Post Season Round Robin

David Watts · 07-10-2026, 10:11 AM

Have any of you tried using the round robin format for your post season?

Wonder how it works.

I see that you can choose the number of games. I assume if I choose 3 games, the teams in my post season will all play each other 3 times. Is each 3 game series played at one teams park?. Are there off days, or are the series played in consecutive days? If so, are there off days between each series?

At the end of the round robin, how are ties dealt with.

Matt Arnold · 07-10-2026, 10:45 AM

The number of games for each team against others aren't in series', they will be spaced out. So if you have a 4 team pool, as a triple-round-robin, each team gets 9 games. You might get a schedule like Team A plays: BCDCDBBCD (I think we try to match so you play one against everyone at a time, but we might not always be that strict). Against everyone, you will have 1 or 2 home games, so in the end some teams in the pool have 4 home games, some have 5.
Whether you have off-days is controlled by the other variable, the length of the series. If you set it to 9, then there'd be no days off. Otherwise we'd schedule them in essentially equally spaced.

Ties are broken basically by wins, then head to head, then run diff in head to head games, then their result in the last game against each other team, then series run differential. That's basically a slight mix of the various WBC tiebreaker rules over the years.

David Watts · 07-10-2026, 11:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt Arnold

The number of games for each team against others aren't in series', they will be spaced out. So if you have a 4 team pool, as a triple-round-robin, each team gets 9 games. You might get a schedule like Team A plays: BCDCDBBCD (I think we try to match so you play one against everyone at a time, but we might not always be that strict). Against everyone, you will have 1 or 2 home games, so in the end some teams in the pool have 4 home games, some have 5.
Whether you have off-days is controlled by the other variable, the length of the series. If you set it to 9, then there'd be no days off. Otherwise we'd schedule them in essentially equally spaced.

Ties are broken basically by wins, then head to head, then run diff in head to head games, then their result in the last game against each other team, then series run differential. That's basically a slight mix of the various WBC tiebreaker rules over the years.

Thank you.

jksander · 07-11-2026, 08:27 PM

CBLCardinals' college mod uses this for part of his leadup to the College World Series and it works really nicely.

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David Watts Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Looking for a place called Leehofooks Posts: 10,216 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	Post Season Round Robin Have any of you tried using the round robin format for your post season? Wonder how it works. I see that you can choose the number of games. I assume if I choose 3 games, the teams in my post season will all play each other 3 times. Is each 3 game series played at one teams park?. Are there off days, or are the series played in consecutive days? If so, are there off days between each series? At the end of the round robin, how are ties dealt with.

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Matt Arnold OOTP Developer Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Here and there Posts: 16,326	The number of games for each team against others aren't in series', they will be spaced out. So if you have a 4 team pool, as a triple-round-robin, each team gets 9 games. You might get a schedule like Team A plays: BCDCDBBCD (I think we try to match so you play one against everyone at a time, but we might not always be that strict). Against everyone, you will have 1 or 2 home games, so in the end some teams in the pool have 4 home games, some have 5. Whether you have off-days is controlled by the other variable, the length of the series. If you set it to 9, then there'd be no days off. Otherwise we'd schedule them in essentially equally spaced. Ties are broken basically by wins, then head to head, then run diff in head to head games, then their result in the last game against each other team, then series run differential. That's basically a slight mix of the various WBC tiebreaker rules over the years.