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Playoff wins counted as losses

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:14 pm
by markw96861
I tried a search and couldn't find any other threads.

Anyway, I'm in the playoffs and I am in the middle of a series and realize after I had won 4 games straight that I didn't advance to the next round. In fact, the series was at 2-2. So, I go back and look at the game results and indeed it says that I had won all four games but still the series is 2-2. I looked at my goalie's stats and he also had 4 wins for the games (not 2 wins and 2 losses). I ended up winning in 6 games (actually winning 6 straight games but only getting credit for 4). I was just wondering if this had happened to anyone else. Very strange....

MOD NOTE: I've renamed this thread so that if someone else runs into this problem they can find this thread using the search. - B72

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:22 pm
by bruins72
Somebody else mentioned this recently in another thread (I believe it was the "Funny/weird/cool screenshots" thread). It appears to be a bug that doesn't occur very often....

Okay, I actually tracked down a post by Batdad in that thread that said this...
batdad wrote:THat bug has happened lots in the past. There are threads way back somewhere here on it and at SI forums. It is an annoying scheduling bug in the playoffs where the playoff schedule for the 7 game series for some reason goes

home-road-home-road-home-road-home-road...instead of home-home-road-road-home-road-home. and the EHM engine counts the wins in the system from the ROAD or HOME team, not the ACTUAL team..

It is a bug I have not had a problem with since I put in patch 3.04 but I am not sure that is the reason it was there. It may be just I have been lucky. Because I have seen the schedule change for me from time to time in the playoffs. (IE two back to back games disappearing after I play the first one).

Anyway, what I suggest is when you see a playoff sched that does not start with two consecutive home (or road if you are the bottom ranked team) games...exit the game and go back to most recent save. I always save right after reg season and after every playoff round for that reason. I have seen it work where I get out of that home-road start in the playoffs by going back to the earlier save. Again this was WAYAYY before 3.04 though.

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 4:07 am
by Hensel
Similar thing happend to me except I was down 3-2 and I lost the next two games but the computer counted them as wins and I won the series...It was sooo messed up. This happend before I got involved in this forum so I dont have a screenshot or anything but it was soooo weird.

ditto

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:06 pm
by blizzard
had the same thing happen to me. It was the first time I felt justified in reloading a save file and replaying the game. In then end I had to win 7 games before I advanced, I noticed the Home/Away games were off as well.

Only happened once though in multiple seasons, weird bug.