:
| Sqrl said: There will be a playoff prediction, but I'd rather push it to week 6 or week 8. It's still too early to know who will be in the playoffs but there is enough extra information to make it a bit less of guessing game. As for how it will be scored, I'm leaning towards a prediction bracket. Each team you predict to make the playoffs would be worth 1 just for making the playoffs. Then you would get an additional point for every game they win in the playoffs. In the meantime there would still be prediction weeks going on for the playoffs as well so you can choose from the teams actually playing. So for each conference you would pick 6 playoff teams for 12 teams total. There would be a maximum of 25 points available for correctly picking all of the playoff teams (4 from the Wildcard Week Losers, 8 from Divisional Playoff Week Losers, 6 from Conference Championship Losers, 3 from SuperBowl Loser, and 4 from the SuperBowl Winner). Basically you can look at this as everyone starting with 25 points and losing 1 point if a team they didn't select makes the playoffs. Then for each week that team they didn't select advances they lose another point. This combined with the normal weekly predictions during the playoffs and there is a ton of room for people to make comebacks or even for someone to run away with the competition.
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| Sqrl said: I would probably include an additional ballot starting in week 4 or so for people to make playoffs selections. I would cut off "on-time" submissions at probably week 7 or 8 and then allow late submissions at -2 potential points per week late (so you can predict in week 14 if you like but at a -12 or -14 point disadvantage). |
Please read over this and leave comments/questions, I will be finalizing these rules after week 2 is over.
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