FA Style Cup Tournament during season

Iamnobody · 05-25-2018, 11:42 PM

I'm trying to figure out how to do a FA style cup during the season. I want to do it as a three-game series where the winner moves on. I'm not sure how to set it up during the season and have teams randomly selected to place either other with byes if needed.

Is there a tutorial or somewhere where I can get help with this?

daves · 05-26-2018, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Iamnobody

I'm trying to figure out how to do a FA style cup during the season. I want to do it as a three-game series where the winner moves on. I'm not sure how to set it up during the season and have teams randomly selected to place either other with byes if needed.

Is there a tutorial or somewhere where I can get help with this?

There has been a few questions regarding tournaments. It is not recommended run a tournament in the middle as players will be utilized during tournament and regular season will tire out easily and rotations will be off. I am not sure if a FA style is possible as it is more about countries or teams.

But a draft style tournament sounds like a great idea.

TheMaus2 · 05-27-2018, 08:28 PM

FA means football association, parent of the English Premier League

Lionsault · 05-29-2018, 01:45 PM

I don't think a "draw" feature is present in the game. You'd have to run a draw using a random number generator or something similar outside the game and apply it yourself - you can use the "Edit Playoff Matchups" for each round to adjust matchups and simulate a draw.

Set # of regular season games to 0 so the game doesn't try to set up any kind of regular season / group stage. You can also include byes, but you have to include teams that won't actually play for it to work correctly (the game won't let you just schedule a bye for a team initially). Here's a really simple example of what you can do with tournaments. As you can see, San Antonio and Philadelphia received byes in the first round. Then Brooklyn drew Dallas and San Antonio and Philadelphia drew each other in the second round. I had to have 8 teams in the tournament (while only including 6 in the actual bracket) for the byes to work correctly - I would test this outside the main save you plan to use it in before implementing as if you get the math wrong on # of byes in each round the game will not run the tournament properly.

As for scheduling it concurrently during the season, I haven't done the legwork on that but I assume all you would need to do is tinker with your schedule files so that no teams are scheduled to play league games while the tournament is going on.

05-25-2018, 11:42 PM	#1
Iamnobody Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 44	FA Style Cup Tournament during season I'm trying to figure out how to do a FA style cup during the season. I want to do it as a three-game series where the winner moves on. I'm not sure how to set it up during the season and have teams randomly selected to place either other with byes if needed. Is there a tutorial or somewhere where I can get help with this?

05-27-2018, 08:28 PM	#3
TheMaus2 All Star Starter Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: The OOTP Forums. Always. Posts: 1,952	FA means football association, parent of the English Premier League __________________ I write a monthly newsletter on the Food Baseball Association. I also listen to music no one's ever heard of in hopes of looking cool and alternative.

05-29-2018, 01:45 PM	#4
Lionsault Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 21	I don't think a "draw" feature is present in the game. You'd have to run a draw using a random number generator or something similar outside the game and apply it yourself - you can use the "Edit Playoff Matchups" for each round to adjust matchups and simulate a draw. Set # of regular season games to 0 so the game doesn't try to set up any kind of regular season / group stage. You can also include byes, but you have to include teams that won't actually play for it to work correctly (the game won't let you just schedule a bye for a team initially). Here's a really simple example of what you can do with tournaments. As you can see, San Antonio and Philadelphia received byes in the first round. Then Brooklyn drew Dallas and San Antonio and Philadelphia drew each other in the second round. I had to have 8 teams in the tournament (while only including 6 in the actual bracket) for the byes to work correctly - I would test this outside the main save you plan to use it in before implementing as if you get the math wrong on # of byes in each round the game will not run the tournament properly. As for scheduling it concurrently during the season, I haven't done the legwork on that but I assume all you would need to do is tinker with your schedule files so that no teams are scheduled to play league games while the tournament is going on. Last edited by Lionsault; 05-29-2018 at 01:48 PM.