Spanish Style Playoffs

[nasaiain]

For a fictional league I am building I am trying to create the playoff system previously used in Spain.

Thsi is the Lowest tier in the file the Samsara Conference it works like this

8 leagues and at the end of the season the top 4 in each league qualify for the play offs.

• 1st place goes into the Championship Playoff
• 2nd to 4th go into the Promotion Playoffs 

The Championship playoff (stage 0) works as follows

• Quater Final
  • Winners get promoted
  • Losers drop into the Promotion playoff (thsi is the part I have the issue with
• Semi Final
• Final to crown Champions

The Promotion playoff (stage 1) works as follows

• Quater Final (12 matches)
• Semi Final 8 matches
  • 12 winners from the quater final
  • 4 Loser from the Championship Playoff Quater Finals
• Final (4 matches) winners are promoted

The teams that drop from the Championship Playoff to the Promotion playoff just never appear, and teh game reformats the Promotion Playoff to have only 8 Quater Finals

 

Samsara 2.02.fmf

[DaveTheEditor]

@nasaiain

I'll have a look at your file tomorrow, unfortunately I won't have time before then, but of course I'll help you.

[Flik]

it seems to have something to do with the 'number of teams in stage 1, you have entered 24 and this ideally should be -1 but my editor wont allow me to change it for some reason, it just alters it to +2

[nasaiain]

8 hours ago, Flik said:

it seems to have something to do with the 'number of teams in stage 1, you have entered 24 and this ideally should be -1 but my editor wont allow me to change it for some reason, it just alters it to +2

I was copying this from an the FM16 rules for Spain, and I did notice that it had a -1, but as you say it won't let me enter it. Will try and export the file and edit the text see if that works.

[nasaiain]

Well I managed to edit the xml file to set the number of teams as -1 ok.

Now just to get past the editor crashing on the date when setting up the competition without any explanation

I have raised a bug report for this

 

[Flik]

It crashed on me so many times yesterday I was swearing! Ill keep having a look at it for ya tho... it acts as a break from my own lol

[nasaiain]

I have managed to get this to work, I had to add another stage at the start to ensure the right teams went where I wanted

The Championship Qualification (stage 0) works as follows

• Qualification playoff 4 Matches
  • Winners go through to stage 2 Semi-Final
  • Loser go through to stage 1 2nd round

The Promotion playoff (stage 1) works as follows

• 1st Round (12 matches)
• 2nd roundl 8 matches
  • 12 winners from the 1st round
  • 4 Loser from the Qualification matches
• 3rd round (4 matches) winners are promoted

The Championship playoff (stage 2) works as follows

• Semi Final
• Final to Crown Champions