This is a small program to create custom schedules for OOTP. Tested on Windows 10 and Linux Mint, but it should work on any Windows, Linux, or Mac system with a recent version of Java.
Please provide feedback and report errors in this thread. The README file in the release explains a little more about how to use it.
Get it here (v2.11).
Usage guide- Open the 'run.bat' file (or 'run.sh' for Mac/Linux).
- The schedule generator will print some information about settings set to defaults and ask if you want to proceed. If your settings.ini file is missing critical settings, the scheduler will tell you so and prompt you to quit by pressing enter.
- If your settings.ini passes muster, the scheduler will prompt you to proceed by entering 'y'.
- The scheduler will print the generated opponent pools, series counts, and other debugging information, and then will adjust home-away balance and schedule game times on each day.
- The scheduler will prompt you to enter a command. 'help' describes what each command does. 'write' will output the schedule to a file in the same directory as the schedule generator.
Changelog
v1.0 (Nov. 18, 2015):
- Initial release.
v1.1 (Nov. 19, 2015):
- Fix a bug where the schedule generation engine would pick too large an interval between series against the same opponent, leading to schedules with clusters of games at the start and end of the calendar, and large free spaces. This reduces, sometimes dramatically, the break time required for the schedule generation engine to find a solution.
v1.2 (Nov. 25, 2015):
- Implemented week-aware scheduling.
- Implemented schedule normalization.
v1.3 (Nov. 30, 2015):
- Settings for scheduling all-star games and the all-star break.
- Fixes bug where week-aware schedules would get off-kilter because
of the in-game all-star break scheduling.
- New slot conflict detection model, which detects more bad schedules
early on.
v1.4 (Jan. 20, 2016)
- Allow underscores in league definitions.
- Relax constraints on number of games.
v2.0 (Jul. 21, 2017)
- Entirely revamp scheduling engine.
v2.1 (Jul. 23, 2017)
- Add division matching for interdivisional and interleague games. The engine will attempt to pair off divisions of equal size to play against one another.
- Improve interdivisional and interleague scheduling.
- Improve home-away balancing.
v2.2 (Jul. 26, 2017)
- Fix problem where interleague pools would improperly fall back to random when matched-divisions scheduling is possible - Further improve home/away balancing; should come up with schedules balanced in home/away games in each category (and for each team, if size settings allow).
v2.3 (Jul. 31, 2017)
- Add option to match subleagues rather than divisions for interleague games (i.e., each team in SL1 plays each team in SL2, rather than pairing divisions).
- Improve scheduling of break days.
- Add option to prevent random break days from falling on certain days of the week.
- Add option to prevent random break days from occurring in the middle of series, provided doing so would not leave a team off on a day of the week specified by the option above.
- Improve handling of settings, notifying users when required settings are missing and providing sensible defaults for optional settings.
v2.4 (Aug. 1, 2017)
- Improve handling of spaces in settings files.
- Fix mid_series_breaks=false setting stealing games from required play days.
v2.5 (Aug. 12, 2017)
- Fix schedule output for one-division leagues. (In the settings.ini file, you still have to enter the full league specifier: e.g. SL1D1T10. The generator will, however, output the OOTP-expected format, e.g. T10.) (Thanks to lbj273 for the bug report.)
v2.6 (Aug. 15, 2017)
- Fix bug where series of an unplayed type (e.g. interleague in schedules without interleague play) might be scheduled just before the all-star break if the unplayed series type length is shorter than the lengths for series of ordinary types. (Symptoms: fewer games played than required, incorrect home-away balance. Thanks to lbj273 for the bug report.)
v2.9 (Oct. 2, 2020)
- Fix bug in start-time scheduling when the start time is the same as the end time.
- Fix bug in distributing non-weekly break days where some break days would not be placed until after the final game. The upshot is that a season with 24 games and 24 break days looks like you'd expect: one game, one break day, one game, one break day, and so on.
- Improve scheduling surrounding break days and week-aware scheduling. The upshot is that the scheduler more correctly handles a schedule with games to be played Fri-Sun and Tu-Wed and series lengths of 3 and 2, fitting the series into the appropriate slots. For cases resembling games played Wed-Sun and series lengths 5, 3, and 2, it attempts to balance the schedule so that one possible arrangement of games into the week doesn't dominate the other. There are probably ways to break this, however!
v2.10 (Oct 3, 2020)
- Double round robin scheduler! This means that two common forms of subleague play will work better: four identical divisions, and (e.g.) two divisions of size 4 and two of size 5. There are additional details in the README file.
v2.11 (Oct 4, 2020)
- Bugfixes: crashes on file output (how did those get in there?) and double round robin overscheduling errors on multiple subleague/interleague pools.
To-do
No new features in mind at present.