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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
Can you post up your standings as they were after 162 games? (Screenshot or type out the W-L and Pct.) Something sounds strange there.
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Standing for the subleague in question after 162 games were:
Central Division
Mansfield 100-62 .617
Shrewsbury 85-77 .525
Bedford 81-81 .500
Nuneaton 75-87 .463
Lincoln 68-94 .420
Western Division
Bath 108-54 .667
Weston-super-Mare 84-78 .519
Torbay 80-82 .494
Worcester 60-102 .370
Eastern Division
Lowestoft 86-76 .531
Crawley 86-76 .531
Basingstoke 79-83 .488
Maidstone 69-93 .426
Harlow 69-93 .426
Lowestoft beat Crawley in a one-game playoff to claim the Eastern Division title, moving to 87-76 (.534) and leaving Crawley at 86-77 (.528). I would have expected that to be the end of the regular season but the next day there was a play-off for the wildcard between Crawley (86-77) and Shrewsbury (85-77), which Shrewsbury won. I'm very glad that Weston-super-Mare lost on the final day or they would have been involved at 85-77 as well!
I'm not too worried about it as it was only my AAA league (and Shrewsbury got swept in the first round of the play-offs anyway) but it would be nice to know why it happened and how I might prevent it should it ever happen again.
I can quite understand the need for the playoff in the linked example - certainly makes sense not to hand a team a place in the postseason just because there was a tie elsewhere.
This all had nothing on the nightmare scenario that my major league would have faced had results on the final day gone differently - the possibility of ties in two divisions both at 101-67 and another team in a third division also tied at 101-67 for the last wildcard! Thankfully that didn't come about!