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Scipio Africanus · 06-05-2020, 06:56 PM

I mostly play fictional and am trying to figure out how many games my new league should have per season. I find 100+game seasons to be a chore because I play out my team's games and, with 162 games, most divisions seem to be well decided by the 2/3 mark, often much earlier.

With 5-team divisions, is each team playing the others 6 times enough to be at all meaningful? Or would that be almost the same as a coin flip? How about 8, or 12? That's the sort of thing I'm trying to find out but I didn't turn up anything online.

Thinking about it does make me wonder how significant baseball tournaments are. If two teams only play each other 1 to 3 times, isn't the victor decided almost randomly?

06-05-2020, 06:56 PM	#3
Scipio Africanus Major Leagues Join Date: Jun 2019 Posts: 374	I mostly play fictional and am trying to figure out how many games my new league should have per season. I find 100+game seasons to be a chore because I play out my team's games and, with 162 games, most divisions seem to be well decided by the 2/3 mark, often much earlier. With 5-team divisions, is each team playing the others 6 times enough to be at all meaningful? Or would that be almost the same as a coin flip? How about 8, or 12? That's the sort of thing I'm trying to find out but I didn't turn up anything online. Thinking about it does make me wonder how significant baseball tournaments are. If two teams only play each other 1 to 3 times, isn't the victor decided almost randomly? Last edited by Scipio Africanus; 06-05-2020 at 06:57 PM.