The impact on FF from the Bengals/Bills game
 

What are you guys doing in your leagues?

Honestly, the only solution I can come up with is giving the team that was winning the "W" while splitting the pot (assuming the game isn't played).

Unless of course the game was essentially over, and the remaining players wouldn't have made a difference.

I'm seeing a lot of nonsensical solutions like counting the Bengals/Bills players week 18 points for week 17, splitting the pot based on % chance the win (projected points), etc.

It's unfortunate, and there are no perfect solutions, but I think this is the most logical/fair way to handle it.

we just decided to give people their money back. No harm no foul

Quit playing FF seems like the most logical solution to me.

I forgot all about it. But my goal was just not to be last; accomplished that a few weeks ago, so my intensity level is pretty low.

Nah, I'm too good to ever quit, regardless of how maddening it can be.

you seem quite miserable today...

Not sure yet. In the league I am commish in, I think I will wait until official word comes out if the game will not be made up. Then I will split the 1st and 2nd place prizes for those guys and the 3rd and 4th place prizes for those guys. Not sure what the guy who runs my other league is going to do but I am currently winning the 3rd place game and it's $400 prize (my opponent has the Bills defense and Josh Allen) so I'll be staying tuned.

This is exactly what I did in the COVID-shortened NBA bubble season in my fantasy NBA league, but this is a bit different.

In the context of this ending, I'd probably take a look and see how the football final was going and determine it from there. If the person behind had a legitimate chance, I think you have to split the money (while giving the leader the win). I lost my final before the Bills/Bengals game was even played, so I don't have to deal with this.

This is why I don't play ff

I'm in semis in my league. Up by 34. I had Singletary and my opponent had Allen.

This becomes much more difficult when it's not the championship.

You should be the one to advance, and if you want to be nice, give that guy their money back if you win.

I'm up 100 playing in the Super Bowl.

Opponent has a few guys left but no way he can catch me.

Yet I haven't won yet.

No I agree you definitely have to look at the situation too.

For example, I know of a league where the guy was winning by 1 going into the game playing against Burrow. Obviously the TD alone put his opponent in front by 5+, so he should get the W and the normal/standard split.

We just used the money to buy Brazzers for a year and the guys playing in the championship both got the password

It's going to be a tough call for the commish. He was up by 2 in his round but his opponent had McPherson while he had Gabe Davis.

For me, the gal I was playing had far and away the #1 team this year. So far I think we're all waiting to follow the lead of other leagues but everyone has sort of had different ideas/solutions offered so far.

Wait until the NFL makes a decision and go from there. It’s not like fantasy football decisions need to be hurried.

That sucks for the dude that was down by 1, but the commish should also move on.

Once people start trying to come up with other solutions, it gets VERY wacky IMO.

Oh I don't think anything should be final, but this is just a "how should we handle this if the game isn't played" conversation.

But yea, nothing should be finalized until we know for sure what's going to happen.

I had Burrow, Diggs and Bass being down only 3 points with 3 quarters left and the other guy had nothing more. I didn’t mean to bitch about it but I’m not splitting my money with someone who wasn’t going to win no matter what. Still waiting on the decision, but nobody is going to sit there with a straight face and say that I wouldn’t be the winner. Money is tight after property taxes and Christmas, not looking to lose money on something I couldn’t control. If you want to give part of my money somewhere put it in his toy drive and not in the pocket of a six figure earner.

Any commissioner who wouldn't give you the money in this situation (or any opponent who wouldn't accept the loss) isn't worth playing with anyway IMO.

This is a situation where common sense should prevail, but that isn't always the case.

I say that’s fair. Split the winnings for each final.

For the record I’m in this league and playing for the championship. I was winning by 1 pt going into last nights game. I had Mixon and he had Tyler Bass.

I was lucky enough to had been up 5 going into MNF, where my opponent was done Sunday, and I had burrow.

I benched burrow just to make sure I didn’t lose by a fluke 3 INT game and then injury

My league championship, therefore, wasn’t impacted

Our games were pretty much settled other than a couple extremely unlikely scenarios. I'm thinking of just giving the Bills and Bengals players their projected points. Or just ending it where it ended.

Glad to hear you're on board. I don't think anyone else will have issue with it. I emailed the league a bit ago.

Scheduling any fantasy games past week 15 or 16 is just asking for trouble.

this is something blake from workaholics would come up with lol

Just gonna guess you've never played fantasy football.

Only since 92', when you had to keep score off of box scores in the newspaper.

Players sit often when the playoffs are set. I thought this was a well-known thing.

I've played in a bunch of leagues and the latest one went to week 16 (back on the old 17 week schedule).

