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It's unclear to me exactly what the algorithm is for this in OOTP. My hunch has always been that if you take the game number of the season, and divide by the backup frequency, if the remainder is 0, the backup plays. i.e. 18th game, backup set to every 3, 18/3=6 with no remainder, so backup plays. But in practice I don't think that is exactly what I observe.
If you wanted to get complicated, you would probably look at the ratio of games played implied by the backup settings; i.e., if the backup is set to every 3, then that means the backup plays 1/3rd of the games, and you would try to keep that ratio within some logic (i.e. the backup doesn't play consecutive games due to rotation settings alone).
Anyway, I'm guessing it's some form of the first version, though I don't think the algorithm is transparent. I admit I haven't actually looked into it too much.
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