How to deal with potential COVID NFL game cancellations?

I run a survivor pool through OfficePoolStop. I am already getting questions from some of my players concerning game cancellations. For example, what if one of my poolsters picks a team whose game that week is cancelled or postponed (presumably within hours of kickoff) due to a COVID outbreak among its players or its opponents that week. How should the commissioner deal with that pick? Has anyone come up with solutions? I'm all ears. 

Kommissar Ken wrote:

I run a survivor pool through OfficePoolStop. I am already getting questions from some of my players concerning game cancellations. For example, what if one of my poolsters picks a team whose game that week is cancelled or postponed (presumably within hours of kickoff) due to a COVID outbreak among its players or its opponents that week. How should the commissioner deal with that pick? Has anyone come up with solutions? I'm all ears. 

Hi Ken,

Its a great question and ulimtately up to each individual manager. Currently the way the site software will handle it is the player would survive to the next week, but would slip in the tie-breaker because of one less win. So if two players are still alive when your league ends, the site software will use the tie-breakers here to decide the winner, and most wins is the first tie-breaker.

Fred

"I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers!"

Thanks, Fred. Very helpful ... as I knew you would be! Kommissar Ken

Hi Fred, what if the season were cut short or suspended indefinitely?  Would the system automatically apply the end of season tabulation?   Is there a way for the league manager to "call the season" and apply the end of season tabulation?

also Fred, if there is a make-up week at the end of the season with only some teams playing, will that be included as a week for the Survivor game, or excluded?

Christopher Krolak wrote:

Hi Fred, what if the season were cut short or suspended indefinitely?  Would the system automatically apply the end of season tabulation?   Is there a way for the league manager to "call the season" and apply the end of season tabulation?

also Fred, if there is a make-up week at the end of the season with only some teams playing, will that be included as a week for the Survivor game, or excluded?

Hi Chris, sorry for the late reply, I missed the email notification for the forum post.

The league manager currently already has a way to apply the end of season tabulation in their league settings, by changing the number of weeks in regular and post season accordingly. If the season was suspended, that's another story and we would have to decide how to handle it. My leaning would be to leave the standings as-is, as if frozen in time, and leave it up to the managers if they want to force season-end tabulation by changing their settings.

If an extra week is added at the end of the regular season, the one internal change we would need to make is set the number of weeks in the NFL season to 22. To make life easy on mangers we would proibably run a script that fixes everyone's settings so that there are 18 weeks in the regular season instead of 17. 

If you have suggestions on any of this please let me know. Thanks!

Fred

"I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers!"

regarding these instructions from the knowledgebase, what's the best way for a manager to tell before the pick deadline that one or more player has picked a canceled game?

Survivor Managers: If a player picks a team of a cancelled game before the game is removed from the pick sheet and the game hasn’t been played yet, its up to the manager to clear the pick and ask the player to pick another game.