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Originally Posted by Matt Arnold
It's a little weird. All that I can think of how it could get that way is that we first sort teams by their "regular" standings, ignoring tiebreaker games, first, so if your "games per team" number is way off, then that can screw things up. So if you had that set to, say, 132, then internally the first sort is the standings as of game 132 for each team, and any games after that are only included as "tiebreakers".
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Yeah, that might have something to do with it.
Looking more closely, it's the 1897 NL season. The original schedule that year called for 132 games. But based on the games played from the standings shown in the first post, the as played schedule BaseballMan used included the tie games, which means every club in his recreation is playing more games than they should based on the original real-life schedule. (If no games ended in a tie that season, then all real-life clubs would have finished with 132 games played. But every NL club in 1897 had tie games, ranging from one for Cleveland to seven for the New York Giants, with the number of games played by clubs ranging from 132 to 138.)
Now, that said, OOTP should only order the standings by winning percentage, regardless of games played schedule settings.
Unless, that is, other ordering options, such as games behind or wins, get added as options in a future version.
