Thread: Tie-breakers
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Old 01-25-2013, 01:26 AM   #2
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Tie-breaking has been a long-standing concern. With MLB adding the second wild card qualifier in each league, it becomes even more important since now there are some unusual tie situations possible (e.g. three teams tied for two playoff spots). Last year during beta I posted up a rather detailed thread outlining the good and bad aspects of the game's tie-breaking, along with suggestions as to how certain tie scenarios should be resolved. In the end nothing came of it.

Don't know why that was. Maybe it was official disinterest, maybe it was because I didn't present the issue in the right manner, maybe it was deemed a low priority than other issues, maybe time ran out, maybe it was something else...

It'd sure be nice to see it get the polish it deserves. But I expect it has a poor cost/benefit ratio, I bet it'd take a lot of coding effort to do right for something which otherwise might be considered a 'little' detail.

Last edited by Le Grande Orange; 01-25-2013 at 01:35 AM. Reason: Trying to reduce the level of crankiness in the phrasing
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