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Standings Glitch

By raidergreg69 - League Admin
9/21/2022 1:27 am
If you click on playoff picture in the drop down menu, they only list 7 teams for the American Conference with no teams "in the hunt". On our standings page though, it shows Los Angeles and Houston as not yet clinching while Honolulu is supposedly eliminated.

It's been said before people think the glitch occurs when 3 teams from the same division are in contention and that is the case here. At least this time it's easy to see the true playoff picture, which I'll explain in the proper post.

TL;DR Honolulu is not yet eliminated

Re: Standings Glitch

By raidergreg69 - League Admin
9/23/2022 2:32 am
Well one standings glitch was resolved when Honolulu lost, but now we have one in the National Conference. I could resolve it if I knew the MFN tiebreaker order, which somewhere diverges from NFL protocol.

One of Florida or Washington is not eliminated and I don't know who.

We could have a 5 way tie for the 3 wildcard spots and whichever set of rules used, we must first break the division tie. If Florida beats Jacksonville they will both be 9-7, splitting their 2 regular season games and having identical 3-3 division records. NFL lists next tiebreaker as common games, which Florida wins. If MFN uses conference records before common opponents than Jacksonville is over Florida win or lose.

All of that just to determine which Southeast team is involved in the 4 way tie.

Washington's potential eligibility hinges on which division tiebreaker MFN uses first, common opponents or conference record. Jacksonville beat Washington head to head, so if it ended up Jacksonville vs Washington in a tiebreaker, the Bulls have it. If Washington is in a tiebreaker with Florida instead, the Federals would get in based on conference record.