Need a little help here. I'm in a league that is supposed to have a 6 team playoff (1 and 2 seeds get byes). Well, unfortunately we have one playoff-bound guy that thinks he can pay his league dues with his winnings (assuming he gets any). The rule on that changed in this league...if you don't pay by playoff time, you're not in the playoffs.

Ideally we could just take the next team and put him in the playoffs, but that would be the league commissioner, and he doesn't want to make it seem like he changed a rule just to get himself in the playoffs.

The obvious problem is that we now have a 5 team playoff, and no idea how to run it over a max 3 weeks. The only idea I could think of is to give the top 3 seeds a bye, have 4 and 5 play each other this week, and then run it as a 4 team playoff on out. Anyone else have a decent idea of how to run that sort of thing?

P.S. The option of having a 6th playoff team is not available. We're not letting this jerkoff in, and we're not letting anyone else in, so our only choice for the amount of teams is 5.

Essentially, that would be the same thing as this...

The only idea I could think of is to give the top 3 seeds a bye, have 4 and 5 play each other this week, and then run it as a 4 team playoff on out.

...which is fine with me, and I think that's how it's gonna happen.