RolStoppable said:
It's not. Firstly, how would I even record this? There are 256 games across 17 weeks (every NFL team has one bye week), so such a system could possibly make the participants in the prediction league end up with a different amount of total games being recorded (some guys have their worst weekly score during a 16 games week while others have their worst record during a 14 games week). I could count this suggested bye week as 0-X ("X" being the number of games in a given week) to achieve a common total, but this defeats its purpose. Why would anyone want to go 0-X when they got 5-11 or 4-10? Secondly, it's poised to cause an imbalance. There might be players who will never go below 7-9 while others end up with 3-13 at one point. This suggested bye week would penalize better predictors, because they would get more correct picks removed from their overall total. There's no way I am going to implement a "the harder you suck, the bigger your reward" rule. Thirdly, what exactly is the harm of having a bad week anyway? It's likely to happen to everyone at some point, albeit to different degrees. If someone can't handle losing, then maybe they shouldn't play a game in the first place (this league is a game). |
If you reread my statement I said one WEEK. So over the 17 weeks, you simply look at the worst record for each person and delete that record so for each person you are only using their top 16 records. You only need to do it once (after week 17).
Granted you already started this league and really the rules are very well laid out. I just tossed it out as a suggestion... because I did so bad lol. So if you don't want to do it because we've already started, then its all good. But its not a bad idea. It allows for extremes and the, hopefully, one time you may miss getting picks in on time, etc.
