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thehef · 03-04-2014, 05:30 PM

Nope. I'm pretty sure that if OOTP has scheduled a tie-breaker game, then it (or something like it - you could change the date on which it was scheduled) would need to be played before you could advance to the end of the season. I'm not exactly sure what would happen, but I don't think what you would want to do in #'s 1 and 2 would work.

As for #3, although you can alter the playoff schedule to a degree, among the things you cannot do is change who plays who. Well... you can from the perspective of making the changes to the schedule, but once OOTP determines that the first round of the playoffs is (as an example) LA vs Philly and Boston vs Texas, you cannot change those matchups. If you do, the games could be played, but OOTP would not track the winners in a "team A leads team B, 2 games to 1" format, and you would not be able to advance to the next round... At least that's my experience with monkeying around with this in OOTP12. I haven't tried it in OOTP14 but I don't think this has changed.

03-04-2014, 05:30 PM	#2
thehef Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,380	Nope. I'm pretty sure that if OOTP has scheduled a tie-breaker game, then it (or something like it - you could change the date on which it was scheduled) would need to be played before you could advance to the end of the season. I'm not exactly sure what would happen, but I don't think what you would want to do in #'s 1 and 2 would work. As for #3, although you can alter the playoff schedule to a degree, among the things you cannot do is change who plays who. Well... you can from the perspective of making the changes to the schedule, but once OOTP determines that the first round of the playoffs is (as an example) LA vs Philly and Boston vs Texas, you cannot change those matchups. If you do, the games could be played, but OOTP would not track the winners in a "team A leads team B, 2 games to 1" format, and you would not be able to advance to the next round... At least that's my experience with monkeying around with this in OOTP12. I haven't tried it in OOTP14 but I don't think this has changed.