This screen will allow you to define up to ten separate playoff brackets for your league (most leagues will only use one for playoffs and some will use another for a "toilet" bowl).

Use this screen to define the general information for your playoffs.

Bracket Name - Enter text to define a name for a bracket.  Once defined, the bracket will be used for this league.

# Teams Involved - Specify the number of teams that will participate in this bracket.

Starting Week - Choose the initial week in which this bracket should begin.

# Games in Starting Week - Specify the number of head-to-head matchups to be scheduled for the above "Starting Week".  In most cases this will simply be one-half of the "# Teams Involved".  However, your league may choose to schedule one or more bye's for the first round.

Bracket Winner Title - Enter the text to describe the title of this bracket's overall winner.

Set Up 3rd Place Game? - Check this checkbox is you'd like the system to automatically create a third place game for you.  If this checkbox is selected, the system will automatically create a new 2-team, 1 game bracket that happens in the same week that the championship game for this "parent" bracket happens, and it will automatically insert the two losers of the semi-final games into this new bracket.  Once this bracket is automatically created by the system, you're free to edit or delete it as you would any other bracket.

Delete? - Click on this link to completely remove any unused brackets from your league.  Keeping partially define bracket is not desirable as it could have unintended side-effects for other brackets.

Add to Home Page? - Click on the "Add" link to direct you to the Home Page Setup.  Here you can add the Playoff Bracket to your currently used modules.  See Home Page Setup for more details.

When finished, you MUST click on the Save Playoff Setup button in order to apply your changes.  Once completed, you will be prompted to continue to the Playoff Schedule Setup screen.

Example #1:

8 total teams in league, top 4 teams advance to playoffs, bottom 4 teams advance to loser bowl.  Regular season concludes with week 14.

Bracket #1: Championship

# Teams Involved: 4

Starting Week: 15

# Games in Starting Week: 2

Bracket Winner Title: Fantasy God

Bracket #2: Toilet Bowl

# Teams Involved: 4

Starting Week: 15

# Games in Starting Week: 2

Bracket Winner Title: Flushmaster

Example #2:

12 total teams in league, top 6 teams advance to playoffs.  Regular season concludes with week 13.

Bracket #1: Championship

# Teams Involved: 6

Starting Week: 14

# Games in Starting Week: 2

Bracket Winner Title: Fantasy God

*Note that in this example, there are still only two first-round matchups defined.  Two teams will have a first-round bye.

Example #3:

24 total teams in league (2 conferences/divisions), top 12 (6 in each conf/div) advance to playoffs.  Regular season concludes with week 13.

Bracket #1: AFC

# Teams Involved: 6

Starting Week: 14

# Games in Starting Week: 2

Bracket Winner Title: AFC Champ

Bracket #2: NFC

# Teams Involved: 6

Starting Week: 14

# Games in Starting Week: 2

Bracket Winner Title: NFC Champ

Bracket #3: Championship

# Teams Involved: 2

Starting Week: 17

# Games in Starting Week: 1

Bracket Winner Title: Fantasy God

*Note that in this example (for each conference bracket), there are still only two first-round matchups defined.  Two teams will have a first-round bye.

Example #4:

16 total teams in league, top 8 advance to playoffs.  Additional 3rd, 5th, and 7th place games defined.  Regular season concludes with week 13.

Bracket #1: Championship

# Teams Involved: 8

Starting Week: 14

# Games in Starting Week: 4

Bracket Winner Title: Fantasy God

Bracket #2: 3rd place

# Teams Involved: 2

Starting Week: 16

# Games in Starting Week: 1

Bracket Winner Title: 3rd Place

Bracket #3: 5th place

# Teams Involved: 2

Starting Week: 16

# Games in Starting Week: 1

Bracket Winner Title: 5th Place

Bracket #4: 7th place

# Teams Involved: 2

Starting Week: 16

# Games in Starting Week: 1

Bracket Winner Title: 7th Place