4 playoff spots in NOGFIAFP league?

Seems like we could have at least 6 with having 12 teams. Maybe even 8.

I'm confident V will get this corrected.

Fine by me, If that was your intent.

i have only done 12 team leagues with 4 playoff spots, but never with 3 divisions. 12 team leagues turn into a league of haves and have nots pretty quickly, and if the wealth isnt evenly distributed, undeserving teams can get in without scoring a lot of points.

it not a perfect system, but its fair and how the cookie crumbles is how it crumbles.

at 7-1 and top scorer, i can see myself not getting in

6 is too many, it lets in crappy teams.

5 teams will work.  3 divison winnners get a bye, next best record and highest scoring team can duke it out in a play in game.  or next 2 best records or 2 top scorers.
in the old days of the nfl (1980s) this is how it was done.
are we reallly gonna play 14 weeks to eliminate 6 teams?

We have a rule at our hunting cabin. If you bitch about the food.....you nominated yourself as the cook.

to me its different, it feels like the division winner actually won something and the 2 wild cards also won something.    when you make sure someone doesnt get left out, someone else that isnt deserving might get in.  i think the 3 and 2 is perfect. (for 3 division 12 team leagues)


but, i play in another 12 team league that allows 6.  the kicker here is that its an 11 week regular season.  everyone plays everyone else once. its one big division.
 no weak divisions, or strength of schedule arguments.  top 2 teams get a bye.  
if 6 get in, byes have to be part of the equation.  especially when there is zero money involved. 

Oh, I gave the schedule a lot of thought, it's totally by design and not a mistake. As you recall, I deliberately monkeyed with it to make it this way because I don't like the default. It's why I had to override the system which is why I rewrote the schedule in week one. Your last three games of the regular season are all division opponents. Your first three should have been as well, but I was slow to the punch, so it was three of the first four games instead.

We have 11 opponents and either 13 or 14 weeks to play them all. So there's going to be two or three games where you play somebody twice. The default is like we do it in 12 Geeks- No divisions, the extra games on the schedule are decided at random. There's going to be a luck factor regardless.

With 12 teams, I like to put them in three divisions and a 14 week regular season, because there's mathematical beauty with it. You get two games vs. three division opposnents (six) and eight non-division games- six plus eight = 14 weeks. That's a full round robin with two matchups vs division opponents. And since I wrote the schedule manually, I put as many division games as I could on weeks without bye interference- meaning the first few weeks or last few weeks of the season but week one was already in the books so I couldn't use that.

What happens in a 14 week season though is that it's best suited for a four team playoff. You only have weeks 15 and 16 to work with unless you want to use week 17. Another option would be four divisions with three teams in them, I don't like that too much, but it would work well to support a 6 team playoff.

I like this way better. Yeah, one division may be weaker than that one, but you run into the same thing if you get lucky or screwed on which two extra teams you face in the default setting. Cult Classic is nice in that with 14 teams, you don't need divisions. Play everybody once (13 games) and have a three week window for a six-team playoffs. 12 makes you think more.