Week 12 LoL FFL Post:

Kyriacos is out again this week..

WEEK 12 RECAP

Ali v Naz

I absolutely destroyed Ali. Should’ve won $10. SMH.

Ahsan v Colten

Dolphin’s defense carries Ahsan to the win in a low scoring affair.

Humza v Rimmel

Daniel Carlson kicked Humza out of the playoffs.

Parth v Yas

Yas Kupping up with Kcos at the top of the division and making the road to the playoffs tougher for Parth.

Alex v Sean

No one deserves to win this one. 4-point win in the lowest scoring game this week.

Chris v Kcos

The highly anticipated game of the week. Kcos wins the rematch. They split the season 1-1. Destined to meet in a rubber match for their playoff lives.

A LOOK FORWARD

Yas v Kcos this week for the division, #1 seed, and bye week in the first round of the playoffs. The biggest game we’ve had this season. A lot riding on this game. Stay tuned.

Here’s ESPN’s breakdown of playoff seeding tiebreakers for anyone that wants to know now. Will play out scenarios next week:

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Playoff Seeding: How Regular Season Standings Tiebreakers Work

The first step toward winning your Fantasy League Championship is to be seeded in the Playoff Brackets. This process can be confusing so the information below will help clarify potential scenarios.

The easiest way to think of how Seeding Tiebreakers work is that it is a sequenced process repeated for each bracket seed. Once a seed is determined, the process starts all over again until the next seed is determined. Then it begins again until all ties are resolved and the playoff brackets are complete.

When a league converts into Playoff Mode the system automatically generates a seed for each team in the league based on the regular season results. The seeds determine where the system places each team in the playoffs. The primary factors used to determine seeds are:

• Division Winner(s)

• Winning Percentage

In the event that two or more teams have the same winning percentage at the conclusion of the Regular Season, the Tiebreaker processes illustrated below are used.

NOTE: LMs are able to select from and reorder the following to determine the seeding tiebreakers for their league.

STANDARD SEEDING TIEBREAKER SEQUENCE

1. H2H Record (overall) among the tied teams

   1. If these teams have not all played each other and an equal amount of times then the H2H tiebreaker is invalid, and we proceed to Points For

2. Points For

   1. Most points wins

3. IntraDivisional Record (best H2H record within the same division)

4. Points Against

   1. Most points wins*

5. Coin Flip

* In Fantasy Football you have no control over how many points your opponent scores against you, so Points Against is a proxy for the NFL's "strength of schedule" tiebreaker. Assuming a comparable schedule, the team with more Points Against played a stronger schedule and thus wins a tie.

Note: Once a team has been seeded, the process starts back at the H2H Record

Tiebreaker Process when Two Teams are Tied

1. H2H records between the two teams are compared. (Best record wins)

2. If the records are the same, we compare their Points For.

3. If tied in Points For, we compare their IntraDivisional Record.

4. If the IntraDivisional Record is tied, we compare Points Against. (Most points wins)

5. If for some reason the teams remain tied, a virtual coin flip will determine the seed.

Tiebreaker Process when MULTIPLE Teams are Tied

When more than two teams are tied, it is essentially rinse and repeat for each remaining seed.

1. Compare the H2H record of all teams that are tied – team with the best H2H record is the top seed

2. Out of the remaining teams, once again assess the H2H record.

   1. If the remaining teams did not play each other an equal amount of times, compare the Points For and the team with the highest Points For is the next seed

3. Repeat step 2 until all tied teams are seeded

Below is an example of how SEEDING tiebreakers work

The main things to remember are:

1. Teams must have played the same number of head to head games amongst each other

2. Tiebreaker process starts over from the beginning after each tie is broken for each bracket seed

All five teams in this example have a season record of 7-5

• Team A: 3rd in division 1 with 825 Points For.

  • They beat teams B and E, and lost to teams C and D

• Team B: 2nd in division 1 with 918 Points For.

  • They beat team C, lost to teams A and E, and did not play team D

• Team C: 1st in division 2 with 725 Points For.

