I wish this league had the playoffs too.
EDIT: Can it be done? Does it even make sense? I don't know. But it would make it more interesting perhaps.
Playoffs only really works if we switched it to a h2h league. There are good things and bad things about playoffs.
Good: It gives people a chance to pull off upsets.
Bad: Fantasy playoffs always take place during the end of the NBA season when stars are being rested, some guys get shut down, young guys on tanking teams get a boost in minutes, etc... it becomes very unpredictable.
It would functionally be very similar to the tourneys I've been running manually. It's essentially what I've been doing... I take the top 10 teams and put them in the "Top tier" tourney. I take the bototm 10 teams and put them in the "bottom tier" tourney. The Spring Tourneys played out like this:
http://nedyken.com/cbpl/2014-15-spring-tourneys/ ... The #9 seed Ya'll Hate won in the finals vs the #2 seed Ubuntu Ya'll. Pitts missed out. If we had a Top 10 playoff, Ya'll Hate would be champion right now.
I understand not everyone is a fan of those side-tourneys... but if you want playoffs, that's pretty much exactly how the playoffs would work... except some teams wouldn't be involved at all. For instance, if you just limited it to the top 8 teams, Ya'll Hate wouldn't have even qualified. In the Tourney, I created a wildcard round so that every team could participate... Ya'll Hate won the wildcard round and then won the entire tourney.
My reason for doing Spring AND Winter Tourneys is to counter the fact that end-of-season NBA antics make fantasy playoffs unpredictable. Theoretically teams are going full-tilt in the Winter... so doing seasonal tourneys seems like a nice compromise... Only a couple of you guys have embraced it, though. Unless everyone collectively decides they hate them, I'll keep doing them for as long as I'm still in the league.
2013-14 Spring Tourneys - 1st tier winner - Utah. 2nd tier winner - Disciples -
http://nedyken.com/cbpl/2014-spring-tourneys/2014-15 Winter Tourneys - 1st tier winner - Pitts. 2nd tier winner - Brahma -
http://nedyken.com/cbpl/2014-15-winter-tourneys/2014-15 Spring Tourneys - 1st tier winner - Ya'll. 2nd tier winner - #lovetotrade -
http://nedyken.com/cbpl/2014-15-spring-tourneys/