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1931 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE

Teams:
Hollywood Stars
Los Angeles Angels
Mission (San Francisco) Reds
Oakland Oaks
Portland Beavers
Sacramento Senators
San Francisco Seals
Seattle Indians

Schedule Characteristics:

SCHEDULE type="ILN_BGY_G187_T8_C_" inter_league="0" balanced_games="1" games_per_team="187" start_month="4" start_day="7" start_day_of_week="3"

Each team plays 187 games. Teams play between 92 and 95 home/away games, and teams play each other between 24 and 30 times during the season.
Season starts on April 7th and ends on October 4th. Teams typically play every day, Tuesday through Sunday (with doubleheaders on Sundays).

The PCL had a split schedule in 1931, however, this wasn't decided until the week before the split occured. The first half of the season ended after the games on July 6th.
OOTP will split the schedule after games of Tuesday, July 7th, which (if no rainouts) is after each team has played 93 games.

-No games scheduled on Mondays (typically a travel day) except for doubleheaders on Labor Day, Sept 7th.
-Double-headers on Sundays and holidays - Memorial Day (5/30), Independence Day (7/4), Labor Day (9/7), and Admission Day (9/9).
-Weekday afternoon and Saturday afternoon games typically start at 1:30 pm or 2:00 pm. Double-header games start at 1:30 pm noon and 4:00 pm.
-Weekday evening and Saturday evening games typically start at 8pm.

Sacramento scheduled to host games - primarily on Sundays - at Stockton on 4/12, 4/19, 5/17, 5/24, 6/14, 7/4, 7/5, 7/12, 7/19, 8/16, 9/6, 9/7, 9/9, 9/13, 9/20, 10/4 (Morning games of a doubleheaders, with the 2nd game to be played in Sacramento in the afternoon.)
Note, however, that Stockton's park suffered significant fire damage on 6/13. Therefore Sacramento did not play games in Stockton in June, July or August, but returned to Stockton on 9/6.

Notes on start times:
1) Actual start times for most teams not known; times (above) are based upon start times used at Wrigley Field for games hosted by Stars and Angels. Day vs Night games are fairly accurate, though, based upon newspaper accounts.
2) All teams started the season with weekday afternoon games being the norm. However, the plan was to switch primarily to night games as soon as possible. Each team's first hosted night games were as follows (and reflected in this schedule file):

HWD - 5/7
LAL - 5/12
MIS - 5/5
OAK - 5/6
POR - 5/26
SAC - 5/12
SFO - 4/24
SEA - 5/26

NOTE: To get correct time zone & start times to appear in OOTP, it may be needed to edit Mission's city to San Francisco (and not Mission, Texas) and Hollywood's city to Los Angeles (and not Hollywood, Florida).

As info-only, the schedule for the PCL championship series was as follows:

Tue 10/6: HWD @ SFS, night
Wed 10/7: HWD @ SFS, night
Thu 10/8: HWD @ SFS, night
Fri 10/9: travel-by-train (HWD departed in the morning, SFS departed in the evening)
Sat 10/10: SFS @ HWD, 8 pm
*Sun 10/11: SFS @ HWD, probably 1:30 pm
*Mon 10/12: SFS @ HWD, probably 8 pm or 8:15 pm
*Tue 10/13: SFS @ HWD, probably 8 pm or 8:15 pm

*games were not necessary due to HWD's 4-game sweep