Pred's Fantasy Football Forums - View Single Post - Playoff tie-breaker???

chasmvp19 · April 11th, 2014, 01:50 AM

According to the rules a home playoff team gets free additional points awarded based on having a higher seed. Fine. Now if a tie occurs, this home team gets given the win? This seems counter-intuitive to me since the home team was already given a points advantage. How about consider "giving" the visiting team the win since the home team didn't score enough points to win the game outright with additional advantage. I could understand "giving" the home team the win in a playoff tie IF they didn't already have some sort of additional advantage. The way I see it the visiting team worked their tail off to overcome the bonus points AND the other team. The visitors fought harder for the tie than the home team.

I understand ties are fairly rare with the scoring structure. Regardless of this fact - there is a rule about playoff ties that doesn't quite jive, in my opinion.

Thoughts?

April 11th, 2014, 01:50 AM	#1
chasmvp19 Feeding Frenzy Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: All over...but mainly AZ and CO... Posts: 2,204	Playoff tie-breaker??? According to the rules a home playoff team gets free additional points awarded based on having a higher seed. Fine. Now if a tie occurs, this home team gets given the win? This seems counter-intuitive to me since the home team was already given a points advantage. How about consider "giving" the visiting team the win since the home team didn't score enough points to win the game outright with additional advantage. I could understand "giving" the home team the win in a playoff tie IF they didn't already have some sort of additional advantage. The way I see it the visiting team worked their tail off to overcome the bonus points AND the other team. The visitors fought harder for the tie than the home team. I understand ties are fairly rare with the scoring structure. Regardless of this fact - there is a rule about playoff ties that doesn't quite jive, in my opinion. Thoughts?