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This definitely needs fixing - I raised a similar issue a few weeks ago after a bizarre single game play-off was scheduled in my AAA league and I didn't even notice at the time having been focused on the final week of the major league season.
In my case, there was a one-game play-off to decide a division but then a team from another division, who had finished one game behind the two teams in that tie, were gifted a play-off for the wild card which they won.
Clearly that should not have happened, and the team who lost their division in the first play-off were somewhat cheated out of the wild card.
I agree that something like making sure the correct teams make the play-offs is extremely important and 'unusual' tiebreaking situations will always happen from time to time.
I can appreciate that it is hard to envisage every possible scenario in advance but there is clearly an issue which occurs when teams which should have been eliminated end up within half a game of a team which has lost a single game play-off.
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