Fairfax County Flag Football League

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subject: "A League Schedule Question"

A Leaguer

Oct 09, 2008
10:45 PM

ANNOUNCEMENT:

;	Hey Tom, "For divisions with less than 10 teams, each team will play 8 regular season games with all teams making the playoffs." Just wondering how that will play out for the remainder of the season with only 7 teams. Thanks

good question

Oct 10, 2008
7:59 AM


;	that is a good question...tom, could you break it down for how the playoffs are going to work and who is going to make it for a , b, and c???

Answer

Oct 10, 2008
8:03 AM


;	"For divisions with 10 or more teams, each team will play 9 regular season games, with the top 8 making the playoffs for a 10/11 team league, top 10 making the playoffs for a 12-14 team league, top 12 making the playoffs for leagues with more than 14 teams. For divisions with less than 10 teams, each team will play 8 regular season games with all teams making the playoffs."

possibility

Oct 10, 2008
11:11 AM


;	the top team will probably have a bye in the first round of the playoffs b/c the wolves will technically make it, and they could just forfeit that game too.

TOM
admin

Oct 14, 2008
11:00 AM


;	A League Teams: In order to guarantee 9 games, we`ll drop the first round A playoff losers into a consolation tournament bracket. Game 8 will be your first round playoff game, and game 9 will either be your consolation tournament semifinal, or A League playoff semifinal. The highest seeded first round loser gets a bye to the consolation championship (since there are only 7 teams). The #1 seed in A gets a first round playoff bye - goes straight to the semis. Its possible (if the #1 loses their semi) that one of the A teams will only have 8 games played. If this is the case (and if the #1 seed wants to), we`ll reconfigure the consolation bracket for 4 teams - to include the #1 seed who lost their semifinal.

RockHardTen-92Locs

Oct 14, 2008
1:51 PM


;	Tom, I think, and you guys can chime in, that most teams would rather have another regular season game opposed to having a consolation bracket.

playHard

Oct 15, 2008
12:50 PM


;	I love the game of flag football and I do look forward every week to play. I play for this league and one other league but the way fairfax league play is wack and there are more people crying then playing hard. The other league I play for is nonthing like the ***** level of guys who play here for fairfax.

whats

Oct 15, 2008
3:09 PM

whats

Oct 20, 2008
9:13 AM


;	yeah this league does have some sorry players

TOM
admin

Oct 20, 2008
10:58 AM


;	most teams would rather have another regular season game opposed to having a consolation bracket you are probably right, but there is no way to schedule that 8th regular season game without unfairly tipping the balances. As it is, there is a chance we`ll have 3 teams at 4-3 and 2 teams at 3-4. Adding that 8th game would could drop (or raise) a team based on unequal strength of schedule i.e. team x had to play (stronger) team y twice, while team z played an easier opponent twice, and team z just jumped ahead of team x.

92Locs

Oct 20, 2008
11:29 AM


;	Tom, I totally understand. I was thinking that maybe that last game would be a random draw and you get what you get. However, I have talked to some other teams and they didn`t seem to have any problems with it as long as the consolidation teams don`t have the option of making it back into the championship rounds. So I`ll leave it alone. Thanks again for you, Shay and Rob`s hard work through out the years. p.s. Were you implying that Triple Crown would lose tomorrow? :o)