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Originally posted by Le Grande Orange
Game Start Times suggestions
Just wanted to make this note about the start times for games in the schedules and whether they are day or night contests. I've noticed some have opted to make all the games night games, and while certainly an easy choice to implement, technically it is somewhat unrealistic.
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I was waiting until this thread fell from the front page to reply to this so then I could cheap-bump it by replying. Took longer than I thought.
Yeah, I've just taken the copout of setting all the times to 7pm ET. And I don't even care about ET - it's just 7:05 looks good. It is a whole lot easier in a spreadsheet to fill-down "7" than, well, anything. Really it would not be hard in a spreadsheet to set it up to give weekend day games some to all the time. Some weekday day games might not be too hard to add either. But once the spreadsheet is saved to csv, those would only be one shot deals, as the next year there is the whole issue of the weekdays moving.
Plus there is the issue of time zones. Except for my MLB-based one, my leagues are mostly small area (one time zone), so in my cases same times are actually good. I don't like the idea of west coast & east coast games starting at the same time, but if you're making a generic schedule, you have no idea of where the teams are that correspond to the team numbers. Plus if you are like me and juggle the team numbers from year to year things can get messier.
In summary, better start times are known to be on the wishlist, under consideration in my case, but not likely to be a regular feature. Maybe if there was a special request.
Ah, but that leads to the other issue. Since 6.02a, I've actually been playing the game, finally importing and running with a V5 league. Thus, I have had almost no interest in creating schedules and haven't worked on any. But I'm bound to want to come back to this. The recent requests under consideration are the 6-team 140-game and the 10-team 154-game. Both seem relatively easy, especially compared to that 30-team 165-game beast. I would probably go with the 6-team first since I'd have to think about "PCL-type" for the other.