New MLB Playoff Format Confirmed

[AUTiger1]

Re: New MLB Playoff Format Confirmed

Well, that's ridiculous. Earning a wild-card spot should not be in jeopardy of a one-game play in. For example if you are 8 games better than the second wild-card team, you should be in. Stupid. I hate when they mess with things like this. But on the other hand, this doesn't affect the game that much. I was thinking we'd be missing an entire playoff round for some reason. I'm fine with it not being in the game.

But how many times does that really happen that a team runs away with the Wild Card? Not that often. The Wild Card is usually won by 1 or 2 games so this would be perfect.

1995 - AL WC - Yankees by 1.5 games over Angels
1995 - NL WC - Rockies by 1.0 games over Astros
1996 - AL WC - Orioles by 2.5 games over Mariners
1996 - NL WC - Dodgers by 2.0 games over Expos [Just imagine if they had the 1-game playoff and the Expos beat the Dodgers and got into the playoffs. They might still exist.
1998 - NL WC - Cubs by 1.0 games over Giants
1999 - NL WC - Mets by 1.0 games over Reds
2000 - AL WC - Mariners by 1.0 games over Indians
2003 - AL WC - Red Sox by 2.0 games over Mariners
2004 - NL WC - Astros by 1.0 games over Giants
2005 - AL WC - Red Sox by 2.0 games over Indians
2005 - NL WC - Astros by 1.0 games over Phillies
2007 - NL WC - Rockies by 1.0 games over Padres [They actually tied and had to play 1-game tiebreaker and that was one of the best baseball games I've ever seen]
2008 - NL WC - Brewers by 1.0 games over Mets
2010 - NL WC - Braves by 1.0 games over Padres
2011 - AL WC - Rays by 1.0 games over Red Sox
2011 - NL WC - Cardinals by 1.0 games over Braves

That's 16 times in the Wild Card era that the Wild Card was decided by 2.5 games or less.

[ryan36]

Well you know all those guys that were "staying with 11" ... They'll have last years rules , they'll be playing an old game.

...and so will we. I'm not blaming SCEA ; this just feels like one of those things I'm fine with now and really will irk me when MLB playoffs come around. I'll probably the buy the other game used and way marked down in October lol just to play playoffs

[treyraq]

Re: New MLB Playoff Format Confirmed

Great idea, should have already been in place long ago (IMO). Some really deserving teams who place 2nd in the Wild Card standings will now have a chance to show their stuff, instead of going home early! This will make for some very interesting scenarios, and match-ups.

Haha...

"2nd in the Wild Card standings" is like losing to the losers, and you think they are "going home early?!"

To each his own, I guess

[treyraq]

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I don't think SCEA would release a patch with the new playoff system if it screwed up other parts of the game...

Bingo.
Not sure why so many would think a patch would be released if it would break the game.

[dickey1331]

This doesn't bother me but it would be nice if they were able to put it in.


Do you really care where I sent this from?

[CWSpalehoseCWS]

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Ken Rosenthal (FOX Sports) just tweeted that the playoffs are expanding from 8-10 teams this year. Any chance this can be patched in? I remember seeing a post about this a while back, but it is now becoming a reality. I would be pretty disappointed if this didn't get in the game via patch.

Not worried about it. You have to look at it this way, even if MLB decided to wait until 2013, it still wouldn't be in this year's version of The Show, and Franchise mode would still not be "authentic" by time you got into your 2nd year. I'll happily wait until next year, when it can be integrated into the game properly.

[flute_316]

Re: New MLB Playoff Format Confirmed

Has the question ever been asked or brought up about the playoff possible change? I know they have a group of guys that attend a pre-view show every year.

[KCsFinest5]

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Have any of you calling this a "no brainer" ever stopped to think about how this "small change" could completely change the coding and logic of franchise mode?

"Highly disappointed"? "No reason this can't be in"? A "no brainer"? All comments from people who have no clue what this change actually entails involving a decision that isn't even 100% decided.

It never ends

This was pretty condescending. We are all lovers of the show here. If you are such an expert, please, just tell us how hard it is to put this in the game.

I did not intend for this thread to turn into bashing the devs or the game when I wrote it. I love the show and I think these devs are elite when it comes to video game circles. To say that I would be disappointed with this not being in the game is fair, and it isn't the devs fault. It is what it is.

[EnigmaNemesis]

True, but to say it is a "no brainier" however, when the MLB is handling this with "no brains" so far... is well, plain silly and ignorant.

Show lovers or not.

If everything was so easy, everything would be in the game already.

[bigdaddykraven]

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But how many times does that really happen that a team runs away with the Wild Card? Not that often. The Wild Card is usually won by 1 or 2 games so this would be perfect.

