First Annual FPF Cup Breakdown

The Inaugural FPF Cup Fall season is all set to kickoff on Tuesday, September 5th! 40 teams are divided into two tiers of twenty. Both tiers then have five opening round groups of four teams.

Each team has a set cap for the FPF Cup; they cannot surpass that total at any point during the entire tournament. This number is calculated by using the sum of offensive and defensive team ratings (using the top six ratings on each side of the ball, as always)- plus an additional 10 points to give teams some wiggle room.

Here are the rankings for all the teams in the tournament, along with their set cap.

 

#	Team Name	Cap	#	Team Name	Cap
	TIER 1			TIER 2
1	DK	1102	21	X-Men	838
2	FPF All-Stars	1100	22	No Name	837
3	Fine Wine	1100	23	Voodoo	835
4	Top Guns	1071	24	Trigger Happy Bunnies	832
5	Braves	1068	25	Hold My Beer	830
6	Freshii Superfoods	1023	26	Mean Machine	821
7	NR	999	27	All Hooks	802
8	Dad Bods	985	28	Warriors	795
9	Bearskins	965	29	Greendale Human Beings	790
10	Dans & Tams	958	30	Lockdown	788
11	Urgence Medic	929	31	Sons of Mitches	760
12	Lightweight	922	32	Prime Time	760
13	A-Squad	886	33	Sunday Touch Boys	700
14	Keyport Lock	880	34	North Shore Finners	700
15	The Commission	874	35	Los Banditos	700
16	Top Secret	870	36	Farmers	700
17	KGP RA	868	37	Bruins	700
18	Diablos	867	38	Dawson’s Caf Finest	700
19	Friends in Low Places	843	39	Ducks	700
20	Smokin’ Axolotls	818	40	Blacksox	700

 

*All new/predominantly new teams received a base cap of 700.

 

The opening round robin, which we’ve named the Preliminary Round, features three weeks of games, one against each of the other teams in a team’s group.

 

Here is how the Preliminary Round groups were set up based on team rankings. (To see the teams in each group, see your respective TIER overview page)

TIER 1
GROUP A	GROUP B	GROUP C	GROUP D	GROUP E
Rank #1	Rank #2	Rank #3	Rank #4	Rank #5
Rank #6	Rank #7	Rank #8	Rank #9	Rank #10
Rank #15	Rank #14	Rank #13	Rank #12	Rank #11
Rank #16	Rank #17	Rank #18	Rank #19	Rank #20
TIER 2
GROUP A	GROUP B	GROUP C	GROUP D	GROUP E
Rank #21	Rank #22	Rank #23	Rank #24	Rank #25
Rank #26	Rank #27	Rank #28	Rank #29	Rank #30
Rank #35	Rank #34	Rank #33	Rank #32	Rank #31
Rank #36	Rank #37	Rank #38	Rank #39	Rank #40

 

Teams can earn up to 6 traditional points (2 for each win) after the three games. In addition, due to the unavoidable disparity between some of the teams in the same group, we will be incorporating a spread for all games in the opening round. The spread is created by calculating the gap between two opponents and dividing it by ten and rounding up to the next 0.5. The team who “covers the spread” in each game will receive one bonus point that will be incorporated into the next round’s standings (Qualification Round).

Example of the spread: Team A cap is 1025, Team B is 905, the gap is 120 points (divided by ten). Team A is thus favored by 12.5 points.

Once all the Preliminary Round games are played and the opening round standings are complete, we split teams up into new groups, for a second round robin; the Qualification Round, assembles the five teams that finished in the same position in the Preliminary Round standings, into the same group. They are then seeded within those groups based on the amount of points they earned in the Preliminary Round and then by their Points Allowed and then Point differential.

We expect very tight matchups in this round as the pools are much more balanced!

