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gmo · 08-23-2009, 12:28 PM

The game will automatically season-to-season cycle through schedules that fit the parameters for the league. If there are 3 such files, each one will appear once every 3 years.

Within the game there are already some schedules that fit the same parameters as the above schedules. So if you simply add these new to the schedules folder in the game the cycling would be through all the matching files and not just the new three.

To get the cycling to be only through these new schedules you must make it so those other matching schedules are not considered by the game. I recommend making a "storage" subfolder within the schedules folder into which to copy the schedules that fit the league parameters but that you do not want to use. Being in that subfolder makes it so the game cannot find them when searching out schedules over which to cycle season-to-season.

The new schedules are of the format with names like "ILY_BGN_G162_SL1_D1_T5_D2_T5_D3_T5_SL2_D1_T5_D2_T 5_D3_T5_C...", so you would want to put into the storage folder all the schedules already in the game that match that naming scheme. I believe there are 6 such. Then you can put the new schedule files in the schedule folder, and since those will now be the only ones there visible with the matching parameters only those 3 will be cycled across.

If there was only one matching schedule (not the case here) the game would mix up the teams within each division to vary that one schedule season-to-season. The games would all stay the same, but the teams playing in them would vary. E.g., everywhere Boston slotted into a game then the next season it may be Toronto slotted in, Tampa Bay might stay in the same slots, New York may replace Toronto, etc.

With multiple matching schedules like the three above (the case here), the game does not do mixing like that but only mixes through loading the different schedules. I have tried to add some mixing across the set of three files so that, e.g., the first game in one is BAL@BOS, in another it is BOS@NYY, and in the last it is NYY@TAM. However those exact 3 schedules will repeat every three years with the cycling. Every time the East divisions match up the first game will be BAL@BOS.

08-23-2009, 12:28 PM	#5
gmo Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2002 Location: Longmont, CO Posts: 3,400	The game will automatically season-to-season cycle through schedules that fit the parameters for the league. If there are 3 such files, each one will appear once every 3 years. Within the game there are already some schedules that fit the same parameters as the above schedules. So if you simply add these new to the schedules folder in the game the cycling would be through all the matching files and not just the new three. To get the cycling to be only through these new schedules you must make it so those other matching schedules are not considered by the game. I recommend making a "storage" subfolder within the schedules folder into which to copy the schedules that fit the league parameters but that you do not want to use. Being in that subfolder makes it so the game cannot find them when searching out schedules over which to cycle season-to-season. The new schedules are of the format with names like "ILY_BGN_G162_SL1_D1_T5_D2_T5_D3_T5_SL2_D1_T5_D2_T 5_D3_T5_C...", so you would want to put into the storage folder all the schedules already in the game that match that naming scheme. I believe there are 6 such. Then you can put the new schedule files in the schedule folder, and since those will now be the only ones there visible with the matching parameters only those 3 will be cycled across. If there was only one matching schedule (not the case here) the game would mix up the teams within each division to vary that one schedule season-to-season. The games would all stay the same, but the teams playing in them would vary. E.g., everywhere Boston slotted into a game then the next season it may be Toronto slotted in, Tampa Bay might stay in the same slots, New York may replace Toronto, etc. With multiple matching schedules like the three above (the case here), the game does not do mixing like that but only mixes through loading the different schedules. I have tried to add some mixing across the set of three files so that, e.g., the first game in one is BAL@BOS, in another it is BOS@NYY, and in the last it is NYY@TAM. However those exact 3 schedules will repeat every three years with the cycling. Every time the East divisions match up the first game will be BAL@BOS.