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Originally Posted by redtiger7
Last night I noticed that 99% of the time in FHM, the Stanley Cup finalists come from teams that finiashed in the top 10% of the league. I noticed only once or twice in the last 20 seasons of my sim has a low seeded team made it to the finals (as the Panthers are doing this year, and many, many teams have done in the past) Be nice if these underdogs cropped up more in FHM.
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I suspect this would be rather difficult to pull off well. I assume that the success of teams in the playoffs depends on the matchups, personnel, and tactics. AI as general manager is really hard to get right (as in matching the exact way a real GM would operate), and as a result you should expect less parity than in real life. But if there's even a little bit less parity, then there's a lot fewer significant upsets.
They could code it to where there's a random element, where a certain seed defeats a higher seed with a certain likelihood, but I guarantee that will start an internet protest haha.