Petition to Get Customizable Playoffs into OOTP12

[oman19]

Originally Posted by bailey

The Tigers stunk pretty bad in 2006 after sweeping Oakland and waiting around for the NL series winner.

Don't remind me of the E1 World Series. I had tickets to Game 7 of that series that didn't get to be used :-(

[Neags23]

Originally Posted by bailey

The Tigers stunk pretty bad in 2006 after sweeping Oakland and waiting around for the NL series winner.

I meant how much in-game OOTP rust the players would have after a week layoff.

Even in real life, though, that's somewhat anecdotal. The Tigers might have just not played well. It's possible it had nothing to do with the time off.

If we had ultimate playoff customization, maybe you could get around the layoff for a first round bye by scheduling doubleheaders for round 1. In a best of 5, wrap it up in three days: doubleheader, single game, doubleheader. I would think most managers would be okay with 3 days off to heal up players and rest their pitching staff. Yes, if a team won in 5, they'd be a little bit screwed for the next series.

And yes, I know this would never happen in real life (MLB, anyway), but that's the beauty of OOTP.

[oman19]

Originally Posted by Neags23

I meant how much in-game OOTP rust the players would have after a week layoff.

Even in real life, though, that's somewhat anecdotal. The Tigers might have just not played well. It's possible it had nothing to do with the time off.

If we had ultimate playoff customization, maybe you could get around the layoff for a first round bye by scheduling doubleheaders for round 1. In a best of 5, wrap it up in three days: doubleheader, single game, doubleheader. I would think most managers would be okay with 3 days off to heal up players and rest their pitching staff. Yes, if a team won in 5, they'd be a little bit screwed for the next series.

And yes, I know this would never happen in real life (MLB, anyway), but that's the beauty of OOTP.

IRL long periods of time off really are a huge disadvantage to teams. There is a reason why teams send players on rehab assignments to get their timing back.

Like you said I'm sure you could figure it out someway though wiht playoff customization.

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by Neags23

I'm not sure how much rust there would be after only a week, though.

Consider how players and managers were complaining about the four extra days added to the post-season schedule back in 2007 were upsetting the "play almost every day" nature of the sport.

And that was only a few extra days spread over a four week period.

(That said, a five day layoff has happened before in MLB. Specifically, in 1973 and 1975-6 there was a break of five days between the end of the regular season and the start of each league's LCS. But that break applied equally to all four post-season teams.)

[Mr. Capo]

Speaking of layoffs, how about the 1989 "earthquake" series? A gap of something like 12 days between games 2 and 3.

But under the Costas playoff plan, you could play straight through without days off: begin round 1 the day after the close of the season, and not take a day off between round 1 and the LCS. That would minimize the down time for the team with the bye, and (admittedly) put extra pressure on the winner of round 1. Maybe those two factors even out?

OK, not perfection in the real world, but surely no problem in OOTP. And for me, preferable over wild cards in either world. I don't like wild cards in baseball.

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by Mr. Capo

Speaking of layoffs, how about the 1989 "earthquake" series? A gap of something like 12 days between games 2 and 3.

But, again, that applied to both clubs equally.

Originally Posted by Mr. Capo

But under the Costas playoff plan, you could play straight through without days off: begin round 1 the day after the close of the season, and not take a day off between round 1 and the LCS.

That's still be at least three days off for the bye club assuming a best-of-5 series, or four days off for a best-of-7 series. And if any tiebreaking playoff games are needed, that adds at least one more day to the break for the bye club.

[Mr. Capo]

For me, that still beats wild cards. Wild cards are so... football.

[Neags23]

Just wanted to keep this thread fresh in everyone's mind.

That is all.