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Originally Posted by BaseballMan
I just had another very weird ending to the regular season of 1931.
On sep 27th the cardinals were 93-61 and the giants were 91-61.
The game scheduled a playoff game in which the giants won.
That put the cardinals at 93-62 and the giants at 92-61.
The game sent the cardinals to the world series.
What was the point of the game having a playoff game?
It had no impact on the standings.
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Originally Posted by joefromchicago
That's probably because the Giants didn't play 154 games. They finished two games back with two games unplayed, so the AI must have thought that the only way to resolve the issue was to play a tie-breaker, since the Giants could have tied for the league lead if they had won those two rain-outs.
Not sure how to fix that, as you were probably using the as-played schedules, and those don't automatically schedule make-up games. In real life the Giants didn't have to play out those cancelled games because they finished 13 games behind the Cardinals.
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There's definitely a mistake somewhere.
In real life, the Cardinals played 154 games in the 1931 season, finishing 101-53-0, while the Giants played 153 games, finishing 87-65-1. The tie game can't be recreated in OOTP, so it was stricken from the as played schedule file, leaving the Giants with 152 games played to a decision.
Even so, based on the final records of your example, the Giants were one game behind, as well as having a lower winning percentage than the Cardinals. So there is NO reason at all for there to be a tie-breaking playoff game. (That's leaving aside the fact that a best-of-three series would have been used at that time, not a single game.)
Log that as a bug. OOTP, for historical leagues using as played schedules, should NOT be scheduling any tie-breaking playoff games unless there are teams, at the conclusion of the schedule, tied in winning percentage for a post-season berth. Differing numbers of games played is irrelevant as far as historical leagues using as played schedules is concerned.