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Originally Posted by Padreman
Speaking of games to remember my league has been playing 82 seasons now and no teams have ever played the one game playoff due to ending the season tied. Have you guys ever had a one game playoff ever?
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I had a quick start 2013 game that I recently quit that I ran for 6 years, and 4 out of the 6 there was a one game playoff, and in 2015 a TWO-GAME playoff.. 3 of the 1-Gamers were Wild-card tiebreakers (all in the NL, and all involving the Cubs! - who of course lost all 3), the other 1-gamer was the AL Central in 2016 (I think) between the White Sox and Detroit (CWS won).. but in 2015, the top two teams in the NL West had 94-68 records (SF and ARI), and the top Wilcard was 2nd place in the NL Central (St. Louis) with a 99-63 record (the Cubs won the division with a 100-62 record.. and yes, they lost in the 1st round)... the Second wildcard, however had 94 wins (NL East 2nd place Atlanta). San Francisco won the NL W playoff, leaving Arizona with a 94-69 record.
I guess OOTP (or maybe MLB?) doesn't go by winning percentage when figuring the Wild Card, because no sooner I advanced from the game screen of the NL West tiebreaker, and I'm on another screen with a Arizona playing Atlanta for the 2nd wild card spot. Atlanta won, and after an off-day the Wild Card games went.
After all of that, I was kinda surprised that 2017 DIDN'T have a tie-breaker. Can't say I've had a ton of them in other games over the past 7 years, but can't really say they've been that rare, as I can remember quite a few in various historical games I've ran. One thing though... almost all of those I'd had previously were ties atop the American League, usually involving the Yankees, the Indians, the Athletics and the Tigers in various historical games... but in this game nearly all the playoffs involved National league teams
