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Originally Posted by Spindel

With the 2006 schedule now out, is there any idea of when we might expect it available?

Sorry for not responding to this sooner.

I usually don't do the schedule for the next MLB season until it shows up on MLB's web site in detail, which is normally by the start of March. While the schedule as it is available now is unlikely to change, waiting until then guarantees any changes will be included. Also, the MLB site lists the game start times for each game, making it possible to put in the starting time category accurately.

So, in other words, I'll do my version of the 2006 MLB schedule in late February/early March.

Originally Posted by ifspuds

So how much of a pain would it be to generate non-doubleheader versions of schedules?

To echo what gmo has already mentioned, converting over older schedules to doubleheader-free ones is difficult, since the doubleheader was an integral part of the schedule and not something simply tacked on.

It can be done, but does require a lot of adjustment, and the results may not bear all that much resemblance to the form of the original version.

As noted, earlier seasons were shorter chronologically, meaning there aren't a whole lot of days to work with. Consider that currently a 162 game season is played in 26 weeks, while the 10-team leagues when playing 162 games did it in only 25 weeks.

It also depends on how much one wants the doubleheader-free version to resemble the historical starting point. One idea, for example, would simply to stick the second game of a DH onto the next day, and then bump all the remaining games down a day to compensate. Any team not playing a DH would then have an off day. Of course, doing this will bump most games off of the day of the week they're supposed to be on, plus the schedule would also run more days than it did historically. But on the other hand, the flow of the opponents and the road trips would remain the closest to the historical starting point.

There is no right answer; it'll depend on each individual as to what they prefer.

Originally Posted by gmo

I do not know that it would be appropriate to post these editted versions here in this thread. Maybe I will put them in the fictional schedules thread.

I think the fictional schedules thread makes sense; plus, that thread tends to get a lot of traffic anyway so they'd probably be more noticed there.