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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
It's not a bug, it's actually a limitation in how OOTP handles postponed and rescheduled games. As I understand it, for financial engine reasons, clubs have to have their scheduled number of home games.
In real life, when a game couldn't be rescheduled for its original park, it would be played in the other team's park. OOTP can't do this, so the game is "played" in the original club's park, regardless of how odd it might look on the schedule.
There's a further complication in real-life games, in that, starting in 2007, the home club would bat first in some make up games. If, for example, Boston at Oakland was rained out, and couldn't be made up in Oakland, it would be made up in Boston as part of an Oakland at Boston series. But, even though the make up game is being played at Fenway Park, for that make up game Boston would bat first, as if it was the visiting team. This rule change was made to make it somewhat more fair, as the team losing out on a game in its own park would at least still get the chance to bat second. Prior to the rule change, the visiting team would bat first in the make up game as if it was any other regular game. This rule was also adopted by a few of the minor leagues.
OOTP doesn't recreate this rule. It also doesn't recreate single admission, two-for-one doubleheaders (a long-standing part of baseball history), nor does it allow clubs to finish with differing numbers of games played due to some postponed games not being made up.
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Before I knew how too use the schedule evaluator,I always had teams finish with different amount of games. I would delete games and move them to other dates,sometimes forgetting too do so(or clicking the wrong teams: example old game Bos at NY Yankees,game postponed and moved too another date however I clicked the Mets instead of Yankees giving Mets an extra game and one less game for the Yankees).
When you have 200 plus team leagues,it's very easy too make mistakes with the schedule editor if you don't check too make sure each team has the same amount of games before the season ends.
Also.for some unknown reason,sometimes the evaluator would stop working and finding mistakes was more difficult.