1995 - AL WC - Yankees by 1.5 games over Angels
1995 - NL WC - Rockies by 1.0 games over Astros
1996 - AL WC - Orioles by 2.5 games over Mariners
1996 - NL WC - Dodgers by 2.0 games over Expos [Just imagine if they had the 1-game playoff and the Expos beat the Dodgers and got into the playoffs. They might still exist.
1998 - NL WC - Cubs by 1.0 games over Giants
1999 - NL WC - Mets by 1.0 games over Reds
2000 - AL WC - Mariners by 1.0 games over Indians
2003 - AL WC - Red Sox by 2.0 games over Mariners
2004 - NL WC - Astros by 1.0 games over Giants
2005 - AL WC - Red Sox by 2.0 games over Indians
2005 - NL WC - Astros by 1.0 games over Phillies
2007 - NL WC - Rockies by 1.0 games over Padres [They actually tied and had to play 1-game tiebreaker and that was one of the best baseball games I've ever seen]
2008 - NL WC - Brewers by 1.0 games over Mets
2010 - NL WC - Braves by 1.0 games over Padres
2011 - AL WC - Rays by 1.0 games over Red Sox
2011 - NL WC - Cardinals by 1.0 games over Braves

That's 16 times in the Wild Card era that the Wild Card was decided by 2.5 games or less.

To be fair, in 1999 the Reds and Mets were tied for the WC and DID in fact have a 1 game playoff for the spot...it was a pretty exciting time for us Reds fans who had been on a drought since our 1990 World Series. I think it was on a week day and I was in High School so I remember staying up later than I should to cheer and watch the Reds fall but the weeks leading up to it and that one game gave me, as a fan, some extra excitement.

If you can't tell, I'm FOR the extra playoff game. I don't know that I like it being a one game playoff, I think best of 3 would work better but I get not wanting to extend the season more. Maybe we can just start the season a week early...or you know, my preference start one season a month after the last one ends. MORE BASEBALL!

[nonnel]

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Have any of you calling this a "no brainer" ever stopped to think about how this "small change" could completely change the coding and logic of franchise mode?

"Highly disappointed"? "No reason this can't be in"? A "no brainer"? All comments from people who have no clue what this change actually entails involving a decision that isn't even 100% decided.

It never ends

I'm so tired of people like you acting as though changing anything in a video game results in complete chaos. Fact is, adding it as an OPTION when they know months in advance there's a very good POSSIBILITY of this IS common sense.

So do you think it shouldn't be added next year either? Ya know, since it might break the game and all? Where's the logic in your statement?



And again, I hate complaining about anything with this great game... and there's always a great chance SCEA has planned something and I'm not knocking them at all. I just wanted to comment on the complete ineptitude of posts like yours.

[nonnel]

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OK but we are talking about an extra playoff spot that does not exist in real life so why would it be in MLB 12? You can say I "make no sense" and that I can "Enjoy my train of thought." That's cool but I don't see where I am wrong here.

With that said I am just going to say you are right and leave it at that.

Easy answer. The extra playoff spot has been talked about as a very real possibility for months and months now. So to say it doesn't "exist" is silly. The likelihood of this has been very high.

And I again contend that the "existence" of something in real life has nothing to do with being able to put the option in for a video game. There also is nothing that resembles "diamond dynasty" in real life either, yet they put that in a video game. That's all.

[BoSox5]

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This expansion was talked about as a possibility as early as November. With that in mind, why didn't SCEA at least make Franchise more customized in case this were to happen in 2012? Other sports games have this feature and it would have made the playoff structure a non issue when whatever decision was made.

[xKaoTicxLegEndx]

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I'm so tired of people like you acting as though changing anything in a video game results in complete chaos. Fact is, adding it as an OPTION when they know months in advance there's a very good POSSIBILITY of this IS common sense.

So do you think it shouldn't be added next year either? Ya know, since it might break the game and all? Where's the logic in your statement?



And again, I hate complaining about anything with this great game... and there's always a great chance SCEA has planned something and I'm not knocking them at all. I just wanted to comment on the complete ineptitude of posts like yours.

He's not saying anything remotely close to that. What he's saying, and I agree, is that since the game is already complete - it's been shipped, and a few of our fellow posters already have a copy of the game, and are playing it as we speak - changing the coding to implement this option could very well cause problems with this year's game.

If the devs know that this format is, FOR A FACT (i.e. MLB announces that this format is official), going to be the format they use, then the devs will have a development cycle for MLB 13 to incorporate that format so that it doesn't cause any problems in next year's game.

[nonnel]

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He's not saying anything remotely close to that. What he's saying, and I agree, is that since the game is already complete - it's been shipped, and a few of our fellow posters already have a copy of the game, and are playing it as we speak - changing the coding to implement this option could very well cause problems with this year's game.

If the devs know that this format is, FOR A FACT (i.e. MLB announces that this format is official), going to be the format they use, then the devs will have a development cycle for MLB 13 to incorporate that format so that it doesn't cause any problems in next year's game.

You're missing my point. I realize that the game is already complete. But the devs did know that the format FOR A FACT was a very real POSSIBILITY since last summer. There's been talk about it since then. So, my point is...

I would have thought there would be an OPTION already in place for the completed version of this game to add another wildcard team.

Again, not knocking SCEA, because I have no idea what they have planned and they're a brilliant company, but I'm just saying I'll be disappointed if a huge change in format like this isn't incorporated when they had plenty of warning to it's possibility. If it's possible to put in NEXT YEAR'S version, it was possible to put in this year as an OPTION, in my opinion.