  • They beat team A, and lost to teams B, D, and E

• Team D: 2nd in division 2 with 720 Points For.

  • They beat teams A, C, and E, and did not play team B

• Team E: 1st in Division 1 with 920 Points For.

  • They beat teams B and C and lost to teams A and D

FIRST, we SEED the division winners

• Teams E and C won their divisions.

  • Team E beat Team C in their Head-to-Head matchup

  • Team E gets the #1 seed and Team C gets the #2 seed.

NOTE: In some LM leagues, there may be no divisions, in which case, this step is skipped and (barring a tie) the top-ranked team is assigned #1 seed.

Now we have to DETERMINE the #3 seed

We begin this stage by comparing Head-to-Head Records against each other.

• Teams A, B, and D all have 7-5 records

  • Team A beat team B and lost to team D, so they are 1-1 head to head

  • Team B lost to Team A, and did not play team D, so they are 0-1 head to head

  • Team D beat team A, and did not play team B, so they are 1-0 head to head

IMPORTANT NOTE: Since the three teams did not play the same amount of Head-to-Head games, we have to go the next tiebreaker - "Points For".

Using the "Points For" tiebreaker

Team B gets the #3 Seed as they have the most Points For of the three remaining teams.

• Team A has 825 Points For

• Team B has 918 Points For

• Team D has 720 Points For

Time to assign the #4 seed

Exactly as before, we start with Overall Record and work our way through the sequence of tiebreakers. Since teams A and D have identical 7-5 records, we look at their Head-to-Head matchup/s.

Since team D beat team A, D would get the 4th and final playoff seed.

• Team A beat Team B and lost to team D

Team D beat Team A, and did not play team B

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NAZ’S NOTES & AUCTION REPORT

- Nothing this week…

WEEKLY PAYOUTS

Week 12 Most Points: Kyriacos

- Humza: $10

- Yaseer: $30

- Kyriacos: $40

- Sean: $10

- Parth: $20

- Nazim: $10

Week 12 Least Points: Parth

- Kyriacos: 2

- Sean: 2

- Parth: 2

- Colten: 3

- Rimmel: 3

Kicker Impact in Week 12: None

YTD: 7x

- Ali: 2-2

- Alex: 2-1

- Sean: 1-0

- Colten: 0-1

- Parth: 0-1

- Ahsan: 1-0

- Kyriacos: 1-0

- Chris: 0-1

- Humza: 0-1

WEEK 12 POWER RANKINGS

WEEK 13 PREDICTIONS

Alex v Naz: 93-118

Sean v Humza: 95-83

Ahsan v Parth: 103-119

Yas v Kcos: 108-109

Rimmel v Ali: 103-97

Colten v Chris: 105-107

Top Scorer: Parth

Week 12 Predictions: 2-4

YTD: 32-34

WEEK 12 BETS REVIEW

Naz’s Pick-6 (Game Lines for Bets):

1. [L] Tennessee Titans (+7) @ New England Patriots

2. [L] Philadelphia Eagles (-3.5) @ New York Giants

3. [L] New York Jets @ Houston Texans (-2.5)

4. [L] Los Angeles Chargers (-2.5) @ Denver Broncos

5. [L] Minnesota Vikings (+2.5) @ San Francisco 49ers

6. [L] Seattle Seahawks (+1.5) @ Washington Football Team

Week 11: 0-6 | -600

YTD: 30-38-3 | -1380

Naz’s Daily Dump (FanDuel Daily for Bets - $60,000: 50/50 League):

[LOSER] 66/100

QB: Cam Newton - $8,000

RB: AJ Dillon - $6,900

RB: James Robinson - $7,600

WR: Nick Westbrook-Ikhine - $5,700

WR: Brandin Cooks - $6,500

WR: Jalen Waddle - $6,700

TE: Kyle Pitts - $6,600

FLEX: Jamarr Chase - $7,700

DEF: Philadelphia Eagles - $4,300

YTD: 4-7 | -510

WEEK 13 BETS

We’re taking the week off… it’s been a rough stretch!