In my dynasty league championship, 1 team has Josh Allen, and is down 1.6 points to a team that has Joe Burrow. Obviously the guy with Burrow was in the lead when the game was stopped, but the rolled back points to zero today on MFL's site so he's back to being behind. There is $1800 on the line. The commish is proposing to just give each team the points that the players get in Week 18. Glad I'm not commish for this one.

And you play in leagues that don't play past Week 15? The second to last week of the season is pretty much considered Championship weekend across the entire community.

Where did I say we didn't play past week 14?

Ahh, you ninja changed the post.

(based on the old 17 week schedule)

Yeah, you must have been angry refreshing cause I was pretty fast. LMAO

LMAO

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Okay, Week 16 from 2020 and earlier would make sense. Just your original post made it sound like currently scheduling games past Week 15 or 16 was a bad idea when there are 18 weeks. All good though if what you really meant was only past Week 16 if the year is 2020 or earlier.

I still think of stuff on the old format.

Old age and all. :facepalm:

I still remember 94' when they had a 18 week schedule, and gave every team 2 bye weeks. I'm shocked they don't do that now because it would give the NFL viewers.

I won a 10 team league last week. Thank goodness we don't have this mess to deal with.

Cincy and Buffalo have heavy fantasy rosters.

That’s what we are doing in 1 of my dynasty leagues, just going to use week 18 points instead of Monday’s, 1st place $600. In my other dynasty league, 1st and 2nd just agreed to split pot, pretty even going into Monday’s game, both teams had a QB and WR to go. Team leading by 5 points going into that game is this year’s champion. We play on MFL and that site has already finalized the week with no points at all for Cinn/Buff players.

Congrats. Yeah I'm glad in the two leagues I commish none of the outcomes were affected even though every team had players from the game.

I just find that solution nonsensical.

Week 18 is totally different matchups. The only way it makes sense to give the Bengals/Bills players points if they resume the game at some point.

Anything else is just trying way too hard to fix something that can't be fixed.

It's unfortunate, and it's not "fair", but this is part of the game. Coming up with more unfair ways to try to fix it doesn't make sense.

League sites seem to mostly be deciding to just award zero points to all players in the game. One site I know of is planning to actually just award whatever points were in the box score Monday night. Most of these sites are saying "but your league can change the points and do whatever you want". It's mass hysteria.

Nice.


When guys are saying they are giving their money back, are they talking about the entire season?

Goodness, I would just split the pot for 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th if the game was affected.

I have Higgins and Bass and am winning the championship game 451.28 to 333.20 and he has/had Josh Allen and Stephon Diggs left.

It’s pretty safe to say I’m going to win the whole thing and the guy currently in second place is fine with whatever we decide and suggested just paying me out (it’s a wta league) but I don’t want to win it that way.

I think I’m going to wait to see what happens and possibly just use stats from the final week to finalize the scores.

I will win 3rd in my league - great comp this season. I am 28 pts ahead of my comp and she has only Evan McPherson left.

I'm up 351.25 to 350.5 in the championship. I didn't have anyone left and my opponent had Gabe Davis and the Buffalo defense. :eek:

Not sure exactly what we're going to do at this point.

Donating the proceeds to Hamlin’s charity is the easy call.

In the league I commish, the losing team went into the Championship matchup down by 22 points with Chase facing Tee Higgins and Gabriel Davis. They also had a 7% win probability at the time the game was suspended. So the decision is pretty easy in my case.

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Nothing is going to fix it, but if the owners who are playing in the championship agreed on this, then I don’t see an issue. If the owners didn’t agree we wouldn’t have went this route, we would have did what the MFL hosting site did which was give the team who was winning prior to the Monday night’s game the championship. The owner who was leading and would have been handed 1st place, didn’t want to win that way.

Ok, that's fair. If both owners agreed, that's on them.

It's just weird that people "don't want to win that way".

For instance, my opponent wasn't going to let me wait till week 18 when Hurts is back. He was perfectly fine "winning that way".

Guys go down in championship games every year and give you a dud. We had to deal with COVID in fantasy and people accepted those wins.

My league is mostly for shit talking and punishments for the loser. None of us take it over seriously.

So the only 2 games that matters is the championship (where one guy has a lead by 60 and the other guy has allen and diggs left) and the loser bowl (where one guy is up 25 but the other has Jamarr chase)

We decided to go the nerd route. If the game isn't played we will just roll some D&D dice based on the percentage chances each person trailing has of making a comeback when play stopped.

D&D for sports dorks.

Of course I've done both over the years.

Another option is to **** Billay’s mom and whoever lasts longer is declared the winner