Playoffs properly seeded?

crackpott · 04-15-2004, 08:46 PM

In OOTP5, the best team in the league would play the worst in the playoffs, regardless of division. In real life though, two teams from the same division cannot meet in the first round. Has this been fixed?

04-15-2004, 08:50 PM

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Originally posted by crackpott
In OOTP5, the best team in the league would play the worst in the playoffs, regardless of division. In real life though, two teams from the same division cannot meet in the first round. Has this been fixed?

I sure hope so.

Jase

Karros270 · 04-15-2004, 08:57 PM

This always bugged me, especially when I got knocked out by a team I wasn't even supposed to be playing.

crackpott · 04-15-2004, 09:33 PM

bingo. I always forget about it until the playoffs roll around.

treedom · 04-15-2004, 09:38 PM

i saw steve say somewhere that there were no changes to the playoffs at all...

crackpott · 04-15-2004, 09:44 PM

bloody hell... Markus... first patch?

rem · 04-15-2004, 10:13 PM

Honestly, you can agrue that OOTP is seeded correct and MLB incorrect.

Ktulu · 04-15-2004, 10:24 PM

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Honestly, you can agrue that OOTP is seeded correct and MLB in correct.

I actually prefer the way OOTP does it. Perhaps some customization of this area is in order

Similiar to the seeds, I hate how MLB awards home field in the world series., it should go to the team with the most wins.

Jonzard · 04-15-2004, 10:40 PM

A customization option would be nice AND easy

Le Grande Orange · 04-15-2004, 10:52 PM

It gets more complicated when one realizes that prior to 1998 the home field for the rounds was given to specific divisions rather than the team with the better record. The result of this was to further muddy the waters in terms of who played who.

As Jonzard said, customization is the solution here. I proposed last year a simple drap-and-drop system on the playoff tree display page to set whatever matchups you wanted if you didn't like the default ones.

04-15-2004, 10:57 PM

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Originally posted by remangiii
Honestly, you can agrue that OOTP is seeded correct and MLB incorrect.

I agree totally that the method OOTP uses makes far more sense. However, for those of us that play MLB franchises and such, it'd be nice to have that bit of realism in there.

I think being able to pick the playoff match ups would be the easiest route. Just throw who you want in the spot you want them and go.

Solves any problem anyone could have with it.

Jase

rem · 04-15-2004, 11:10 PM

They should take it a step further and let you select which teams you want in the playoffs and where.

04-15-2004, 08:46 PM	#1
crackpott Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto Posts: 2,961	Playoffs properly seeded? In OOTP5, the best team in the league would play the worst in the playoffs, regardless of division. In real life though, two teams from the same division cannot meet in the first round. Has this been fixed? __________________ Abandoned Planet - Check it out. The photos don't suck anymore.

04-15-2004, 08:57 PM	#3
Karros270 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 2,392	This always bugged me, especially when I got knocked out by a team I wasn't even supposed to be playing. __________________ now everybody's praying...don't prey on me

04-15-2004, 09:33 PM	#4
crackpott Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto Posts: 2,961	bingo. I always forget about it until the playoffs roll around. __________________ Abandoned Planet - Check it out. The photos don't suck anymore.

04-15-2004, 09:38 PM	#5
treedom Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2002 Location: Transylvania Posts: 2,900	i saw steve say somewhere that there were no changes to the playoffs at all... __________________ A rake and a roustabout.

04-15-2004, 09:44 PM	#6
crackpott Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto Posts: 2,961	bloody hell... Markus... first patch? __________________ Abandoned Planet - Check it out. The photos don't suck anymore.

04-15-2004, 10:13 PM	#7
rem Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: College Park, Md. Posts: 5,024	Honestly, you can agrue that OOTP is seeded correct and MLB incorrect. __________________ OTBA: Washington Filibusters CLBR: Minnesota Twins 2005 Winner of LL's Pick the Loser Contest! - 15-0 Last edited by rem; 04-15-2004 at 10:34 PM.

04-15-2004, 10:40 PM	#9
Jonzard Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,647	A customization option would be nice AND easy __________________ For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very precisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping. — Sir Peter B. Medawar FTB

04-15-2004, 10:52 PM	#10
Le Grande Orange Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Up There Posts: 15,644	It gets more complicated when one realizes that prior to 1998 the home field for the rounds was given to specific divisions rather than the team with the better record. The result of this was to further muddy the waters in terms of who played who. As Jonzard said, customization is the solution here. I proposed last year a simple drap-and-drop system on the playoff tree display page to set whatever matchups you wanted if you didn't like the default ones.

04-15-2004, 11:10 PM	#12
rem Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: College Park, Md. Posts: 5,024	They should take it a step further and let you select which teams you want in the playoffs and where. __________________ OTBA: Washington Filibusters CLBR: Minnesota Twins 2005 Winner of LL's Pick the Loser Contest! - 15-0