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Originally Posted by swrathje
Thank you for offering to look at the schedule file. Please send instructions to attach the file. My league is in 1943, so there's a 154-game schedule. The season began on April 21st and will end on October 3rd. One of the effects of the doubleheaders is that my team has eight off days in August and nine off days in September.
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It's times like these that I feel like a doctor asking a patient "is there anything
else you'd like to tell me?" Clearly, all of this information is relevant to your initial inquiry and would have been helpful to have up front.
So my next question is: are you playing a historical league? If so, then you're probably playing with the historical schedules. Are you playing with historical transactions and/or historical line-ups enabled? If so, then I think you're automatically playing with the as-played schedule. Otherwise, you'd be playing with the schedule that was published in the pre-season. In either case, there's no need to attach the schedule file - I already know what it is.
The fact is, teams played a lot of double-headers in the 1940s. A
lot. That might have had something to do with the travel restrictions put in place due to the war or it might have been an effort to get more fans to come to the ballpark by giving everyone a two-for-one discount. The Cardinals played 33 DHs that year. The Boston Braves, who always seemed to play more twin-bills than anyone else, played 38 DHs, including six in a two-week span. The Philadelphia Athletics played DHs on each of four consecutive days in August. That's just the way it was.
There. Mystery solved.