Vacated Wins and Playoff Seeding

[Ole3putt]

No matter what that Childress man decides, somebody will be whining like a chained female dog in heat when it affects their playoff seeding.

 

and it'll show up in a matter of just a few wks.

[rlh]

and it'll show up in a matter of just a few wks.

 

Don't worry, it is only going to effect whether Gordy goes to Eagleville first or SP first.

[rlh]

Childress needs to get grilled really good on this whole vacated thing and games being as though they weren't played. It should be that no one get a loss and no one gets a win if it were as though the game wasn't played. This sounds like some sort of neoclassical Greek philosophy stuff.

[MountainTroll]

Childress needs to get grilled really good on this whole vacated thing and games being as though they weren't played. It should be that no one get a loss and no one gets a win if it were as though the game wasn't played. This sounds like some sort of neoclassical Greek philosophy stuff.

 

[rlh]

They have come up with a sanctioning system that is almost as complicated as the playoff system requiring the use of Voodoo Math.

[MountainTroll]

Teams that have had to vacate wins don't get to count them in playoff criteria 1.

 

Opponent victories are critical in criteria 2, 3, 4, and 6. Do the opponents of these teams get to count the wins that were vacated?

 

 

 

[silverpie]

First, a trip down memory lane. This is the "Bartlett rule," created to address a situation that occurred in 2007. It had appeared going into the final week that Bartlett had clinched a playoff berth going into Week 10, so they planned to play their bench . Then on Thursday or Friday before the game, Bolton finds an ineligible player and forfeits all its wins. This gives everyone except Bartlett and runaway champ Millington an extra win (those two had actually beaten Bolton on the field), and as a result, Bartlett went from "in" to "win or go home" with no time to re-prepare, against a Ridgeway team that knew all along they had to win. Ridgeway 23, Bartlett 20, and the Panthers are out.

 

Long story short, while the rule is vague in its wording, the intent is to deprive the guilty party of the benefit of its wins, without creating side effects among third parties. And the announced plan serves that intent. Here's my suggested revised wording: "In determining tie-breaking and wild-card criteria among teams other than the offending team, the as-played result is used."