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Originally Posted by bwburke94
Double elimination's not happening, because it's nearly impossible to code double elimination with a number of teams that isn't a power of two. You're beating a dead horse.
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I've already worked out most of the particulars of a customizable playoffs plan that would allow almost unlimited playoff format creation. It would work by basically using a sort of modified and more much sophisticated post-season 'schedule' file in which you'd tell OOTP what clubs are making the playoffs, how they are matched up, and what the schedules are. It's not a particularly user-friendly method (there is a learning curve involved) but that's the price required for achieving nearly unlimited playoff format freedom.*
Alas, I came up with the plan too far along in the OOTP 16 development process and it was judged too complicated a task to code in the time available. But for OOTP 17? Who knows.,,
*And when I say nearly unlimited, I mean nearly unlimited. I purposefully designed the system to be able to recreate every conceivable real-world playoff format I could find in baseball as well as other sports. Double-elimination, round-robin, the points-based playoffs of the Mexican Pacific League and a few other leagues, just to name a few of the more unusual formats, all would be possible. You could even create playoff formats that don't exist in real life (such as conditional playoff formats where the playoff format can change from year-to-year depending on the final standings of the league).
Another benefit of this system is that it could easily be adapted to BTS and FHM. That would give all three games in OOTP Developments' stable robust and highly customizable playoffs.