three way tiebreaker games

bobsayah · 12-08-2018, 07:21 AM

Is OOTP able to deal with scheduling games for three way ties? I just had a situation where Milwaukee, Detroit and Baltimore finished in a three way tie for the second wild-card spot. OOTP scheduled a game between Detroit and Baltimore. Baltimore won and advanced, but Milwaukee never got a chance to play a tiebreaker game. Worse yet, Milwaukee actually had won the head-to-head series against each of the two other teams. I had expected some sort of scenario where two teams play each other, then the third team plays the winner of the first game. Is this working as designed, or is there perhaps some setting that I do not have set right somewhere to get this to work as I expected?

bobsayah · 12-08-2018, 07:24 AM

It just occurred to me that I did a backup just before the tiebreaker game. So, if there is some way to manually edit the schedule to fix this, please let me know and I will "go back in time" and try to give Milwaukee the chance they deserve :-)

bobsayah · 12-08-2018, 12:50 PM

Going back and looking again, I see I was mistaken. Milwaukee actually had the worst head-to-head record and Detroit had the best. So, it did seem to pick the two "better" teams from the tie-breakers, but it looks like it simply eliminated Milwaukee without giving them a chance to play.

Le Grande Orange · 12-09-2018, 02:22 AM

The way MLB resolves a three-way tie like that is by this method:

Day 1: B at A
Day 2: C at A/B

The winner on day 2 wins the tie-breaker.

The tricky part is how MLB decides which team gets which designation. The first thing it looks at is the head-to-head season series. Then, depending on how that plays out, it then next looks at the combined head-to-head records of the tied teams. If that is also tied, then it looks at the division record of each team.

If you want the exact details I can post them, but it does get a little complicated.

12-08-2018, 07:21 AM	#1
bobsayah Bat Boy Join Date: Nov 2018 Posts: 13	three way tiebreaker games Is OOTP able to deal with scheduling games for three way ties? I just had a situation where Milwaukee, Detroit and Baltimore finished in a three way tie for the second wild-card spot. OOTP scheduled a game between Detroit and Baltimore. Baltimore won and advanced, but Milwaukee never got a chance to play a tiebreaker game. Worse yet, Milwaukee actually had won the head-to-head series against each of the two other teams. I had expected some sort of scenario where two teams play each other, then the third team plays the winner of the first game. Is this working as designed, or is there perhaps some setting that I do not have set right somewhere to get this to work as I expected?

12-08-2018, 07:24 AM	#2
bobsayah Bat Boy Join Date: Nov 2018 Posts: 13	It just occurred to me that I did a backup just before the tiebreaker game. So, if there is some way to manually edit the schedule to fix this, please let me know and I will "go back in time" and try to give Milwaukee the chance they deserve :-)

12-08-2018, 12:50 PM	#3
bobsayah Bat Boy Join Date: Nov 2018 Posts: 13	Going back and looking again, I see I was mistaken. Milwaukee actually had the worst head-to-head record and Detroit had the best. So, it did seem to pick the two "better" teams from the tie-breakers, but it looks like it simply eliminated Milwaukee without giving them a chance to play.

12-09-2018, 02:22 AM	#4
Le Grande Orange Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Up There Posts: 15,412	The way MLB resolves a three-way tie like that is by this method: Day 1: B at A Day 2: C at A/B The winner on day 2 wins the tie-breaker. The tricky part is how MLB decides which team gets which designation. The first thing it looks at is the head-to-head season series. Then, depending on how that plays out, it then next looks at the combined head-to-head records of the tied teams. If that is also tied, then it looks at the division record of each team. If you want the exact details I can post them, but it does get a little complicated.