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Originally Posted by genghisdunn
...I just kind of dove in on April 1 by scheduling the whole league one week at a time. ... The offdays gave me the biggest problem. When I reached the last month, I found I had some teams with 7 days off remaining and some had only 2 or 3, which made scheduling really difficult.
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Sounds like you did a good job for just jumping in with it. My techniques may not be optimal, but I have gotten a lot of experience with them. They work pretty well for me, but sometimes it still takes a while to get all the details set. I have tried to get better at laying things out in such ways that I think the fine tuning will be easier or there will at least be greater flexibility in it.
A bit more explanation that may be useful toward the offdays and why series seem easier with which to work... MLB now fits 162 games into 26 weeks, which is 51 half-weeks when the All-Star Break is removed from consideration. So for one team if each half week had a 3-game series in it, that would mean 153 games plus an offday every week. Making 9 of those half weeks 4-game series gives the right number of games and gets down to the number of offdays to make it all fit. But there cannot be two 4-game series in the same week, and three weeks in a row with games all 7 days gets over 20 consecutive days with games. I keep an eye on and adjust those things while getting the homestand and roadtrip lengths optimized.
For that 162 games in 51 half -weeks there could be 42 with 3-game series and 9 with 4-game series. But sometimes more 4-game series will be prescribed and some of the 3-game series can be pumped up to that and others dropped down to 2-game series. Sometimes 2-game series can stand alone, other times they can be paired into 4-game blocks to fit in a half week. Fitting the games initially into the half-weeks like that pretty much makes sure the offdays work out since I try to spread them around when I go from have all the matchups laid out to putting them into order.