Fix Tie-Breakers

BKL · 02-11-2014, 08:23 PM

I'm hoping OOTP15 will address and fix tie-breakers. I have been playing out all my games for the last 10 years in OOTP. One of the most frustrating things is when you play out an entire season, there are exciting close season playoff races, which may result in a tie and an exciting tie-breaker game(s) and then OOTP messes up the tie-breakers. This happens if more than two teams are tied for multiple spots.

In the past sesons, I ended up with three teams tied for two spots - division title and then wild-card. OOTP messed up the tie-breaker procedures and actually allowed an eliminated team back in the playoffs!! Since I backup I was able to re-run scenarios and in almost each case OOTP wanted to throw the eliminated team back in!

Here's the point - this should be an area that is fixed since one of the major points of the season is to find out which team should ligitimately be in the playoffs.

Ideally, this would be something we could customize. My personal suggestion is to just have the user be able to click on a drop down "Seed Teams and End Season" You would then be given the ability, if desired, to indicate what teams are seeded where. You can manaully play extra games before selecting this to determine your own tie-breakers. But at least the winners would be properly seeded. This would be a similar concept to how the All Star Players are determined, where you can manually select or just let the computer do it past a certain date. Why not have the same for seeding?

This seems like an important area. I have seen numerous posts indicating an issue with tie-breakers. Not sure why this wouldn't be a priority.

Who wants to play a season only to have the wrong team make the playoffs???

BKL · 02-14-2014, 11:06 PM

Hopefully this will get fixed.

02-11-2014, 08:23 PM	#1
BKL All Star Reserve Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 921	Fix Tie-Breakers I'm hoping OOTP15 will address and fix tie-breakers. I have been playing out all my games for the last 10 years in OOTP. One of the most frustrating things is when you play out an entire season, there are exciting close season playoff races, which may result in a tie and an exciting tie-breaker game(s) and then OOTP messes up the tie-breakers. This happens if more than two teams are tied for multiple spots. In the past sesons, I ended up with three teams tied for two spots - division title and then wild-card. OOTP messed up the tie-breaker procedures and actually allowed an eliminated team back in the playoffs!! Since I backup I was able to re-run scenarios and in almost each case OOTP wanted to throw the eliminated team back in! Here's the point - this should be an area that is fixed since one of the major points of the season is to find out which team should ligitimately be in the playoffs. Ideally, this would be something we could customize. My personal suggestion is to just have the user be able to click on a drop down "Seed Teams and End Season" You would then be given the ability, if desired, to indicate what teams are seeded where. You can manaully play extra games before selecting this to determine your own tie-breakers. But at least the winners would be properly seeded. This would be a similar concept to how the All Star Players are determined, where you can manually select or just let the computer do it past a certain date. Why not have the same for seeding? This seems like an important area. I have seen numerous posts indicating an issue with tie-breakers. Not sure why this wouldn't be a priority. Who wants to play a season only to have the wrong team make the playoffs???

02-14-2014, 11:06 PM	#2
BKL All Star Reserve Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 921	Hopefully this will get fixed.