02-23-2023, 02:07 PMCementHands Wrote: I agree there aren't good options, but you would not have to commit to not having any updated files for playoffs. Options could have been to apply to current update immediately, or at the end of this update cycle. Going with either of these you could have selected to play the first round with the current file and update, or update immediately.
People are going to complain either way, but saying the 2 options were "finish the playoffs on the current, un updated file", or "restart the playoffs with an updated file" leaves out a lot of other discussion that I'm sure HO went through.

I think I might not have phrased that correctly, because there are definitely more than two options here that I intended to stress. The point I intended to make was that any path forward that involved continuing with the un-updated file would have required us to fully audit the file (because there were other errors brought to our attention outside of just the missing updates) and re-do all of the updates, regardless of when that was going to happen.

In any case outside of re-simming, we would have had to have redone the work that the filework team had already done once, in order to preserve the result of four games that were decided without an entire cycle of updates that GMs were working under the assumption their teams had. In light of all that, in addition to the fact that we have previously re-simmed for this exact issue twice in the past few seasons, I'm not sure much of a case could be made for the amount of extra work that would have been required from multiple departments. I think consistency is important, and I don't think it would make for much consistency if we had just decided "yeah we re-simmed for this last time but this time we are going to come up with a different solution that's more trouble in order to maintain the results of games that were decided between teams with old builds because we just would really rather not go through another re-sim"