Honestly, the way I start every schedule that I make is just by plopping matchups down at random and not thinking about fitting it into a pattern or anything. I always prefer schedules in my OOTP games that don't have patterns (like, everyone plays interleague on such-and-such weekend, etc.) & this approach has always worked for me. Just takes a little bit of Excel magic to make sure you always know which matchups you haven't used yet, & how many teams/divisions/whatever you have left in each time slot.
In this case just winging it worked out perfectly, I only had to go back a couple of times to remove matchups that didn't fit anymore.
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