Regardless of my post above, I'm not sure I agree with this. Maybe they need to change the rules, but you can't ignore the rules just because there are "playoff implications". What if this game happened in April and SF finished the season 1 game out of the wildcard spot? Should they then go back and replay that April game? A game in September does not get weighted more than a game in April. They all count the same. The whole season is a "playoff race". I disagree with this. Yes, a game in September is weighted the same as a game in April but games in September are more important (depending on the team) because they are the final chance to pull ahead for the playoffs. If you lose a game a April, you still have 150 something games to play to make up for that loss, you lose a game in September, you have 15 games to play. I'm probobly explaining this terrible but I hope you can see where I'm getting at.