There aren’t too many things more exciting in sports than a seventh game in a playoff series. It doesn’t matter if it’s the first round or the Finals, Game 7 is always a tense affair. Heck, a best of seven playoff series in itself is a fun and engaging format for the fans.

Guess where else you can conveniently find the number seven? A typical fantasy basketball H2H matchup, which uses seven days in a week to determine a winner. So, I thought, why not take one and combine it with the other?

Well, one answer to that might be “But dude, not everyone’s roster provides the same number of games played each day, so how would it be fair to a team that might be more backloaded closer to the weekend?” My response would be: Great answer-slash-question! The solution to that is fusing all this with the popular DFS format. Instead of holding a scheduled snake draft at the start of the season and establishing a roster to manage all year, owners would pick a new roster each day, DFS-style. That way, each day of the “series” provides an even playing field for you and your opponent.

So every week, you’re competing against your opponent to see who can be the first to four wins. Swept your opponent 4-0 by Thursday night? Great, take the rest of the week off! But just wait until you get to that week when you’re in a deadlock tie 3-3 after Saturday night. Game Seven Sunday then decides it all.

Forget about trying to juggle and win five out of nine “categories” against your opponent. Forget about racking up so many fantasy points in a week that your final score ends up looking like the years of the Lelantine War. Instead, each day is scored as a separate game in the best of seven series.

The obvious hang-up, however, is the occasional week in the season where there just aren’t games being played on all seven days (first week of the season, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, etc.). This kind of thing needs a clever workaround. I have some recommendations for this:

• Move Game 7 to Monday, coexisting with Game 1 of your next matchup. So on that one day, your one lineup is competing against teams in two separate matchups. It’s not ideal, especially since it goes against the very name of this format, but it would only happen a few times per season.

• Double the value of one of the days of that week. So, for example: The start of the NBA regular season typically begins on a Tuesday. Take a look to see which day that week has the MOST NBA games on the schedule. If that happens to be on Wednesday, then make Wednesday’s H2H score worth two wins instead of just one.

• Similar to the second option, but make two separate lineups for a given day during the week, again preferably on the day with the most NBA games taking place to maximize the player pool.

How to handle these specific weeks should obviously be established prior to the start of the season. This can be figured out once the NBA regular season schedule is made available to look over. Fortunately, with the exception of the All-Star break, there’s never a week where there are only FIVE days of NBA games on the calendar.

If you like DFS, you like the excitement of a best-of-seven playoff series, and you’re used to the H2H points format, Game Seven Sundays could be an interesting new way to play with your friends this upcoming season.