Game is Reversing Home-Field Advantage in Playoffs

NovaNation19 · 09-11-2020, 12:07 AM

Have noticed a couple times now that the game does not follow the proper logic for assigning home-field advantage during the playoffs, or at least during Association Playoffs.

In the example below, there's 24 teams in the tournament and the #1 seed "Olympique Lyonnais" naturally has a bye for the first round, but is playing 3 road games for Round 2 in a Best of 3. I can't load the Playoff Setup options window since the playoffs are currently active but this seems like something that may need to be addressed. I can tell you that I use "Select qualifying teams individually by position", the playoff mode is "Regular", the First round matchups determined by is "Seeding (by Winning%)", and Later Rounds Matchups are "Fixed". Am I doing something wrong in my setup? This is also happening in another playoff where I use "Position" instead of "Seeding (by Winning%)" so I don't believe that is the root cause. Would it have something to do with "Select qualifying teams individually by position" being selected?

NovaNation19 · 09-11-2020, 12:12 AM

I should add that I am aware that a simple workaround exists to just flip teams in the schedule editor. I am mainly wondering if that's a known glitch that I should manually deal with or if I am doing something wrong in the playoff setup.

Eugene Church · 09-11-2020, 12:23 AM

This often happened to me over the years... the first round schedule usually is correct as far as homefield advantage... but after that it is not always correct.

I do it manually like you do and fix the error.

It is quite possible I don't understand the playoff terminology and have it set up wrong.

Reed · 09-11-2020, 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Eugene Church

It is quite possible I don't understand the playoff terminology and have it set up wrong.

Agree the terminology is confusing in the custom playoff section. It originally was wrong and after a couple seasons I went back in and changed it around. It seems to be working correctly now, or maybe I have been lucky.

venflaalachi · 09-11-2020, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Reed

Agree the terminology is confusing in the custom playoff section. It originally was wrong and after a couple seasons I went back in and changed it around. It seems to be working correctly now, or maybe I have been lucky.

I've had the problem the original poster noted (lower seeded team has home field advantage), can you let me know how you fixed it?

09-11-2020, 12:07 AM	#1
NovaNation19 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jun 2016 Posts: 151	Game is Reversing Home-Field Advantage in Playoffs Have noticed a couple times now that the game does not follow the proper logic for assigning home-field advantage during the playoffs, or at least during Association Playoffs. In the example below, there's 24 teams in the tournament and the #1 seed "Olympique Lyonnais" naturally has a bye for the first round, but is playing 3 road games for Round 2 in a Best of 3. I can't load the Playoff Setup options window since the playoffs are currently active but this seems like something that may need to be addressed. I can tell you that I use "Select qualifying teams individually by position", the playoff mode is "Regular", the First round matchups determined by is "Seeding (by Winning%)", and Later Rounds Matchups are "Fixed". Am I doing something wrong in my setup? This is also happening in another playoff where I use "Position" instead of "Seeding (by Winning%)" so I don't believe that is the root cause. Would it have something to do with "Select qualifying teams individually by position" being selected?

09-11-2020, 12:12 AM	#2
NovaNation19 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jun 2016 Posts: 151	I should add that I am aware that a simple workaround exists to just flip teams in the schedule editor. I am mainly wondering if that's a known glitch that I should manually deal with or if I am doing something wrong in the playoff setup.

09-11-2020, 12:23 AM	#3
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 35,979	This often happened to me over the years... the first round schedule usually is correct as far as homefield advantage... but after that it is not always correct. I do it manually like you do and fix the error. It is quite possible I don't understand the playoff terminology and have it set up wrong.