I was looking over my team and realized that I have a ton of guys that are off in week 13, or championship week. It’s not like I have players from schools no one else is using, so I’m guessing this would be aproblem for all 8 of us.

At first, I thought, “We should have the 11 game schedule, then just have the top 2 teams play in the ‘BCS’ Championship game. It’d be like College Football and it would end in week 12. Could throw 150 to the champ, 50 to 2nd place.” While I do really really like this in an 8 team college football league, I realize that some people might not like the idea of someone 3-0 suggesting this idea. I would never suggest something to personally benefit myself but I understand.

So then I thought more and realized the 11 game schedule meant playing every team in your division twice, every opponent in the other division once except one of them you’d play twice. That’s 6 division games and 5 non-division games. If we stick to this, since it’s not really unbalanced I think the top 4 overall should advance, not simply 2 from each division. But my proposal actually works out a few ways. I think we should drop the 11th week where we play a non-division foe. 10 week regular season. 6 Division Games, 4 Non-Division Games. Keep what Wells said, with 2 teams from each Division making the 4 team playoff. Playoffs are in Weeks 11 and 12.

I think that really works out well for everyone and everything we’re doing.

I also propose that if we keep to 4 teams making playoffs, we adjust Wells’s payouts just slightly, and have them at $125 for the champ, $25 for runner-up, and $25 to each division winner. I know not a big difference between 20 and 25, but I like the idea of that type of payout being the ole “your money back.”