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Originally Posted by jazzrack
putting the All-star game at the end of the season works just fine. The only problem is when a tie happens. The all-star game gets played first then the tie-breaker game. And that is only a problem if you find it a problem.
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Thanks for this info - I had not even considered ties that would need to be broken. I assume you are talking about a case with the All-Star Game on the day after the last day of game. Not sure it matters. Anyhoo, in my test I just put the All-Star Game on the Tuesday after the schedule end of the season on Sunday. There were no ties it turned out, so Monday was just an offday, then Tuesday was the All-Star Game, Wednesday & Thursday were offdays, and the playoffs began on Friday. Everything appears to work just fine like jazzrack said.
EDIT: It took a couple tries, but I finally got a tie at the end of the season. Like jazzrack said, the tiebreaker game came after the All-Star Game, which in my case was Wednesday after the Tuesday All-Star Game. The two offdays before the playoffs still happened, and the playoffs began Saturday in that case. Still everything worked fine.
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Originally Posted by CalvinHobbes
Do you create these schedules from scratch? I did that once and it took me the entire weekend, I was trying a shortcut with the schedule creator program. Then I saw all of these posts from you and gave that a shot.
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I do create them from scratch, but having now done so many I have a lot to base things on. My techniques have improved a whole lot with time. I fumbled around at first also using some basic principals I picked up from Le Grande Orange, the actual schedule expert, but I enjoy doing this sort of thing, think I have some knack for it, and have been able to hone the skill fairly well. Plus my work cuts some corners like, for example, trying to always make sure weekend series are balanced home & away and against various opponents and maybe more importantly making travel realistic (though to be fair I have no idea what league & teams could use a schedule I make
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The Stickware program is awesome - I am very impressed with it. But it is just really hard to make good schedules with exactly the ideal number of games against various teams home and away and have the games when you want them. That's the gap I attempt to fill. Generally I try to lay out everything as "mathematically" as possible, then juggle the matchups around in such a way that is generally consistent with most modern MLB scheduling methods.