[lightgrenade07]

I'm tweaking the playoff format for my fictional league, where the #1 seed in each league will get to "draft" their opponent for the division series. (i.e. I'll manually assign a division series matchup).

I'm curious to hear how you might go about drafting your division series opponent:

-would you just go based on overall season record? (pick the team with the worst regular season record)
-head-to-head records against specific teams? (pick the team you played the best against in the regular season)
-the opponent with the most fatigue in the starting pitching rotation? (pick the team where you can match your #1, #2 starters against the back end of their rotation)

etc

For context, here's the overall setup:

-2 subleagues of 20 teams each (40 total); 4 divisions in each subleague, 5 teams per division.
-In each subleague, the 4 division winners make the postseason, along with 3 wildcards.
-The #1 seed skips the wildcard round.

Seeds #2-7 participate in "Wildcard Weekend," where the higher seed has two chances to win one game at home. If the higher seed gets a win, the matchup is over; if the lower seed wins twice, they advance.

After Wildcard Weekend, the #1 seed and the three Wildcard winners make it to the Division Series, which is where I'll manually adjust the matchups based on "who the manager for the #1 seeded team wants to play against."

Most of the time, I'll probably just automatically go with "#1 seed drafts the lowest-seeded team." But for storyline purposes, it would be interesting to mix things up and have that #1 seed draft a different matchup from time to time. So I'm just curious to hear if anybody has thoughts on how they might personally approach that situation, if you were the manager for that #1 seeded team.