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After over 1 month of cricketing action, World Cup is approaching the knockout stages. We have seen some good knocks, some sharp catches and also hat-tricks.  Now as today the group stage ends, so we will be providing you with some guidelines regarding the World Cup playoffs format at Cricbattle.

1. Those who have Playoffs format enabled in their private leagues:
Top 4 teams in league standings after 45th match, will play 46, 47, 48 matches. Other teams will be eliminated. It will be World Cup style playoff including the Semifinal-1, Semifinal-2 and Final.

Follow the below steps to make teams during playoffs.

Salary Cap Leagues:
a. After the league stage is completed the playoff schedule is generated and the Team managers are decided for  Semifinal-1 and Semifinal-2  match.
b. You will see a menu called as Playoff in your league menu. From where you can access all the stages of playoff round.
c. In each stage of the playoff schedule you will have to create a new team comprising the players who are playing at that stage.
For example if Semifinal-1 is being played between AUS vs ENG. Then the Team Managers who qualified for  Semifinal-1 will have to create team by selecting players playing in the AUS vs ENG match
d. Each manager will play Head to Head against an opponent and the winner will progress to the Final match.
e. In the Playoff page you will get different buttons to access the respective pages for the specific round. For example Matchup, Manage Team etc

Draft Leagues:
a. After the league stage is completed the playoff schedule is generated and the Team managers are decided for Semifinal-1 and Semifinal-2 match.
b. You will see a menu called as Playoff in your league menu. From where you can access all the stages of playoff round.
c. In each stage of the playoff schedule you will have to play draft with your opponent to create a new team comprising the players who are playing at that stage.
For example  if Semifinal-1 is being played between AUS vs ENG. Then the Team Managers who qualified for Semifinal-1 will have to play draft to create their team by selecting players playing in the AUS vs ENG match
d. Each manager will play Head to Head against an opponent and the winner will progress to the next round as per playoffs schedule.
e. In the Playoff page you will get different buttons to access the respective pages for the specific round. For example Trade Players, Matchup, Manage Team etc

We have provided the users an option to reset their playoff draft time by themselves. You need to submit your draft time request and once your opponent accepts that, the draft will be reset and the draft time will be update 

2. Trade reset during playoffs for leagues in which customization has been enabled:
This setting is applicable for the leagues in which Playoff Format has not been enabled. Since the playoffs are just round the corner, so we request league managers to configure these rules before the end of the last group stage match.

There are 3 settings related to it. League managers can enable these settings in their private leagues. Let me explain each of those settings

a. “Allow separate trades during playoff matches” – This means if you select yes for this option then only the trades will get reset during playoffs stage. If you select yes then only the below 2 settings will be considered. Or else the number of trades allowed will be considered for the whole tournament.
b. “No of trades during Playoffs” – In this setting you can choose the number of trades you want to allow during playoffs
c. “Allow free trades until 1st match of Playoff starts” – If you select this settings to yes then everyone in your league can do unlimited trades after the last match of group stage starts till the start of the Semifinal-1.
d. “Free Trades for Each Day/Round during Playoffs” – This setting will let you choose the number of free trades to be offered for each day / round during Playoffs. Not applicable if No. Of trades during Playoffs are unlimited.

The leagues in which playoffs format is enabled, they will already have unlimited trades during Semifinal-1, Semifinal-2 and Final.  So the above settings will not be applicable for those leagues