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Today we released a new build to our test team. Beside a few fixes and tweaks to development it also included 3 new playable leagues:
Swiss Nationalliga A
Federal Hockey League
Asian League
Early testing worked fine so expect them to be part of the next patch.
Malte and I played around with the Schedule Generator today. Before release we removed it because it did not work as intended with no time to fix it. We took a few hours today to look into it today and fixed a few easy things. At least it generates schedules now without crashing but we have to do a lot more testing of different structures to be sure that it is usable for us.
Disclaimer: Schedule Generators are one of the hardest things to code and it is almost impossible to generate realistic schedules (everyone who used the OOTP schedule generator will know what I'm talking about but at least it works without crashing). We do our best to apply certain restrictions (e.g. number of back to back games, average games per week, ...) but existing schedule templates will always be your best choice. Anyways, as a test I generated a NHL schedule and it looked ok (going from early October to mid April, all teams had the expected number of games). Additionally I generated a DEL schedule (which looks totally different then a NHL schedule with Gamedays on Friday and Sunday and all teams play each other 4 times) and it worked out as intended. Tomorrow we will test as many structures as possible (like expanding the NHL to 31 teams) and analyze the results.
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