Playoff Announcement
In keeping with the annual tradition of the league, we're hosting a playoff bracket. I'll just be using the rules from year's past, which you can read fully here if you so desire, but here is the gist of the idea if you're not familiar with it.
Rather than having everyone's picks be compiled into standings, each round will feature two individual users pitted against each other in a bracket format. Each user is responsible for submitting their picks both for each game's winner and the margin of victory. The winners of each round proceed to the next while the losers are eliminated. Winners are determined first by the number of correct picks, and if that number is a tie, the sum of the margin of victory.
To reward users for consistency during the regular season, we also have a little thing called Home Field Advantage. HFA essentially functions as a little extra boost. Should both users have the correct number of picks, HFA is a number that will be added onto the margin of victory number. The formula is as follows:
Home field advantage = (correct picks of the higher seed in the regular season - correct picks of the lower seed in the regular season) + ([PP of the higher seed - PP of the lower seed]/2)
And if the lower seed should have higher PP, the second half of the equation will simply be set to zero.
Should HFA produce a decimal, it will be rounded up.
If that all sounds very confusing, then don't worry and just try to predict more games right than your opponent. Here are the matchups for Wild Card weekend:
| # | Username | Record/PDT | vs. | Record/PDT | Username | # | HFA |
| 11 | Zakaro | vs. | Chris Hu | 4 | 17 | ||
| 10 | hatmoza | vs. | BTM | 5 | 12 | ||
| 9 | Farsala | vs. | MTZehvor | 6 | 6 | ||
| 8 | Castor | vs. | cycychris | 7 | 1 |
RolStoppable, Level1Death, and sethnintendo have byes through to the Divisional Round.
I believe this should cover everything. If you have any other questions, let me know.
Also for Farsala (and anyone else who might play me), send your picks to Rol, assuming he's still fine with it, in order to prevent any possibility of playing the numbers cheese game.
