The Commissioner has a dilemma.
How to deal with the expanded 12 team CFP playoff.
My thinking is that we still have to offer a reason for a Player to pick a team that is unranked or way down the AP Poll.
Therefore I've come up with this shit-fest:
At the top of the heap, the top twelve AP teams, things stay the same. Pick number one, start at minus twelve. And so on. (We changed from the top ten because there is now a twelve team playoff. This was DPo's suggestion).
But the playoffs. Well, the twats that came up with the expanded CFP system decided to use all six New Year's Six games for the first six playoff games. The quarter finals and the semis. That means the Rose, Sugar, Peach, Cotton, Orange and Fiesta bowls are all CFP playoff games now.
Additionally, there are still conference championship games but they don't mean as much. You win your conference championship though, hey, I still think you should get, say, 3 points. So these games mean a lot to us, in the BRFL. Or at least to me.
Also, there are still, at least for now, regular bowl games, which are mostly just a complete mess.
So, here is the proposal:
Conference Championship game win still pays 3 points.
Regarding the CFP playoff games, I propose that if your team is a top 4 CFP team and has a bye the first round, you get one point for that. You get a point. Good for you.
If your team is playing in the quarterfinals and wins, you get 4 points for that.
If your team makes it to the semis and wins you get 5 points for that.
Win the National Championship game and you get 7 points.
So, a team playing in the quarterfinals and winning out could rack up 16 points. Last year the most a team could accrue in the playoffs was 11.
Regular-ass, boring and impossible to pick bowl games pay 2 points. If your team makes it to the Syphillis Bowl most of your quality players are going to opt out and you'll have an interim coach anyway so it doesn't really matter.
Here's the wrinkle; if you pick an unranked team you START at +7. If you pick the #25 team you start at +5, #24 is +4, 23 is +3, 22 is +2, 21 is +1.
I did this because, with the expanded CFP, a low or unranked team would have to just catch fire and stay red-hot to ever even come close to catching up to the top 10 or 12 teams. That doesn't happen very often.
GG stays the same. Probably with fewer bowl games though. Those fucking games are just a coin flip. I know it, you know it and the American People know it.
Thoughts?
Lance Herbstrong,
Commissioner for Life
