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Originally Posted by DreamTeams
OOTP won't automatically schedule three way tie breakers. You'd have to set it up yourself. It works great...
A 3-way tie can be resolved in the following round-robin fashion...
A team has to lose twice before being eliminated from the tiebreaker. The tiebreaker is essentially divided into two parts. In the first part, each team plays 1 game against each of the two other teams in the tiebreaker, on consecutive days. The teams are designated as A, B, and C by lot, and then play the following schedule:
Day 1: B at A
Day 2: C at B
Day 3: A at C
If at this point any of the teams has lost twice, it is eliminated.
The remaining two teams then play again on Day 4, with the site determined by coin toss. If this game does not result in a team losing its second game, the teams play one final time on Day 5, with the visiting team from Day 4 being the home team. After this game one of the teams would have definitely lost twice and is eliminated. The other team has then won the tiebreaker.
If however none of the teams has lost twice (i.e. they all have 1-1 records) then the next step is:
Day 4: A at B -or- B at C -or- C at A
The exact matchup to be played, from the above possibilities, is determined by lot. The loser of the game would have suffered its second loss and is eliminated. On Day 5, the winner of the game from Day 4 then hosts the team which was idle on Day 4. The winner of the Day 5 game wins the tiebreaker, while the loser would have suffered its second loss and is eliminated.
So, in summary it means that a 3-way tie will result in a total of either 4 or 5 tiebreaking games being played, taking either 4 or 5 days (and consequently delaying the Championship Series or post season playoffs by that many days).
REMINDER: When you schedule your tie breaker games be sure to schedule them as regular season games as they will count toward the regular season record.
REMINDER 2: Because these are scheduled as regular season games remember to delete them from your following season's generated schedule.
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What if you get the message the playoffs already started? Can you still schedule a regular season game if a playoff game hasn't been played but the playoff schedule is out?
Also looked all night for the way OOTP handles tiebreakers and couldn't find anything. Anyone happen to know how they decide who goes to the 2 team playoff and who gets left out?