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Originally Posted by voxpoptart
I run a fictional Australian League of two 10-team leagues where, as in the 1960s, the only "postseason" is a championship best-of-seven (the Marsupial Cup) between the team in each league with the best regular-season record. That's been fine for me -- we just won the Cup in the second year of play -- but I'm seeing a lot of the most successful managers getting fired.
* Wagga Wagga won the Eastern League pennant (97-65), then tied for second (88-74), and fired its manager.
* Melbourne finished fourth (88-74), tied for second (88-74), and fired its manager.
* Exmouth finished fifth in the Western League (83-79), then third (95-67), and fired its manager.
In your experience, is this how the game behaves even in a full-playoffs setting? Or is this a programming failure where managers are being punished for not making a "playoffs" that don't exist?
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It's pretty normal. If you're owner is demanding and wants you to get to the playoffs that will happen. Regardless of how many or how few teams make the playoffs.
Wagga Wagga sounds like it might have just tripped the "it doesn't matter what you do you're being let go button" so to speak.