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Originally Posted by No Pepper
Having read thehef's report on OOTP handling of split season schedules, I'm a bit split  regarding the translating of published negro league schedules into OOTP format that joefromchicago provided me years ago, and how they'll play out in the game.
I would like to add these to our repository here soon but would also like them to be usable. Any suggestions going forward?
Nothing is perfect regarding the published schedules and I have a couple of seasons I cobbled up a schedule of "as played" games. I could certainly create additional schedules that would both give a sense of the season but also strictly adhere to balance and satisfy OOTP quirks and or inadequacies. |
Glad to see that this project is still on your radar screen. I eagerly await the results of your work. I may have a couple more newspaper items that might help out, and cmcgill might also be able to help. One suggestion: rather than post NeL schedules here, I recommend starting a new thread devoted solely to them (this is, after all, for
minor league schedules, and the Negro Leagues are
major 
).
As for cobbling together schedules from a variety of sources, or having hybrid "scheduled plus as-played" schedules, I'd say "do whatever it takes!" Yes, it's not a perfect solution, and it's frustrating that OOTP doesn't handle split seasons very well, but we might never get anything better, and I think there's a growing interest in the community to re-play NeL seasons.