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May 9, 2020 - New Feature
I was looking to make the playoffs even more realistic. A lot of the issue is low seeded teams doing unusually well. One solution to this is fixing the parity in the league. Why aren't the top teams even better? This comes down to AI roster contruction.
After reviewing the teams I made some adjustments that give AI teams the flexibility to become dominant teams. The top AI teams need to be able to keep strong teams together. They need to be able to sign good quality backup players to have depth in case of injury. Weaker teams should in turn also have a harder time getting cheap depth.
One of the more major changes was I adjusted contracts to be smaller so that AI teams have a little more flexibility until the AI logic improves enough to be able to more effectively navigate how the NBA really moves top players around (which is something for me to work on in the future)
In order to better track how accurately the game is handling playoff performance the League History page now shows how many #1 seeds, #2 seeds, #3 seeds, and #4-#8 won a championship and have been runner ups. For the most part it seems pretty accurate. There are still slightly too many weaker teams getting to the finals, but it is much better than a couple days ago.