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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
Not sure if it can be replicated in OOTP, but perhaps it serves as the basis for other ideas that are.  |
Surprise! I just confirmed that the 3-team round-robin World Series as described by Branch Rickey can be done in OOTP if you are willing to use a little elbow grease.
I've attached screenshots to show how to do it:
1) Set up a round-robin for the 3 champions at 8 games each. Set number of teams to advance to 1. (image 1). This will create a schedule of 12 games that you will change.
2) When the playoffs start, go to the schedule editor and edit the schedule to have 11 playoff games per Rickey's description. It's basically 6 two-game series with the final series (hosted by the bottom seed) being just a single game. That's 11 total games. (image 2)
3) Start playing these games until one team loses 4 games and is eliminated. In this case, it was Pittsburgh (the top seed) going 0-4. When that happens, reschedule the remaining games to be just between the final two teams such that they play a best-of-7 that includes playoff games already played between them.
In this case, the Mets were up 1-0 on the Yankees when the Pirates were eliminated, so I scheduled 6 more games between them. Play out those games until one team wins the best-of-7, then remove any remaining unplayed games from the schedule. (image 3)
4) Advance to the next day and you'll get a notice that the offseason is about to start since there are no more scheduled playoff games. Start the off-season and you'll see the champion listed in the league history! (image 4)
The only downside is that OOTP doesn't write up a news recap on the World Series victory but maybe we can enlist ChatGPT for that!