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as5680 · 10-13-2013, 08:40 PM

I can only speak from the experience of my own fictional league, where I have had byes in the play-offs for six seasons now. For the first three years, the top two seeds had a bye and since then only the top seed does.

The first round of the play-offs is exactly as the Division Series in real life - best of five with rest days after games two and four. Added to rest days after the end of the regular season and after the first round of the play-offs, it means the team(s) with a bye might not start the postseason until 10 days after their last regular season game.

Under this format, the championship has been won by a team with a bye four times out of six, and only two times out of nine has a team with a bye lost its first play-off series. It hasn't ever seemed to me that the teams with a bye have been put at any significant disadvantage.

10-13-2013, 08:40 PM	#6
as5680 All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Didcot, England Posts: 1,426	I can only speak from the experience of my own fictional league, where I have had byes in the play-offs for six seasons now. For the first three years, the top two seeds had a bye and since then only the top seed does. The first round of the play-offs is exactly as the Division Series in real life - best of five with rest days after games two and four. Added to rest days after the end of the regular season and after the first round of the play-offs, it means the team(s) with a bye might not start the postseason until 10 days after their last regular season game. Under this format, the championship has been won by a team with a bye four times out of six, and only two times out of nine has a team with a bye lost its first play-off series. It hasn't ever seemed to me that the teams with a bye have been put at any significant disadvantage.