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Originally Posted by TomVeal
Will your design accommodate the Swiss System format (used in Chess, though not in any sport that I'm aware of)?
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Not sure. I'd have to read up on that. It can handle the various Page/McIntyre formats (or at least, the ones of those that Wikipedia describes).
One of the more interesting aspects of the system IMO are the 'conditional' playoff formats. For example, you could have a two-division league where the top two clubs in each division make the playoffs. But you could put in a condition which states that if a third-place team in either division has a better record than the second-place club in the other division, then that third place club also makes the playoffs. So normally only four clubs make the playoffs but under certain conditions five teams can qualify.
There are a few real-world playoff formats I had overlooked that I would need to work into the system. For example, the Baukol playoff plan, used in the Northern League in 1963-64, is one I had missed. There's also the 'quarters' split-season plan used by the Western League in 1940. And perhaps one or two others.
There have been some interesting playoff formats used in minor league baseball over the years...
