Schedules done
I have finished the schedules for you. At first I was just going to give you one but a few things bothered me and I decided to do the schedule differently. Here are the specs to the schedule:
The schedule is 184 days, just 2 days over a mlb season. I decide against rewriting it to have 4 games series it was just a mess to try to get this to work. I kept it at 3-game series for everyone except for when the interleague 2 game series is played.
Obviously I could not use 6 games a week and keep it under 192 days or even more. The base schedule was long. I put the schedule into 12 day blocks instead of 7 days. That would make it 4 series then an off day. It worked great, but it looked weird with the league wide off day every 13 days. I took some games from the series above the off day and some from the series after it. This way no teams have the same off days. This also makes it so you have games every day of the season and the number of games played are not the same for every team at a time in the schedule.
The schedules starts each year on April 2, with the all-star game on July 8 and ends October 2. This is the start times regardless of what day of the week April 2 is on. This was done to keep it consistant with you request and it made sence to do it this way since the games are not in weekiy blocks, but continuous.
I was also concerned after I made the original schedule that the matchups for the 2 game series would be the same each year. I decided to give you 5 schedules. They are randomized with the matchups within the subleague and with the interleague games. All the schedules look good in the game.
When I create schedules I do it in a spreadsheet and when done I delete the spreadsheets. I have 2 spreadsheets with this project if you want them. One is the actual schedule created with the ability to randomized the matchups automatically. All you do is copy 2 columns that have the away and home teams and you paste special onto the previous schedule, the new matchups can then be copied to a second spreadsheet which just a quick paste special and then sort the schedule by date/home game. It automatically builds the lsdl game lines which you just copy and paste into a lsdl file. If you want these so that you may make your own schedules for this league in the future, or if you feel the 5 schdules are good enough let me know. I probably will delete these tomorrow or monday.
Sorry that this is long, here they are:
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