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Tiebreakers and BIG schedule bug

By Firefly
10/14/2013 9:41 am
Just to make sure, the AI playoff calculations are water-tight, right? I ask cause the game says I'm in the playoffs even though I could potentially find myself in a four-way tie for two Wild Card spots.

I do have a nice 5-1 division record, so even if I lose to Cincy we'll only be 5-2. And they do say it's hard to beat a team three times in one season... see anything funny yet? :)

Re: Tiebreakers and BIG schedule bug

By jdavidbakr - Site Admin
10/14/2013 10:03 am
Firefly wrote:
Just to make sure, the AI playoff calculations are water-tight, right? I ask cause the game says I'm in the playoffs even though I could potentially find myself in a four-way tie for two Wild Card spots.

I do have a nice 5-1 division record, so even if I lose to Cincy we'll only be 5-2. And they do say it's hard to beat a team three times in one season... see anything funny yet? :)


You've clinched a playoff birth, but not the division. The playoff calculations _should_ be accurate, I have it set to not set it if it's able to find a scenario that you would lose the tiebreakers. It actually goes through all possible win/loss combinations to close out the season and determines the worst seed you would get if you lose all your remaining games. So without looking at who everyone plays in week 16, you should win at least all but one tiebreaker with any team that could end 10-6 and not win the division.

Re: Tiebreakers and BIG schedule bug

By Firefly
10/14/2013 10:05 am
jdavidbakr wrote:
Firefly wrote:
Just to make sure, the AI playoff calculations are water-tight, right? I ask cause the game says I'm in the playoffs even though I could potentially find myself in a four-way tie for two Wild Card spots.

I do have a nice 5-1 division record, so even if I lose to Cincy we'll only be 5-2. And they do say it's hard to beat a team three times in one season... see anything funny yet? :)


You've clinched a playoff birth, but not the division. The playoff calculations _should_ be accurate, I have it set to not set it if it's able to find a scenario that you would lose the tiebreakers. It actually goes through all possible win/loss combinations to close out the season and determines the worst seed you would get if you lose all your remaining games. So without looking at who everyone plays in week 16, you should win at least all but one tiebreaker with any team that could end 10-6 and not win the division.


Awesome!

But... you did see the bit about us playing Cincy three times, right?

Re: Tiebreakers and BIG schedule bug

By jdavidbakr - Site Admin
10/14/2013 10:06 am
... and the fact that you play Cinci 3 times is that same schedule bug that someone reported near the beginning of the current season - unfortunately this schedule had already been created before that bug was reported. That bug was introduced as a response to the bug where teams were playing different interconference divisions, and I didn't catch the follow-up bug until I think it was MFN-4 failed to run as a result of it. I had to manually put in a few games of teams who were missing games to get it to work.

Re: Tiebreakers and BIG schedule bug

By Firefly
10/14/2013 10:07 am
Oh, ok. Thought it was new.