The Commish Responds

WatchBlog here. The Commish was dismissive, as expected, to the recent controversy, but at least he replied:

Well, Commish, if you aren't sure what WatchBlog is looking at, perhaps you should check your own email outbox:

In case you missed it:

Doesn't look like the Commish has himself ranked 6th to me. But what does WatchBlog know? (From WatchBlog's pre-season Draft Grades, it looks like not much...)
At least the Commish got one thing right. The actual playoff matchups do seem to be correct, even though the seeds were calculated incorrectly:

I guess all's well that ends well. Commish, just know WatchBlog will be watch(Blog)ing you. Good luck in the playoffs. WatchBlog out.

Playoff Seeding Controversy!

WatchBlog here. Well, the Commish, of course, did not agree with WatchBlog's playoff calculations, but since he showed his work, WatchBlog will too:

Note that while the teams getting in are the same, the seeding is different from the Commish's. WatchBlog has a different (read that: better) system for breaking multi-team ties. WatchBlog begins with all 5 teams, then advances the team with the best record against the other tied teams, and then removes that team from the field, and recalculates with the remaining 4, and so on, until all teams are seeded. Also, WatchBlog counts every win and loss, regardless of whether the teams played multiple times. In WatchBlog's system, all that matters is winning percentage, and whereas the Commish would say that 2-1-1 is the same as 3-2, it is not. One results in a .625 winning percentage, as the other results in a .600 winning percentage.  Count all the games Commish!

But ultimately, none of that matters. Even under the Commish's flawed system, the Battle Ostriches 2-1 (.667) and MotherBoy 2-1-1 (.625) have different winning percentages, with the Ostriches being higher. The Ostriches also won the head to head, and had higher points. Despite all that, MotherBoy is listed as the 5 seed, and the Ostriches, 6. Not sure how the Commish managed to seed his team ahead of the Ostriches, but I'm sure he had a really good reason. WatchBlog can't wait to hear it. Below is how WatchBlog figured the Playoff seedings:

	overall record	vs teams 4-8	pct.	vs teams 5-8	pct.	vs teams 6-8	pct.	vs teams 7-8	pct.
⁴Gamers	7 - 6	3 – 1	0.750	xx	xx	xx	xx	xx	xx
⁵BattleOstriches	7 - 6	2 – 1	0.667	2 – 0	1.000	xx	xx	xx	xx
⁶MotherBoy	7 - 6	4 – 2	0.667	3 – 2	0.600	3 – 1	0.750	xx	xx
⁷StJohn	7 - 6	2 – 4	0.500	2 – 3	0.400	2 – 2	0.500	2 – 0	1.000
⁸Juggernauts	7 - 6	1 – 4	0.200	1 – 3	0.250	1 – 3	0.250	0 – 2	0.000

Looks like the Commish has some 'splaining to do.

WatchBlog out

2014 CFFFL Final Standings and Playoffs

WatchBlog here.  Well, haven't been around much.  Doesn't look like much was missed.  Let's get to it.

The Commish has been working all year to make sure his team made the playoffs, and it appears all his hard work has finally paid off.  Despite ESPN leaving MotherBoy out of the playoffs and putting Josh's Juggernauts in, the Commish has "accidentally" scheduled the wrong teams, "accidentally" placed the CFFFL teams in incorrect divisions, and "accidentally" figured out a way to squeeze his team into the 6th and last playoff spot.  Welcome to the league Josh, it's like this every year!

The following is unofficial, but as best as WatchBlog can decipher how the Commish is going to manipulate this whole league in his favor, these are the actual final standings and playoff seedings:

Moe
¹NotAbootDwayne	9 - 4
⁵BattleOstriches	7 - 6
¹¹Phoenix	4 - 9
¹²You Wish	3 - 10
Larry
³Marshmallow Men	8 - 5
⁴Gamers	7 - 6
⁹Poppins	6 - 7
¹⁰Sic'em Bears	5 - 8
Curly
²PlayBoys	8 - 5
⁶MotherBoy	7 - 6
⁷StJohn	7 - 6
⁸Juggernauts	7 - 6
Playoffs
Round 1
¹NotAbootDwayne
vs
BYE
⁴Gamers
vs
⁵BattleOstriches
³Marshmallow Men
vs
⁶MotherBoy
²PlayBoys
vs
BYE

We will just have to see how the Commish will change this all after the first round, to make sure he advances to the CFFFL Championship. Stay tuned. WatchBlog out.