*gulp* I didn't realize it was difficult when I did it, so I just did it….
This was an MLB historical. I started it in 10.3 and it broke in trying to convert it to 10.4, so I never got as far as 'what happened after the season ended'. I set it up using the League Creation Wizard, but upon the advice of friends (a LOT of people helped me with this) I didn't make any changes to the league structures until after the game was started — January 1, 1962.
I chose 1962 as my starting year, I imported full history, and I used a Gambo database for the players because it brought them in the year they made their first professional appearance, not their first major league appearance. This gave me many more players to work with and a real minor league system to manage. I disabled amateur draft and assigned first year players to their historical teams. Note that I also moved four franchises and renamed four, which may or may not have impacted my results.
In updating to 10.4 the link to the Gambo db was lost. I'm hoping to recreate the league in Version 11 after the final update (and the new Gambo/some other guy db) is released.
The playoff part should be dead easy. On January 1 of the year you want your league to start, go into the Game Setup>League Setup>Options>Playoff Options and check the box for Custom Playoffs. This will send you to a separate screen where you get to choose things like how many rounds of playoffs (three for your league or mine), how many games per round (I chose all as best-of-nine), which order the home and road games are played in (which also tells you how many travel days will be included), who plays who in the first round (1 vs 4/2 vs 3, or 1 vs 3/2 vs 4) and so on.
In your case, you want four teams from each league in, right? So you'd select for 'division leader and three wild cards' in each league.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
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