Schedule Disaster!

Simmo13 · 06-22-2005, 07:47 PM

First fictional season approaching all-star break. Looking more closely at computer generated schedule and have just realised the extent of its looniness. The league is 2x8 teams and the schedule generated a 162 game season with teams playing each other 22, 23 or 24 times. I was prepared to rationalise that working on the completely erroneous assumption that the home and away games would be either 11 or 12 for every team v team but I've just come across one example of 24 games where one team is away for 19 of those!!
What happens if you try to delete games that have already been played, does it screw everything up?

Steve Kuffrey · 06-22-2005, 09:01 PM

I'd say so, if you delete already played games.

Simmo13 · 06-23-2005, 05:25 AM

Thanks, yes of course .I posted the message in a moment of real annoyance having realised that I should have checked all this much earlier in the season!!

If I reset the league does that take it back to day one with players on original teams or on current teams? I can then presumably import a sensible 154 game schedule.

SandMan · 06-23-2005, 06:12 AM

You will be better off to just play out the first season with the quirky schedule and import a schedule for the second season. Just one thing though, if you go from 162 to 154 games, your magic number and projections will be off by the 8 games. It is important to setup you league with the number of games you intend to play....

I would just let the schedule stay for the first year and think of the teams with 19/5 splits as having thier stadium fixed for repairs or that some kind of event was going on in the stadium for those dates.......the in game schedule maker is crap and I grab one from the mods site for every league that I do..

Simmo13 · 06-23-2005, 06:44 AM

SandMan, thanks for the prompt response. I agree . Far less time consuming to rationalise the current situation than start again, particularly since every other aspect of the game is better than I'd hoped. I can do a bit of schedule tweaking to minimise the eccentricities!!

gmo · 06-23-2005, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by SandMan

Just one thing though, if you go from 162 to 154 games, your magic number and projections will be off by the 8 games. It is important to setup you league with the number of games you intend to play....

This can be fixed in the game. If you start with 162 games in the league then simply import or copy in a 154-game schedule, the game does still think that the season is 162 games. But if on the Edit Schedule screen you generate a 154-game schedule in the game, the game will learn the new length for the league season. Then you can just replace that with an imported or otherwise generated schedule and the magic numbers and projections will be correctly calculated.

Le Grande Orange · 06-23-2005, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Simmo13

First fictional season approaching all-star break. Looking more closely at computer generated schedule and have just realised the extent of its looniness. The league is 2x8 teams and the schedule generated a 162 game season with teams playing each other 22, 23 or 24 times. I was prepared to rationalise that working on the completely erroneous assumption that the home and away games would be either 11 or 12 for every team v team but I've just come across one example of 24 games where one team is away for 19 of those!!

Heh, you should take a look at the real schedules used by the South Atlantic League and Southern League minor leagues, they're every bit as weird. The Eastern League has also, starting this year, switched from using a proper symmetrical divisionally weighted schedule into using a uneven mess.

Of course, the schedules used in the majors since 1998 haven't been all that much better either.

If you want schedules that are more fair in their competitive distribution of games, try either this thread http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ad.php?t=63714 for fictional schedules, or this thread http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ad.php?t=85752 for historical MLB ones.

Simmo13 · 06-24-2005, 05:31 AM

Truth is indeed stranger than OOTP fiction. Actually I've spent a very pleasant hour with an old Scottish friend of mine coming up with reasons why some teams couldn't use their home parks for extended periods of time.

06-22-2005, 07:47 PM	#1
Simmo13 All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: those blue remembered hills Posts: 955	Schedule Disaster! First fictional season approaching all-star break. Looking more closely at computer generated schedule and have just realised the extent of its looniness. The league is 2x8 teams and the schedule generated a 162 game season with teams playing each other 22, 23 or 24 times. I was prepared to rationalise that working on the completely erroneous assumption that the home and away games would be either 11 or 12 for every team v team but I've just come across one example of 24 games where one team is away for 19 of those!! What happens if you try to delete games that have already been played, does it screw everything up?

06-22-2005, 09:01 PM	#2
Steve Kuffrey Administrator Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: S.E. TN - Georgia born and raised Posts: 17,023	I'd say so, if you delete already played games. __________________ Steve Kuffrey DABS Atlanta Braves - 2008 Eastern Division Champ *DBLC Atlanta Braves - 2011, 2014 East Division Champ, 2012, 2013 NL Wildcard Baseball Maelstrom-Montreal Expos-2013 Tourney winner, 2014 WC Team Sparky's League - Tampa Bay D'Rays Epicenter Baseball League - Astros 2014 The CBL Rewind - Phillies '95

06-23-2005, 05:25 AM	#3
Simmo13 All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: those blue remembered hills Posts: 955	Thanks, yes of course .I posted the message in a moment of real annoyance having realised that I should have checked all this much earlier in the season!! If I reset the league does that take it back to day one with players on original teams or on current teams? I can then presumably import a sensible 154 game schedule.

06-23-2005, 06:12 AM	#4
SandMan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,946	You will be better off to just play out the first season with the quirky schedule and import a schedule for the second season. Just one thing though, if you go from 162 to 154 games, your magic number and projections will be off by the 8 games. It is important to setup you league with the number of games you intend to play.... I would just let the schedule stay for the first year and think of the teams with 19/5 splits as having thier stadium fixed for repairs or that some kind of event was going on in the stadium for those dates.......the in game schedule maker is crap and I grab one from the mods site for every league that I do..

06-23-2005, 06:44 AM	#5
Simmo13 All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: those blue remembered hills Posts: 955	SandMan, thanks for the prompt response. I agree . Far less time consuming to rationalise the current situation than start again, particularly since every other aspect of the game is better than I'd hoped. I can do a bit of schedule tweaking to minimise the eccentricities!!

06-24-2005, 05:31 AM	#8
Simmo13 All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: those blue remembered hills Posts: 955	Truth is indeed stranger than OOTP fiction. Actually I've spent a very pleasant hour with an old Scottish friend of mine coming up with reasons why some teams couldn't use their home parks for extended periods of time.