[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

Here's a screenshot of the playoffs dialog...

Hey, I recognize the look of that.

One small suggestion though: you really ought to put connecting lines to better display the playoff tree. It's a bit hard to distinguish it without them.

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

I'd like to thank LGO, who created an awesome document regarding a 100% flexible playoff system. The one in OOTP 9 does only a fraction of what he suggested, but it is a start. Getting the whole thing done will probably take years

Heh, maybe not. It looks like you've got the basics in. From there it's (hopefully) mostly adding in the specialty playoff options and the screens to support them.

Originally Posted by theasfl

This should fix the problem with the top two seeds facing off in the second round of any playoff system with 8 teams from one league or sub-league, no?

It should, based on what I see and what I originally proposed.

You can change how the seeds match up. So you could do the traditional #1 vs. #8, #2 vs. #7, #3 vs. #6, and #4 vs. #5, or you could do something different like #1 vs. #5, #2 vs. #6, #3 vs. #7, and #4 vs. #8, or pretty much any other combination.

Originally Posted by RailSplitter

How about double elimination?

I put 4- and 8-team double elimination playoffs in my proposal, but I'm guessing time and/or coding contraints have left it out for this year (though perhaps I'm wrong). That isn't necessarily bad, because it means I can add more specialty playoff scenarios to an improved proposal for OOTP 10 (and I've already got a good list of those).

Originally Posted by Cryomaniac

Could we have a different number of divisions in each sub-league, as long as the number of teams in the playoffs is a power of 2?

I put that into my proposal, but I don't know if Markus was able to code that in or not.


For those wondering, the way I approached the proposal was to find ways to recreate the real-world playoff scenarios that have existed in the major and minor leagues as well as the NBA, NHL, and NFL. So the system I put together allowed the mimicking of almost every playoff format those leagues have used. I didn't get too far into specialty playoff scenarios (like that used in the KBO for example), but that's an area I intend to emphasize in an OOTP 10 customizable playoffs proposal.