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Originally Posted by thehef
An important follow up on how split schedules work in OOTP. To cut to the chase, if the teams in a league are scheduled for different amounts of total games played (a common occurrence in early minor leagues) OOTP does not split the schedule at the same point for each team. Rather, it's splits the schedule for each team based upon the number of games on each team's schedule. I'll use the 1904 PCL as an example:
- I have a 1904 PCL schedule (that I will post soon) that has total number of games per team ranging from a low of 226 (LA & Portland) to a high of 241 (Oakland).
- When Oakland reached 121 games, it's next game - a loss to LA - was counted in the 2nd half standings. Since no other team had reached it's own halfway point of the season, Oakland was the only team listed in the 2nd half standings (with a record of 0-1).
- A few days later, Seattle reached it's halfway point, and the following day the 2nd half standings showed Seattle on top at 1-0, all other teams at 0-0, and Oakland at 0-3.
- So basically, by the end of the full season I'll end up with probably a couple dozen games where the result counted in the first half for one team and in the second half for the other team.
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Well, that's just crazy
Of course, that's not how it was done in real life. You can't have one team playing in the second half of a season and its opponent still playing in the first half. Frankly, I'm shocked that OOTP handles split seasons this way.
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Originally Posted by thehef
If, however, Split Schedule is enabled on the Options panel and there is no "Split" indicator in the schedule file, then rather than calculating each team's number of games and splitting each team's schedule at each team's halfway point, OOTP would find the total number of days in a schedule file (in my example above it is 249; in the 2018 Northwest League schedule that is delivered with OOTP it is 81) and divided that number in half to determine the day in the schedule that it would be split in half. In this manner, the split would apply to all teams regardless of how many games each team has played at that point.
Second, regardless of the manner in which the Split Date is determined by OOTP - whether it finds the split date in the schedule or calculates it based upon the number of days, OOTP should add a League Event that would appear in the PLAY dropdown, under the AUTO-PLAY TO EVENT sub-heading. Something like 6/29/1904: 1st Half of Season Ends.
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Completely agree, and it's well past time for OOTP to adopt something like this for split-season leagues. If any added impetus is needed, it should be remembered that the Negro Leagues usually had split seasons, so if OOTP wants to have authentic Negro Leagues (consistent with the MLB decision that the Negro Leagues were major leagues), then there should be some mechanism to recreate their split-season schedules accurately.