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cbdswagg504
9 months ago

CFP bracket isn't accurate on Dynasty mode when you realign conferences

The College Football Playoff bracket is broken in Dynasty when you realign conferences. It doesn't reflect the CFP Top 25 rankings and makes its own version of it. Multiple non-P4 champions/leaders that are unranked or lower than other P4 schools are ranked higher and receive one of the four byes.

It disregards the rankings to include non-P4 champions. For example (photo include), three of the four teams that receive a bye (which has the true rankings by the team's name) are not ranked in the top 12 of the CFP rankings and are listed as getting byes in the playoffs. Whereas, the true top seeds (Kansas State, Clemson) should receive byes per the top 25 rankings.

This issue has occurred in multiple leagues and needs to be resolved as it disrupts the Dynasty experience

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  • BuckeyefaninMI's avatar
    BuckeyefaninMI
    9 months ago
    @cbdswagg504 The CFP seedings and qualification rules are as follows:
    5 conference champions automatically qualify. The top 4 ranked of these 5 get first round byes. The remaining 7 spots are at-large bids that would then go to highest ranked teams that did not receive AQ. Since your screenshots are in the middle of a season, there is some criteria used to project conference winners at that point. I would be curious what the end of season actual CFP looks like. Also, would need to know what conferences each team is in to determine for sure.
  • cbdswagg504's avatar
    cbdswagg504
    9 months ago

    This issue still occurs when you advance past conference championships. I have simmed multiple leagues when I have realigned conferences, and this issue arises.

    The bracket disregards the CFP Top 25 and include conference leaders that aren't higher than the Power 4 leaders (in this league, Clemson - ACC; Tennessee - SEC; Kansas State - Big 12; Oregon (not shown) - Big Ten). You can tell there is a bug occuring with K State labeled as No. 1 (next to team's name) and Clemson as No. 5, but the bracket includes conference leaders that are lower than them.

  • moreaum2's avatar
    moreaum2
    8 months ago

    Assuming K-State is in an 8 team league, they must not be the conference leader/champion. Even if they go 12-0 and are undefeated #1, it is plausible that 2 other Big 12 teams went 8/9-0 in conference as well and K-State was odd man out via tiebreaker. Therefore, they are not conference champion and cannot be a top 4 seed. You could theoretically have 4 non-power teams as the byes if they are the 4 highest ranked conference champions (obviously wont happen but its possible).

    People are gonna be shocked when a G5 team goes undefeated and gets a 1st round bye because a 9-3 big 12 or acc champion is ranked lower than them. Wont surprise me if it happens this year with how bad the ACC is.

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