Leagues: Post-Season Information
DMB understands that most league seasons end with some sort of
championship playoffs. In the course of baseball history, there
have been several changes in the number of teams that qualify for
post-season play and the length and format of those post-season
series, so DMB provides you with a variety of options for setting
up and playing your post-season games. The post-season tab is shown
below with some fields filled in:
On the post-season page of the Modify League window, you can
specify which teams should meet in the first round of the playoffs
and what format those first round series should follow. The format
is entered as a string of digits where 0 (zero, not the letter)
indicates a travel day, 1 indicates the higher-seeded team is at
home, and 2 indicates that the lower-seeded team is at home. Here
are a few examples:
0220111 -- A travel day between the end of the regular season
and the start of this series, followed by two games at the visiting
(lower-seeded) team's park, another travel day, and three games at
the home (higher-seeded) team's park.
1102201 -- Two games at the park of the home (higher-seeded)
team, a travel day, two games at the other park, another travel
day, and the deciding game at the home team's park
0110222011 --The 2-3-2 format that has been in use for most
seven-game series in recent history
The post-season page also provides the ability to enter the
teams that qualify for the league championship round of the
playoffs. In most cases, DMB will automatically identify these
teams based on the results of the first round, but if your league
doesn't have a first round, you can select the teams using this
form. You can also enter a format for this championship series and
click on a radio button to indicate which of these teams has the
home-field advantage for the series.
The schedule editor window provides a command that enables DMB
to generate
schedules for post-season series, and DMB uses the information
on this page (the teams and series formats) to create those
schedules.
As these series games are played, DMB updates each team's win
total so it can display those win-loss records on the Post-season
tab of the scheduled game window and determine when a series has
been decided. You cannot change the teams or series format after
the series has started.
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