College Baseball Playoffs?

[Kobeck]

Originally Posted by tomwolf2008

Probably because those things are not as simple as you think

Oh I know that, but still it looks like it would maybe a complexity of like 3 on a 1-10 scale.

Clearly there is way more than I could possibly know though.

[Cryomaniac]

Originally Posted by olivertheorem

This is prefaced with the standard "I am not a programmer", but I don't think it would be that difficult to implement double-elimination. Right now, playoff series are set up as "best of X", which can also be interpreted as "lose four and you're done" (in a 7-game series). As an alternative, it could be set up as a standard four-team bracket with "lose two and you're done."

Just spitballing.

I'm an unemployed programmer, and you might be right if it was being built from scratch. The problem is whether how the database handles playoff games allows that, and if not, how much effort it would be to change it (potentially quite a lot).

[The Wolf]

Move to America. If you can write code and speak English people would be delighted to hire you.

[Cryomaniac]

Originally Posted by The Wolf

Move to America. If you can write code and speak English people would be delighted to hire you.

If I had the cash to move, I would.

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by Cryomaniac

I'm an unemployed programmer, and you might be right if it was being built from scratch. The problem is whether how the database handles playoff games allows that, and if not, how much effort it would be to change it (potentially quite a lot).

The double-elimination format follows a standard and predictable sequence of games. It's really not any more complicated than a regular best-of series schedule in that regard. If OOTP can handle byes, then there wouldn't seem to be any inherent restriction preventing double-elimination other than the interest in adding them.

Playoff qualifiers determined by division rather than overall record, and showing separate division and overall records, would seem more an issue, in visual presentation if nothing else since game screens might well have to be redesigned to some extent to show both types of win-loss records.

[The Wolf]

Cry, I wish you could move. Every business I know is crying for guys like you.

They can find lots of people who can write code, and tons who can speak fluent English, but not enough people who can do both.