[JasonC23]

I'm enjoying this thread immensely because I've been trying to figure out how best to balance regular season performance with the playoffs. My question is, how late in a particular season can I decide what, if any, playoff setup I want?

For example, take the 2 consecutive seasons in one of my fictional leagues shown below. In the first, Vancouver buried everybody, and I feel they deserve to win it all based on the regular season alone; why give anyone else a second, short-series chance to knock them off when they're clearly head and shoulders better than everyone else?

But in the second season, it would be a ton of fun to throw the top 4 teams into the playoff blender and see what comes out.

So, my question is, could I do that? Could I, as commissioner, decide that in year 1, there will be no playoff, but in year 2, there will be a 4-team playoff? Is that something the game can handle? If I do it correctly, would it be possible for everyone on Vancouver in year 1 to get the "champion" icon added to their profile, while in year 2, the players on the winner of the 4-team free-for-all would also get that "champion" icon?