# Head 2 Head - 2 week playoff - how many starts?
**URL:** https://community.ottoneu.com/t/head-2-head-2-week-playoff-how-many-starts/6159
**Category:** Ottoneu Basics
**Tags:** faq
**Created:** [September 13, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/head-2-head-2-week-playoff-how-many-starts/6159 "2019-09-13T14:17:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@hpw](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/hpw)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/head-2-head-2-week-playoff-how-many-starts/6159/1 "2019-09-13T14:17:20Z")
Niv, I’m in league 532 and our starts per week is set to 9. We have a two week championship week…how many starts total do you get for the 2 week playoff? Is it 9 or 18? If I look at my starts remaining today (9/13) it says I have 5 starts left, but if I go to Monday’s roster lineup it says I have 9. If I click on the details for the matchup it says we each have 9 left, but I have already made 4 starts this week.
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/head-2-head-2-week-playoff-how-many-starts/6159/2 "2019-09-13T14:27:53Z")
> [@H2H Playoff Caps](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/h2h-playoff-caps/5290/9):
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> Good question! Long matchups and the championship game are treated separately. The championship game should reset the GS cap on Monday. The GS cap will not reset for a long matchup, i.e. around the All-Star break.
> [@Summary of New per matchup GS Cap league option for 2019 season](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/summary-of-new-per-matchup-gs-cap-league-option-for-2019-season/4674/1):
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> For 2-week playoff matchups and 2-week playoff matchup only, the cap applies separately to each week of the matchup. For example, in an league with a per-matchup cap of 8 GS, teams have up to 8 starts available in week 1 and 8 starts available in week 2. They cannot carry over unused starts from week 1 into week 2.
This is also on the rules page:
I. e. ii. D. In two-week playoff games, the GS cap will reset at the end of the first week and before the second week begins on the second Monday in the matchup
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### Author:  [@hpw](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/hpw)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/head-2-head-2-week-playoff-how-many-starts/6159/3 "2019-09-13T14:31:24Z")
Thanks Niv. That answers my question.
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/head-2-head-2-week-playoff-how-many-starts/6159/4 "2019-09-13T15:34:08Z")
This should help document it for the future as well. Good luck in the playoffs!
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### Author:  [@lunamink1](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/lunamink1)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/head-2-head-2-week-playoff-how-many-starts/6159/5 "2022-10-01T19:04:52Z")
Hey, sorry to bother Niv, I’m in the finals in my H2H league and it’s a 2 week championship.
However, on the league page it says the final week will last from, SEPTEMBER 26 TO OCTOBER 5, instead of ending this Sunday October 2nd.
Is this accurate or is this just a visual bug? If it’s accurate does the weekly starter cap reset on Monday or is it just 10 starters for those 10 days?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2022, 7:27pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/head-2-head-2-week-playoff-how-many-starts/6159/6 "2022-10-01T19:27:50Z")
> [@H2H set lineups for Championship round](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/h2h-set-lineups-for-championship-round/12118/10):
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> I should explicitly point out that the 2nd week of the finals this year is 10 days because MLB slapped 3 days to the end of the season to make up for not starting the season on time. There will not be a second reset on October 3.
It’s accurate, it’s a long week, there is no reset.
**EDIT** Had some further thoughts
This is unique to the 2022 season because of the lockout and the season ending on a Wednesday. In general I would expect MLB seasons to end on a Sunday and scenarios like this to be unlikely in the future, but if a season ends on a Friday/Saturday/Sunday the previous Sunday will reset the GS cap, and if the season ends on a Monday-Thursday the previous Sunday will not reset the GS cap.
One thing this season has made clear is that it would be very helpful if the schedule page showed how many GS resets a matchup has if any, so I will be adding that notation this offseason.
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### Author:  [@shawny3696](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/shawny3696)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2024, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/head-2-head-2-week-playoff-how-many-starts/6159/7 "2024-07-08T17:11:37Z")
Hey Guys being that it’s 2 weeks for this weeks matchups in head to head do we get 20 SP’s this week for 2 weeks or is it only 10 SP’s for 2 weeks? Thanks!
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/head-2-head-2-week-playoff-how-many-starts/6159/8 "2024-07-08T17:32:03Z")
ASG matchup is one long week.
Playoff games that are explicitly set to “2 weeks” via playoff settings are the only times in which SP starts are reset on Monday.
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2025, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/head-2-head-2-week-playoff-how-many-starts/6159/9 "2025-09-15T12:42:02Z")
I am bumping this because I keep getting questions about it.