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Playoff Options
The Playoff Options section is designed to give you a flexibility in determining the playoff model for the currently selected league.
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The Playoff Options section is designed to give you a flexibility in determining the playoff model for the currently selected league.
| Option | Description | Disable Playoffs | If this box is checked, there will be no playoffs in the currently selected league. |
| Split Season Format | If this box is checked, the playoffs will be in a split-season format. See below for more information on split-season playoffs. |
| Playoff Mode | The way in which playoffs will be structured. Either only division winners qualify for the playoffs, or division winners plus a wildcard team (or teams) in each subleague qualify. |
| Number of Wildcard Teams | The number of wildcard teams that make the playoffs. A wildcard team is one that was not a division winner, but that had a won-lost record good enough to qualify for the playoffs. For instance, if each subleague has one wildcard team, it is the team with the best won-lost record that was not a division winner. If each subleague has three wildcard teams, they are the ones with the three best won-lost records among teams that were not division winners. The number of wildcard teams is determined by the game automatically, based on the number teams in the league. The number of teams in the playoffs must be a power of two. Therefore, the number of wildcard teams equals the number of teams required to get from the total number of division winners to the next power of two. For example, if there are 6 division winners, then there have to be 2 wildcards to equal 8 teams in the playoffs. |
| Number of Playoff Rounds | The number of rounds in the playoffs. The game sets this number automatically based on the number of teams in the league. |
| Name of Round X | The name of each playoff round. You can accept the defaults or change these names as you choose. |
| Best of In Round X | The maximum number of games in each round of the playoffs. You can accept the defaults or change these parameters as you choose, selecting from a series length of 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9 games. The first team to win a majority of the scheduled games wins the round. |
 | 'Split season' is a playoff format in which the regular season schedule is divided into two halves, with each half declaring a champion. As a result, the same division could be won by two different teams? one team might finish first in the division in the first half of the season, and a different team might finish first in the second half of the season. At the end of the regular season, the winners from each half of the season meet each other in a playoff to determine the division champion. When this format is enabled, the Playoff Mode and Number of Wildcard Teams options are disabled, and the Number of Playoff Rounds is calculated by the game. A one-division league would have one round of playoffs (first-half winner against second-half winner). A two-division league, or two subleagues each with a single division, would have two rounds (first-half winner against second-half winner in each division or subleague in the first round, with the winners of the first round meeting in the second round). A four-division league, or two subleagues each with two divisions, would have three rounds, and so on. |
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