[chucksabr]

I know the game doesn't handle this properly, so I can put in an OOTP 15 request (if someone hasn't already), but I am wondering how to handle this manually in the meatime.

I'm dry-running a table league in which the top six spots qualify for the playoffs. The first two spots get a bye, and the next four play a first round, #3 vs. #6, and #4 vs. #5. It goes on from there.

The regular season ended with two teams, Team W and Team L, tied for 2nd, so I had them play a one-game tiebreaker, which Team W ("Winner") won.

However, when the playoffs started, Team L ("Loser") got the bye, I assume based on some internal tiebreaker criterion, and Winner got beat in the first round by the #6 seed. Loser ended up exploiting this serendipitous mistake to play its way into the finals.

Obviously, this should not have happened based on the tiebreaker result, and the season has played itself out. But if this kind of tie happens in the future and I play a tiebreaker, how can I have arrange it so the right thing happens in this case? Could I have gone in after the tiebreaker game and manually changed the playoff structure so that Loser played the first round instead of Winner? If I can make that, will the game get the message and automatically assume that Winner should get the bye instead of Loser, even though it originally scheduled Loser with the bye even before the tiebreaker?