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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
One other thing to note about OOTP's postponement feature is that clubs will still nevertheless play out their full slate of scheduled games, regardless of how many postponements there are. That is, all postponed games are made up.
While that is nearly always the case currently at the major league level, it certainly isn't the case at the minor league level, nor was it the case at the major league level in the past. Teams sometimes finish the season with differing numbers of games played due to some games not being made up.
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I have data.
The percentage of clubs in the named leagues, for the 2001-2016 time period, which lost either 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6+ games from its full schedule due to postponed games not being made up (i.e. the games were cancelled). The ten full-season and two short-season leagues are included, with MLB as a reference.
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0 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6+
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MLB 92.1 7.5 0.4 - - - -
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INT 58.9 24.1 11.6 4.5 0.9 - -
PCL 60.9 23.8 7.8 2.7 2.3 1.6 0.8
EAS 58.3 29.7 9.4 2.6 - - -
SOU 34.4 30.6 18.8 11.3 2.5 0.6 1.9
TEX 61.7 22.7 8.6 4.7 1.6 0.8 -
CAL 95.6 3.8 0.6 - - - -
CAR 32.0 32.8 23.4 7.8 2.3 1.6 -
FSL 9.4 12.5 14.6 14.6 10.4 15.1 23.4
MID 22.7 38.7 17.6 12.2 5.5 2.1 1.3
SAL 22.3 30.2 21.9 9.9 10.7 2.5 2.5
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NYP 34.4 39.3 20.1 3.6 2.7 - -
NWL 92.2 6.3 1.6 - - - -
As you can see, there is considerable variety in the degree to which clubs in the various leagues miss out on games from their schedule due to postponed games not being made up. (Few teams in the Florida State League, for example, play out their full 140-game schedule, and a good portion lose 6 or more games.)