by jlemmen43 » Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:41 pm
Conference Type all ties back to the conference scheduling. You can find this in your Schedule Database in the App/Data/ folder. Open that for a guide.
The 12 is obviously for conferences with 12 teams. Then the letter is for the games. 12e is one I like to use, and that helps when having 2 divisions within a conference, where you always play home and away with teams in your division. Then the rest of the conference games are random as far as who you play twice or once. But if you click on each letter in the schedule, and then sort, you can see what kind of setup each is.
Tourney Types are a little less intuitive and you may have to test out some setups to figure out what you want. For reference, I use the Real World Mod as a guide. In a 12 team conference with 2 divisions, I use 12a for tourney type and that gives me seeding based purely on conference record, and disregards division winners. There is a tourney type that seeds based on division standings (albeit in a fixed seeding where the 1st division always gets the #1 seed, 2nd division always gets the #2 seed). Most differences in tourney types deal with single byes & double byes.
Hopefully that helps.