Feature Request: (GOD MODE) Rig Playoffs Before Season Starts

[Shadownite64]

Im the type of person who wishes to have complete control over their league, and in the leagues with A LOT of games like Baseball, Hockey, and Basketball, it becomes annoying to have to constantly keep the teams I want in the playoff bracket by forcing wins, So I suggest that in the playoff menu before the season's 1st game is played you can rig which teams exactly will make it to the playoffs, the sim will favor the teams you select over the others, and try to put them in the exact placement you select. You can already rig the draft so I think this should be another option.

[Shadownite64]

EDIT: Photoshopped a possible UI for what that could look like

[dumbmatter]

Something like this should exist, but I'm not sure exactly what it should look like.

Your idea, having it target a team to be in a certain position, would be pretty confusing. Because it couldn't work all the time. Imagine setting it for just one team to be the 4 seed, and it tries to keep them in the 4 seed, but can't quite do it because of the random good/bad performance of other teams. Or depending on the schedule, some rankings might not be possible at all, but that might be difficult to precompute.

A more reliable way to manually set the playoff bracket is to use the built-in feature to do that at the end of the season. It won't match up with the regular season standings, but it's 100% reliable and easy to understand.

Then after the playoff start...

One thing I do want to do is generate the entire playoff series games up front, rather than one at a time. Then you could force win/loss for the whole series at once. I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

It'd be nice to be able to specify the series winner for all series, including future rounds. But that's maybe less important.

[Shadownite64]

Doesnt necessarily NEED to be in a certain position, just would rather not constantly have to spend time forcing wins to make sure the teams I want make it in.