No playoff league won't have a one-game playoff for first

Jamee999 · 08-11-2009, 11:39 AM

Well I just set up a league with one division, no playoffs, with the idea that at the end of the season, the team with the most wins gets the pennant.

So I play through the season, and come 10pm on the final day of the season, what do you know, the Boston Adams and the Queens Baseball Club are tied. So I click on to the next day...no one game playoff...and the same for the next three days, and eventually it goes into the offseason. Boston won.

Shouldn't the game have a one-game-playoff to decide who wins the league?!?!

Le Grande Orange · 08-11-2009, 02:39 PM

It should, yes, but when playoffs are turned off, it apparently turns off everything.

You can manually manage the situation. You can schedule in the schedule editor your own tiebreaking playoff game. Just be sure to delete it from the schedule before the start of your next season.

jg2977 · 08-11-2009, 04:53 PM

I've noticed that when teams finish in a tie, the team that's first in alphabetical order always gets the benefit of the doubt.

For example, if New York and Boston tied for first, Boston would win the title. But if New York and Philadelphia tied for first, New York would be league champions.

To get around this problem, I use the schedule editor to create a one-game playoff. (You could even do best-of-three if you want). Make sure that you make it a regular season game. I look at the head-to-head matchups, and whoever had the better record between the two teams gets home advantage. If they were tied in the head-to-head matchups, I just flip a coin.

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Jamee999 Major Leagues Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 338 Thanked 23x in 17 posts	No playoff league won't have a one-game playoff for first Well I just set up a league with one division, no playoffs, with the idea that at the end of the season, the team with the most wins gets the pennant. So I play through the season, and come 10pm on the final day of the season, what do you know, the Boston Adams and the Queens Baseball Club are tied. So I click on to the next day...no one game playoff...and the same for the next three days, and eventually it goes into the offseason. Boston won. Shouldn't the game have a one-game-playoff to decide who wins the league?!?! __________________ The Captain: Jason Barnes

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Le Grande Orange Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Scheduleslovakia Posts: 9,849 Thanked 1,010x in 586 posts	It should, yes, but when playoffs are turned off, it apparently turns off everything. You can manually manage the situation. You can schedule in the schedule editor your own tiebreaking playoff game. Just be sure to delete it from the schedule before the start of your next season. __________________ . "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our abilities and skills, because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win." .

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08-11-2009, 04:53 PM	#3 (permalink)
jg2977 All Star Starter Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 1,976 Thanked 3x in 3 posts	I've noticed that when teams finish in a tie, the team that's first in alphabetical order always gets the benefit of the doubt. For example, if New York and Boston tied for first, Boston would win the title. But if New York and Philadelphia tied for first, New York would be league champions. To get around this problem, I use the schedule editor to create a one-game playoff. (You could even do best-of-three if you want). Make sure that you make it a regular season game. I look at the head-to-head matchups, and whoever had the better record between the two teams gets home advantage. If they were tied in the head-to-head matchups, I just flip a coin.