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1986 MLB schedule files
26 teams, 14 teams in one league, 12 in the other. 162 game schedule.
AL: two 7 team divisions.
78 divisional games (13 against each of the 6 divisional rivals).
84 interdivisional games (12 against each of the 7 teams in the other division).
NL: two 6 team divisions.
90 divisional games (18 games against each of the 5 divisional rivals).
72 interdivisional games (12 against each of the 6 teams in the other division).
Settings for 1986:
Year starts on: Wednesday
Season starts: April 7 (Monday)
All-Star Game: July 15 (Tuesday) at NL (Houston)
Note that the All-Star Game is NOT entered in the schedule files; you'll have to add it manually after you import the schedule.
The attached zip file contains two schedule CSV files for the 1986 MLB season, one the exact copy of the actual 1986 MLB original schedule, and the other a slightly modified version of the schedule which removes the doubleheaders.
The file called "1986exact" contains the exact copy of the original 1986 schedule.
There are 9 doubleheaders in the original schedule:
Sun. May 4: CHN at SFN (day-day)
Sat. June 7: SEA at TEX (twilight-night)
Sun. June 8: CIN at SFN (day-day)
Sun. June 15: PIT at NYN (day-day)
Sun. June 22: HOU at SFN (day-day)
Sun. June 29: ML4 at DET (day-day)
Sun. July 20: ML4 at OAK (day-day)
Sun. Aug. 10: MIN at OAK (day-day)
Fri. Aug. 15: CHN at MON (twilight-night)
The file "1986nodh" has these 9 doubleheaders removed while trying as much as possible to preserve the essence of the original schedule. In most cases I was able to move the second game to an appropriate off day, a day originally idle when the teams met in an earlier or later series. Unfortunately, for the Milwaukee-Detroit twin bill, there were no acceptable dates. So, I was forced to swap the home teams in a series between the clubs in order to provide the needed extra day. However, other than that, the schedule looks very close to the original version, and still includes the occasional odd off day and so forth.
Game times for both files have had day games set as 1 p.m. and night games as 7 p.m. in local time, and then were adjusted for time zones to bring all times into their correct Eastern Time value. For the doubleheaders, 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. local times were for the day twin bills and 5 p.m and 8 p.m. for the twilight-night affairs, and again were subsequently adjusted for time zones.
Enjoy!
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