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Originally Posted by David Watts
That Shaughnessy thing is my third option, but no way am I having the 1st place team face the 3rd place team while the 2nd place team faces the 4th.
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Speaking of the Shaughnessy format, pretty sure it encompasses all possibilities:
A) 1 vs 2, 3 vs 4
B) 1 vs 3, 2 vs 4
C) 1 vs 4, 2 vs 3
I've never understood the logic behind formats A and B. I can certainly see how - especially "back in the day" where geography might make it more logical for, say, #1 Los Angeles vs #2 Hollywood, while #3 San Francisco plays #4 Sacramento.
In bygone eras, all playoff series' were to be played without off days except when travel was necessary or Sunday baseball was prohibited (primarily an east coast thing). So even if the expense of travel wasn't a concern, using the example above, the idea that there would be no off days in that schedule (option A), whereas with option C there would be, could make sense...
But otherwise, it just seems nutty... That said, I think I may have read an old article from the pre-WWII era where the logic for option A is to be sure that one of the top teams makes the title series. But option B still completely baffles me...
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Originally Posted by David Watts
I've never tried split season with OOTP, how does it work. What if the same team wins both halves? Does the game designate the 1st half champion in some way?
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Here are the steps, etc.:
1. Set the number of games in OOTP (League Settings > Options, under Schedule Settings) to match the number of games in the schedule to be imported.*
2. Make sure the balanced/unbalanced setting matches the indicator in the schedule to be imported.*
3. Import schedule
4. Under Schedule Settings, check the box to Enable Split Season Format (I think this step can be done earlier; might not matter exactly when)
*otherwise you'll get an error message when you attempt to import the schedule
The above assumes you are importing a schedule (in my case, a historical schedule). I assume you can skip this step and with whatever schedule is defaulted, OOTP will split the schedule (see the first item below).
Some notes...
- If the imported schedule is 201 games, OOTP split the season at 100 games. So it appears that for determining where to split the season, OOTP divides the total number of games in half, and in the case where the total number of games is an odd number, it rounds down. (If you have a historical schedule that, say, split a 200-game season at 105 games, I don't think there's any way to do this in OOTP; it will split the season at 100 games... I could be wrong and just haven't figured this out yet...)
- Standings: Once you start the 2nd half of the split-season, on the Standings panel the standings will continue to reflect the
cumulative standings, but this can be changed via the dropdown in the vicinity of the top left of the panel, where you can choose Overall, First Half, or Second Half standings. Beneath the main standings the team & record of the 1st half winner will be shown, and beneath that the team & record of the 2nd half leader. In addition: Overall, 1st half, and 2nd half records/standings can be found on the Expanded Standings panel, although the teams are locked-listed in the order of the first half standings.
- Come playoff time OOTP will know to match the first half winner vs second half winner.
- Home field advantage goes to the half-winner with the best record, assuming default settings. Pretty sure that you can edit this, though, based upon how you set the number of games & home-away in your series.
- In the case of the same team winning both halves, it will match the overall 1st place team against the overall 2nd place team.
- The Custom Playoff option is disabled when Split Season is enabled. So, for example, if you wanted to have something whacky like having the top two finishers in the first half qualifying, along with the top two finishers for the 2nd half, you can't do that. At least not that I can figure out (not that I've really
tried to figure it out).