Nine days ago I whined here about my Fellow Fantasy Footballers not voting in my League Manager polls. The one that got the most participation was the first. It was about whether we should have a tie breaker or should ties be ties and fittingly it ended in a tie. I was supposed to break that tie by tossing a coin at draft day, but I forgot to do it. This morning I was in the office of the League Originator and another owner, so we decided to do the coin toss then. After finishing I emailed the rest of the owners:
From: The Commish
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 9:38 AM
To: The Owners Group
Subject: With apologies to Gertrude SteinBecause yours truly got so wrapped up in drafting players for his team last Friday I forgot to do the promised coin toss to settle the tie/tie breaker poll that ended in a tie.
This morning at League HQ, in the office of the EZEFFL’s CFO, monitored by a representative of the accounting firm of Price Waterhouse the matter was put to bed.
Thinking that this was too important to be decided by just a single toss, it was agreed to toss the coin 12 times, one for each team in the league. Heads would be a vote for ties counting as a tie and tails would be a vote for using a tie breaker. If the coin toss finished in a 6 to 6 tie, the tie would go to the ties, meaning, for the 2013 season, a tie would count as a tie.
With the first four tosses coming up tails it looked like the tie breaker would be carried forth from last year, but a late surge in heads towards the end made the count end up in a six to six tie.
So: A Tie is a Tie is a Tie is a Tie
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Brian Bogardus
Commissioner
End Zone Entourage FFL
Owner/Director of Player & Personnel
Purple Whales
That final poll I put up 9 days ago – nobody has voted in it yet…