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All good ideas, LGO. Thanks!
I really enjoy the schedule-building puzzle, so I moved away from fitting into the current M-W/T-Th and F-Su structure. I still have series that start and end together league-wide, they just don't always start on the same days of the week each week, and might start/end on a weekend or span two weeks. I'm OK with 5-game series instead of playing 2 & 3, and I actually think longer series with less travel is a nod to realism for a longer season, with less travel costs for owners and less jet lag for players.
Having one team play outside the division when the rest of the division plays itself isn't too bad if the divisional games all happen in 15-series stretches, where each team plays a 14-series round robin and has 1 series as the odd team out, against the other division's odd team out. So, there's a 15-series intradivision block at the start, a 15-series intradivision block at the end, and the remaining interdivison games played in between (excluding the two series each team plays in the intradivision blocks).
It's still structured, just not the way MLB does it today. But I have spent untold hours thinking about fictional takes on the real MLB schedule as well, so I really do appreciate the input and hope others use your advice.
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