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bwburke94 · 04-22-2019, 03:52 AM

There are two errors in this pack that could be cleaned up in a revision:

The start date is wrong; MLB starts on the first Thursday on or after March 27, not March 28. However, the March 28 date is consistent with the in-game start date, as OOTP 20 also has it wrong, so I'm not sure whether this one needs to be fixed.
OOTP 13 and onward use the team's time zone to determine game time. So if a Pacific Time Zone team's home game is set to start at "2205" in the schedule file, it will start at 22:05 Pacific Time, aka 01:05 the next day Eastern Time. That means time zones are being double-counted.

As for individual games that need to be changed to account for real-life circumstances of the 2019 schedule that aren't recreated here (holidays and the like):

Move 4/15 BAL@BOS (Patriot's Day) to 8/15 at night
Move 7/1 KC@TOR (Canada Day) to 6/27 at night
Move 7/25 NYY@BOS to 6/28 at night to avoid consecutive off days (real life London series)

(Also, a home/away flip or league flip of this pack could be interesting to create, because the team-based start times make it impossible to just flip the teams manually. This also matches your old 30-team pack, which had a home/away flip for 30 total schedules.)

04-22-2019, 03:52 AM	#4
bwburke94 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Belchertown, MA, USA Posts: 4,443	There are two errors in this pack that could be cleaned up in a revision: The start date is wrong; MLB starts on the first Thursday on or after March 27, not March 28. However, the March 28 date is consistent with the in-game start date, as OOTP 20 also has it wrong, so I'm not sure whether this one needs to be fixed. OOTP 13 and onward use the team's time zone to determine game time. So if a Pacific Time Zone team's home game is set to start at "2205" in the schedule file, it will start at 22:05 Pacific Time, aka 01:05 the next day Eastern Time. That means time zones are being double-counted. As for individual games that need to be changed to account for real-life circumstances of the 2019 schedule that aren't recreated here (holidays and the like): Move 4/15 BAL@BOS (Patriot's Day) to 8/15 at night Move 7/1 KC@TOR (Canada Day) to 6/27 at night Move 7/25 NYY@BOS to 6/28 at night to avoid consecutive off days (real life London series) (Also, a home/away flip or league flip of this pack could be interesting to create, because the team-based start times make it impossible to just flip the teams manually. This also matches your old 30-team pack, which had a home/away flip for 30 total schedules.) Last edited by bwburke94; 06-08-2019 at 03:54 PM.