I have two questions about the use of the schedules that come in the data folder. The first is, how in the heck do you get the game to use them? I know what it says in the player's guide: you force the league to start on the date and day specified in the xml file, and if your league is compatible with a particular schedule, then it's supposed to use the schedule for your league. But I haven't succeeded in getting that to work. I always seem to get some dreary default schedule with a nearly balanced number of games between in-division opponents and non-divisional opponents, every series is exactly three games long, and so on. Yuck.
What I want to do is to use a schedule suitable for 24 teams, like the major leagues in the late 1960s. For years I carried over the package created by Tiger Fan through successive versions of OOTP, but for this game it seemed that all I had to do was to get the game to use the ML 1969 schedule xml file, since that should represent a season similar to the one I want to play.
Am I missing something here? Does the venerable old package of realistic schedules have to be carried over one more time?
And on scheduling in general: The player's guide is a wondrous production, and I want to offer my thanks for all of the work that went into it. But if there's going to be an update, the description of how to adjust schedules is certainly one place where the player could certainly use some more guidance!
