Hey, guys. The schedule thread is a bit cluttered, so I'm starting a new thread for discussing how to handle the World Series (I'm thinking my team may be in it, so I obviously have a vested interest).
My proposal is that we have the computer play a 7-game series. If you start a game on Watch mode, it actually starts a best-of-seven series, complete with 2-3-2 home-away-home format (home field advantage could be decided based on the team's record, with head-to-head as a tiebreaker). To make things even more complicated, I believe the starting pitcher from game 1 is ineligible to play in game 2 (actually, both starters may be out of commission; I need to check on that to make sure, as that may torpedo the whole idea).
We wouldn't have to play the whole series all at once - the state can be saved using F5 and loaded later with F7 so the next game can be played. In fact, we could pass around the save state file so that one person doesn't have to simulate every game of the series.
If anyone else has any suggestions, please post them.
That's a good idea, but I thought the home team stays the same throughout the 7 game series. Am I wrong here?
When I used to play 7-game series against a friend in elementary school, I'm pretty sure the home team rotated. As a test run, I'll allow further games to be played after the game I'm simulating for the league this afternoon.
I continued after the dvldog/GDavis game and found two things:
1) Any starting pitchers used in the first game are gone for the second one (they're back for game 3).
2) The home team doesn't change - I must've been thinking of RBI 2&3. Unless we want someone to have home field the whole series, we'd have to manually do the games.
one point about doing the series. The computer almost always uses both starting pitchers. We've had a couple complete games but they're pretty rare. So it'll most likely play out having 2 starters pitch in game 1, then 0 in game 2 and so on.