Help! Who wins out league?!

[Rangediddy]

Had our championship week in H2H Fantasy and it was a 4-4-2 tie!

As the league manager, I can’t figure out who wins.

Player A finished first in the regular season
Player B beat player A 2-1 in the regular season head to head matchups

The playoff ‘seeding’ rule is set to head to head record (which would go to player B)

The fantasy website gave the win to Player A (not sure how or why?)

What does everyone think should be the deciding rule?!

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[Bob Barker]

Playoff seeding would mean who gets what seed going into the playoffs. The playoff tiebreaker must be regular season record (or highest seed, same thing).

Eg. Two players are tied at the end of the regular season for 3rd place. 3rd seed goes to the team with the better H2H record. However, if there is a tie in the playoffs, the higher seed wins the matchup.

What platform are you using?

 

[Rangediddy]

ESPN... haven’t seen anything in the league settings or rules for playoff head to head tie breaks

 

[TheForsbergShow]

Well usually sites have a two or three Playoff tiebreak options (Higher seed, H2H matchup record)

By the looks of things the playoff seeding option is only in case there was a tie in the regular season to determine who was seeded higher. Once the playoff starts it looks like the tiebreak goes to the higher seed (team that finished higher in the standings).

So Team A is the winner (coming from a commish of two leagues) as it looks like ESPN's default tiebreak is for higher seed. Are you sure there isn't another option you are missing? I haven't used ESPN before for hockey so not sure of what commissioner settings there are.

 

[tmg]

On yahoo it is presently settable whether playoff tiebreak is higher seed or season head to head.

Yahoo used to have playoff tiebreaker use a pecking order of individual categories, so the winner of the Goals category would come out ahead in the event of a matchup tie; if that was tied too then the next tiebreak would be the Assists category, then +/-....

 

[Paranoid Android]

I can confirm ESPN uses higher seed as the playoff matchup tiebreaker.

 

[rangerssharks414]

I go by H2H in the regular season, so I'd say that B should win.