 

Here is a breakdown of the Qualification Round pools:

TIER 1
Five 1st Place Finishers from Preliminary Round	Basmadjian Pool
Five 2nd Place Finishers from Preliminary Round	Khan Pool
Five 3rd Place Finishers from Preliminary Round	Sarwar Pool
Five 4th Place Finishers from Preliminary Round	Kolethras Pool
TIER 2
Five 1st Place Finishers from Preliminary Round	D’Aquila Pool
Five 2nd Place Finishers from Preliminary Round	Della Rocca Pool
Five 3rd Place Finishers from Preliminary Round	Dagenais Pool
Five 4th Place Finishers from Preliminary Round	Louis Pool

 

Teams will play five games in the Preliminary Round. The four final games will feature matchups against the other four teams in your group. The first game each team plays will be a cross-over matchup against the team holding the same seed in the adjacent group (pairings listed in table below) *

The standings reset in the second round, except for any bonus points earned in the Preliminary Round, by covering the spread, which carry over to the Qualification Round standings. Teams who go 5-0 in the Qualification Round games can earn up to 10 points in traditional fashion (2 points per win). As a result, a team can have a maximum of 13 points in the Qualification Round standings.

*Note that if the equal seeds in the adjacent pools were in the same Preliminary Round Group, and have already faced off, the next closest seeds will swap.

Example: Top seeded 1st place team and top seeded 2nd place team were both in Group B of the Preliminary Round, and thus have already played. Top seeded 1st place team would play 2nd seeded 2nd place team and vice versa, to avoid a repeated game.

 

Qualification Round – Week 1 – Crossover matchups
TIER 1
Equal seed in Basmadjian Pool	Equal seed in Khan Pool
Equal seed in Sarwar Pool	Equal seed in Kolethras Pool
TIER 2
Equal seed in D’Aquila Pool	Equal seed in Della Rocca Pool
Equal seed in Dagenais Pool	Equal seed in Louis Pool

 

Once the five weeks of games are completed in the Qualification Round, teams are then divided up again into groups of four for the Bowl Game Brackets, where everyone is guaranteed a semi-final game. The winners of the two semi-final games in each bracket meet in their respective Bowl Game!

 

Here is the breakdown for the Bowl Game Brackets:

 

 

TIER 1
Bowl Game Bracket	Semi Final #1	Semi Final #2
Kevin Wyeth Bowl Bracket	First Place Basmadjian Pool vs Fourth Place Basmadjian Pool	Second Place Basmadjian Pool vs Third Place Basmadjian Pool
Carmine Pollice Bowl Bracket	Fifth Place Basmadjian Pool vs Third Place Khan Pool	First Place Khan Pool vs Second Place Khan Pool
Patrick Chenard Bowl Bracket	Fourth Place Khan Pool vs Second Place Sarwar Pool	Fifth Place Khan Pool vs First Place Sarwar Pool
Kishon Thompson Bowl Bracket	Third Place Sarwar Pool vs First Place Kolethras Pool	Fourth Place Sarwar Pool vs Fifth Place Sarwar Pool
Rochdi Benabdelkader Bowl Bracket	Second Place Kolethras Pool vs Fifth Place Kolethras Pool	Third Place Kolethras Pool vs Fourth Place Kolethras Pool
TIER 2
Bowl Game Bracket	Semi Final #1	Semi Final #2
Paul Lapierre Bowl Bracket	First Place D’Aquila Pool vs Fourth Place D’Aquila Pool	Second Place D’Aquila Pool vs Third Place D’Aquila Pool
Adriano Tassone Bowl Bracket	Fifth Place D’Aquila Pool vs Third Place Della Rocca Pool	First Place Della Rocca Pool vs Second Place Della Rocca Pool
Tony Tabet Bowl Bracket	Fourth Place Della Rocca Pool vs Second Place Dagenais Pool	Fifth Place Della Rocca Pool vs First Place Dagenais Pool
Akked Moore Bowl Bracket	Third Place Dagenais Pool vs First Place Louis Pool	Fourth Place Dagenais Pool vs Fifth Place Dagenais Pool
Patrick Jerome Bowl Bracket	Second Place Louis Pool vs Fifth Place Louis Pool	Third Place Louis Pool vs Fourth Place Louis Pool

 

Here is an example of a team’s schedule

 

Game #1 – First Preliminary Round Game

Game #2 – Second Preliminary Round Game

Game #3 – Third Preliminary Round Game

(prior games’ schedule released August 27)

Game #4 – Qualification Round Crossover Game

Game #5 – First Qualification Round Game

Game #6 – Second Qualification Round Game

Game #7 – Third Qualification Round Game

Game #8 – Fourth Qualification Round Game

(prior games’ schedule released September 26)

Game #9 – Semi-Final Game

Game #10 – Championship Bowl Game (*if semi-final game won) 

(prior games’ schedule released November 6)