How many teams make the playoffs and what is format / schedule ( divisional ? )
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How many teams make the playoffs and what is format / schedule ( divisional ? )
From our users manual:
Playoffs and Championships
What it is: The ultimate goal
When you can do it: After Week 16.
Where it is: Playoff schedules, box scores, and play by plays are added as they occur after Week 16, in the same place where you view regular season schedules, box scores, and play by plays.
Each Sandbox league consists of 24 teams. Those teams are organized into two conference, the Lunar and Solar. Each Conference has three divisions, which each consist of four teams.
Five teams from each conference make the playoffs. To make the playoffs, you have to win your division, or you have to have one of the two best records among non-division winners.
In the first round of the playoffs, the two wild card teams will play each other. The winner then takes on the top seed among division winners, which is the team with the best record. In each subsequent round, the highest seed takes on the lowest seed until a champion (undoubtedly your team) emerges from the pile.
The tiebreakers in Sandbox are simple. The best record wins the first tiebreaker, and after that the best point differential wins the tiebreaker. If that's still a tie, we flip a coin or you may opt to fly to the other owner's city and send us a videotaped and notarized rock, paper, scissors thing. Frankly, we recommend just going with the coin flip.