(11-26-2018, 10:13 PM)Beaver Wrote:S1Changed my mind.
Arizona 9-5, 277 PF, 73 PD
Orange County 9-5, 249 PF, 53 PD
Yellowknife 8-6, 256 PF, 31 PD
Colorado 8-6, 250 PF, -3 PD
None of the four playoff teams change, which is good because this was the only season we didn't have a balanced schedule and I really don't feel like diving into re-litigating how the records might've been different in a 10 game balanced schedule or whatever zzzz. However, instead of Orange County and Yellowknife visiting Arizona and Colorado the two ASFC teams would be hosting the NSFC teams as Yellowknife travels to Orange County and Colorado to Arizona. This, most likely, would result in a different championship game from the one we actually had. In reality this may not be entirely accurate because of scheduling disparity so let's move on.
Mulled over a couple different ways to normalize the schedules and decided the easiest way to do it is to just ignore the first home and away game against a team's division rivals. This gives every team 1 home and 1 away game against every other team. I could've ignored the last game but I figure the games later the season have a bit more separation for teams (people zeroing in on strategies, high earners making a gap, etc) than the earlier games that are likely to have a bit more randomness. For example, the Otters and Outlaws played in Orange County in Week 1 and Week 14 so I'm figuring that the Week 14 game has less noise involved than the Week 1 game. It's definitely a marginal difference but that's the way the cookie crumbles.
New standings for Season 1:
Orange County 7-3, 190 PF, 56 PD
Yellowknife 7-3, 178 PF, 23 PD
Arizona 6-4, 198 PF, 40 PD
Colorado 4-6, 167 PF, -19 PD
Baltimore 3-7, 176 PF, -52 PD
San Jose 3-7, 170 PF, -48 PD
Arizona would've had to play 2 away games to win the S1 championship like this.
Then I decided the best way would be to average the two in-conference games. So to use the same example, Arizona won at Orange County 27-12 in Week 1 and lost at Orange County 23-16 in Week 14. This gets averaged into one game as 0.5 wins for each with a score of Arizona 21.5, Orange County 17.5.
Orange County 6.5-3.5, 176 PF, 38.5 PD
Arizona 6-4, 194.5 PF, 39.5 PD
Yellowknife 6-4, 179.5 PF, 14.5 PD
Colorado 5-5, 167.5 PF, -9.5 PD
Baltimore 3-7, 177.5 PF, -25 PD
San Jose 2.5-7.5, 139.5 PF, -58 PD
No matter how you slice it we get the same teams in the playoffs and the only interesting wrinkle is the shuffling of home field. In the 3 different standings we get 3 slightly different orders which could make all the difference for the games but makes pretty much no difference for our purposes here. Orange County hosts a semifinal in all 3, Arizona in 2 of 3, and the same 4 teams are in the Top 4 in all 3.