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Originally Posted by thehip41
One thing that will make this not work:
The team numbers don't stay static from year to year.
So in your schedules you have this:
Year 1:
1@7
8@1
Year 2:
7@1
1@8
However, lets say in the first year, your opposite division has
First place Yankees
Second place Red Sox
Year two:
First place Red Sox
Second place Yankees
You can see that you are play two homes series vs one team and two road series vs the other team.
I think you can just make one schedule, and you will play 3 teams at home and 3 teams on the road each year.
I would make it staggers, like plays teams 7,9,11 at home and 8.10.12 on the road. That way, if a team is always near the bottom, you get some variation of H/A
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I really don't think this is true when it comes to custom schedules. Run this test to verify what I am saying. Take a MLB season with the actual schedule . Load the schedule and you will see that all the teams match up with their real life schedule. NOw play the season . At the begin of the next season the teams will rotate on the schedule. You can verify that by looking at the previous years schedule. Team 1 might become team 5 or whatever. The team schedule numbers have changed but I am willing to bet that the actual team number from when the league was created did not change. I ca prove this by loading the next years MLB schedule or any season for the test. You will see the schedule change and then if you compare the match ups in game to that seasons actual match ups you will see that they are correct. This tells me that the match up numbers change in the schedule, not the actual internal team numbers.
I did this test with 8 different schedules and each time got the correct match ups that I expected. I did not do this with fictional schedules because there is no base to compare it with. So my point is if you load a custom schedule each year you will get the matchups that you want based oft the team numbers in the original schedule, Team 1 is still team 1, etc.... I am thinking that perhaps the team numbers are internally assigned by alphabetical order by diviison when you create the league. My only concern is what happens when you change teams from leagues or divisions. I haven't tested this out yet.
If the teams rotated each year in internal ID's then ALL the MLB schedules would not work. Team 1 is always 1, regardless of where they are in the standings the previous year.
Also if I load a custom schedule and team 1 plays 2 and it matches the MLB schedule and all the teams match up to real life schedules then you would expect if you output that schedule from the game after loading it that the in game schedule will also have team 1 vs 2. This is not the case. The exported schedule will have different numbers, but the match ups match the imported schedule. This tells me that OOTP schedule numbers change, but the teams internal number does not.
I do not use OOTP schedules and have not in 10 years +, they are not very good. A lot of players don't care and take what the game gives them. I will never do this. This is why I ran this test. I can confirm that if you have a schedule that changes the match ups the following year that you will get what you expect in match ups - don't worry about the OOTP schedule ID this has no affects on the custom schedule numbering.
This is why I created the utility to change match ups in the schedule. If you let the game do the matchups they will repeat and you may never get all match ups. If you load a custom schedule for the first season, then again you will not get an option on getting all matchups and teams may not play each other ever. With my tool you can change the schedule each year or change the matchups to a different IL or non division opp. I know this is a plug for the utility but ,n obody wants the tool or to give me any feedback or questions on it so that tells me people are content in taking whatever the games gives them after the first season. My utility works best if you are playing only certain divisions or IL divisions and not all each season. The utility allows you to change the match ups. I give up on getting a response on the utility and the template, and will not put them in a schedule request zip file. I will create the schedule, but won't waste the time with the modifier tool for that schedule. If some one requests it when I make the schedule I will gladly supply it. I will use the tool for personal use and when I create multiple versions of the schedules I create. I have done schedules for many years for this game, converted many (300+) from the old format to the new in 2006 and recently came back after 7 years of not doing schedule to help out with the many unanswered requests. I am not trying to be negative - I truly want to help.