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Originally Posted by TomVeal
I take it for granted that you include the Shaughnessy playoff system that the Sporting News so much despised and drove off the field many years ago.
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That can already be done in OOTP's current playoff customization screen.
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Originally Posted by TomVeal
In the Swiss System, players are seeded in the first round so that, in an eight-player tournament for example, #1 plays #5, #2 plays #6, etc. In the second round, players who won play each other, as do players who lost. In the third round, the contests are between two-game winners, one-game winners, zero-game winners, and so it goes. The system's virtue is that it produces the likely result of a round robin tournament with many fewer rounds.
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I'd have to read up and think about it more to be certain, but offhand I don't see anything preventing within the system I have mind. It might be a bit tedious though putting together the proper file for it.
One aspect of the system I have in mind is that, since it uses external files (sort of like schedule files but with more content), users can trade or share playoff format files they create, just as they can share regular season schedule files. The only parameter that really needs to match up to a league is the league size and alignment (and, depending on the playoff format created, even that may not be required).
Something else that can be done is that each subleague within a league could have its own unique playoff format. Heck, even each
division within a league could have its own unique playoff format if the user wanted.