SportsAndLady;1553830 wrote:Why doesn't the NFL just make the team w/ the best record the NFL champs? I mean, they had the best record over 16 games..
Comparing the NFL to fantasy football is retarded, you know it, I know it.
The only thing similar is the fact that the players/stats are used.
After that, the 'games' are nothing alike.
In a real NFL game my team has the ability to stop your team from scoring. In fantasy football I have zero control over your team scoring. I could score a billion points and still can not control the outcome because the other team can score a billion and 1. In that scenario my team did nothing wrong. In an NFL game if I score a billion and give up a billion and one I deserve to lose because my defense sucks.
The only thing you can control in fantasy football is how many points your team scores week in and week out. Fantasy leagues do head/head 'games' and playoffs because it is 'familiar' and easy to set up.
Many serious leagues are just going to "top half of each week in points get wins, bottom half in points each week get losses" instead of head to head.
I almost got in a huge money league ($500 entry) that did just that each week of the season (was a 16 team league, so top 8 got a win, bottom 8 got a loss). 8 teams made 'playoffs', in the playoffs top 4 in points of the 8 moved on to the next round. In the 2nd round, top 2 moved on, then you did have a single championship game.
THAT is a MUCH better way to determine a fantasy champion than how 99% of leagues do it.
Ours doesn't go that far, we are one step better than standard leagues though, since we reward scoring total points throughout a 16 game season instead of just what team happens to get lucky in the last 2-3 games of the year.
