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Old 02-21-2013, 09:16 AM   #42
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Originally Posted by olivertheorem View Post
This is prefaced with the standard "I am not a programmer", but I don't think it would be that difficult to implement double-elimination. Right now, playoff series are set up as "best of X", which can also be interpreted as "lose four and you're done" (in a 7-game series). As an alternative, it could be set up as a standard four-team bracket with "lose two and you're done."

Just spitballing.
I'm an unemployed programmer, and you might be right if it was being built from scratch. The problem is whether how the database handles playoff games allows that, and if not, how much effort it would be to change it (potentially quite a lot).
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