whats the basic format for 8 team league to play round robin?
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Usually you split it into two divisions with four in each division. Each team plays the other seven teams once or twice (that's good for 7 or 14 weeks) then you start a playoffs. 1st plays 4th, 2nd plays 3rd in both divisions. Then you have a divisional final and then a championship final. You should have consolation rounds as well for the teams that lose out in the first round of the playoffs.
717651
That would put an odd number of teams in each league.  An even number is needed in order for each team to be playing regularly.
218192
Impossible without knowing the scoring system and how many teams are in your league.  (If there are 4, you have a crappyass team.  If there are 20, you have an outstanding team.)
1173470
The qualification procedures for each continental association differs, in Europe they use an initial round-robin league format, where the winners qualify automatically, and the runners up get drawn in a two-leg home and away play-off, in South America the ten teams just play one league, with the top teams qualifying... in other areas they have a seeding system whereby the smaller teams play off against each other and the larger nations come in for the later stages...
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Schedule is set for all but two games of the season in advance; those last two games are based on order of finish in the divisions.\n\nEach team plays 16 games:\n1. In division: You play everyone twice, home and away (6 games)\n2. In conference:\na. You play all of the teams in one other division in your conference once, home or away, such that if you played them at home last time that you were set up to play them this way, you will visit them the next time.  The division you play against rotates every year, so if you're an AFC East team, you may play all of the AFC South teams one year, the Central the next, and the West the third year (4 games)\nb. You play the other two teams in your conference who finished in the same position you did that aren't in the division you're playing above.  (2 games)  So, if you're in the AFC East and you finished third, and your division plays all of the AFC South teams, you will also play the third place team in the AFC North and West.  Home and away for these games are already set up.\n3.  Out of conference: You play all of the teams in one division in the other conference. (4 games) This rotates as well, so that you'll play every team in the other conference once every 4 years, and the sites are reversed after 4 years, so you will visit every other team at least once every 8 years.
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2 teams would require 1 game\n3 teams would require 2+1=3 games\n4 teams require 3+2+1=6 games\n5 teams require 4+3+2+1=10 games\n6 teams require 5+4+3+2+1 = 15 games\n7 teams require 6+5+4+3+2+1= 21 games\n\nSo the answer is 7
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Roto leagues are the ones that started this all. They run season long - instead of being reset each week.\n\nOkay - so we have cumulative stats from the start of the season.\n\nThen, for each stat (ie, HRs, RBIs, Wins, Saves...) the teams in the league are sorted by how they did in that stat. Then they are given points based on that order.\n\nSay you have 10 teams. The team with the most HRs gets 10 points. The team with the least, gets 1 point. Then the team with the most RBIs (might be a different team than the team with the most HRs) gets 10 points and the team with the least gets 1 point.\n\nDo that for all the stats in the league. And then sum up the points for each stat, and that is your roto score.\n\nSo, some days, you could knock in 10 HRs but your score won't change (if it doesn't give you more cumulative HRs than the team ahead of you) or you could knock in 2 and pass  3 teams ahead of you and score big points.\n\nIt is all based on relative performance, across the league. So you kind of need to pay more attention to every team, instead of the one team you're playing against that week. \n\nIt is a unique experience - maybe try a mid-season leagu to get your feet we.
1037153
I would just do the draft in person or in an online chat room if you can get everyone in your league together.  All of the free leagues are far too rigid to be any good.  Plus this way is flexible for last moment trades invovling draft picks.
983076
Not a bad idea as far as schedule balance, but I really don't like the idea of 3-team divisions.  Maybe you could enhance the size of the divisions without giving up the weighted schedule as you currently have it.  Otherwise, I just think the standings will look odd, and not rewarding the division winners in any way will make the divisions almost meaningless.  \n\nBetter to lump more teams together, but keep the "unofficial" groupings that you've created when it comes to scheduling.  That would allow you, if needed, to just have conference standings that reflect the playoff standings clearly.
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It deals with the task of putting together a league schedule.  Who plays who, where, when and so forth.  There are software tools available to help.\n\nCheck this out for a general explananation.\nhttp://www.askmen.com/sports/business_150/156_sports_business.html?RSS
799010
depends on how the league is set up\nb
873512
no, you can't, but Y! can...\nemail the fantasy people requesting one of the following playoffs and they will make the change....\n\nWeek 15 and 16    4 teams\nWeek 16 and 17    4 teams\nWeek 14, 15 and 16  6 teams \nWeek 15, 16 and 17  6 teams\nWeek 14, 15 and 16  8 teams \nWeek 15, 16 and 17  8 teams\n\n-nny
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Here is a PDF file containing a winners and losers bracket.  \n\nhttp://www.britfoos.com/Events/RunEvent/Downloads/tournament16c.pdf\n\nNow this is for 16 teams/participants, but it can be adjusted down for 12.  Typically, the four initial byes should be applied to the first round, and not applied later in the draw.
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4:\n1 vs. 4\n2 vs. 3\nwinners play\n\n5:\n5 vs 4\nwinner plays 1\n2 vs 4\nwinners play\n\n6:\n6 vs 3\nwinner plays 1\n5 vs 4 \nwinner plays 2\nwinners play\n\n7:\nnot too sure the best way to do that.
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16 teams advance to the next round.\n\nTherefore there needs to be 15 "losers" to determine the champion, so 15 more games to determine the champion, and a 16th game to determine 3rd/4th places.\n\nFor a team to win, they need to make it to the second round, and then win out.  This means a win in the final 16, a win in the quarter finals (final 8), a win in the semi finals (final 4) and a win in the finals (final 2).  Thus for a team to win the cup, they need to win 4 more games after they make it to the second round.\n\nThere are 6 games per group and 8 groups.  Therefore there are 48 group games and 48+16=64 games in all.
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Depends on how many teams, the competition level, and how serious you are.  I'll assume you have 9 teams: 1)  Set up 3 pools with 3 teams in each pool.  2)  Have each team play the other two teams in their pool.  3)  After this, seed each team in a tournament bracket according to their win to loss record.  Make it so the #1 team plays the #9 seed and so on.  Good Luck!
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okay okay\nfirst round is basically composed of groups\nthe top two teams with the best score advances to the next round\nthe scoring is determined by wins, losses, and ties.\nwins are 3 points\nlosses are 0 points\nand ties are 1 point\n\nafter the first round comes the second and then it is single elmination match