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Originally Posted by ALB123
Nice to see you in a thread again, joefromchicago!  |
Nice to be seen!
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Originally Posted by ALB123
I felt so bad when I learned MLB took the job away from that husband and wife. I was blown away when I first learned they were responsible for the league schedule...which the created on their dining room table.  |
Yeah, Henry and Holly Stephenson did the schedules by hand for twenty years because computer programs were unsatisfactory. Grantland did a nice little
documentary on them. One modder here, Fishbreath, has been working on and off for about five years on a scheduler - it has been, let's say,
a mixed success.
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Originally Posted by ALB123
On a serious note, what's the problem with OOTP creating schedules each season? For instance, I play as GM of the Yankees and we're in 1992, so still only 2 divisions and no interleague. What does OOTP do that people don't like? I'm not very observant as you can tell from the question.  |
Where to begin?
The in-game scheduler can't handle interleague games. It also doesn't do a very good job with unbalanced schedules. The scheduler often has league-wide off-days, which MLB never does except for the All-Star break. The scheduler won't schedule double-headers and doesn't know when holidays are. It's impossible to rotate among interleauge opponents over successive years - the in-game scheduler has no "memory" for past schedules. The scheduler doesn't know where teams are located, so the Marlins, for instance, might be scheduled to go on a road trip to Seattle, Boston, and Los Angeles and then back to Miami. And finally, the schedules are just boring - the teams all have the same off-days and the same getaway days and every game starts at the same time.
All of those problems are well-known and have been addressed and corrected by a fantastic community of dedicated modders that has contributed well over a thousand schedules customized to users' needs. Nevertheless, people continue to come onto these boards and complain that "I can't get the scheduler to do what I want!" Well, no, you can't, but chances are someone else has already made a schedule that does exactly what you want it to do, or else is happy to make a schedule that will. Sorry to get on my soapbox about this, but it's kinda' frustrating to see someone holding an empty glass and complaining that "I'm thirsty! I can't get anything to drink!" while standing next to a water fountain.
EDIT: I'll add that those comments aren't directed at you, ALB123. If you're doing a replay league, then you probably aren't even using the in-game scheduler. If you're going season-to-season, OOTP will automatically load the appropriate MLB schedule for that year rather than create a new one.