Schedule Request - 32 Teams (2 SL/8D/4T) 156 games

[DJP53916]

Hello everyone. I have a schedule request for whoever is willing to take this on.

I have 32 teams, 2 SL with 4 divisions each (8 divisions total with 4 teams in each).

Here is the schedule block:

--156 games total.
--78 Home and 78 Away. All series 3 games in length. 1 off day (Usually Monday) per week with all teams off the same day each week. (except All-Star Game week, with 4 consecutive off days. I'd prefer, but don't require the ASG Break to be 10 July 2023 - 13 July 2023).
--I'd also prefer to have each team play typically play 6 consecutive home and 6 consecutive away games, but a 9-game home stand or 9-game road trip is fine if necessary to make this work.

--Intraleague/Intradivision: 36 total games. 18 H and 18 A (2 series x 3 H, 2 series x 3 A).
--Intraleague/Interdivision: 72 total games. 36 H and 36 A (3 H and 3A).
--Interleague games: 48 total games. 24 H and 24 A (3 H vs. half of the teams, 3 A vs. other half of the teams).

--Seaon Start: 27 March 2023


Game times don't matter, I'm just looking for a good, mostly balanced schedule.

Thank you in advance for anyone who works on this,

[gmo]

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# 32 team schedule, 156 games
# Designed for the following configuration:
# 2 subleagues, each with 4 divisions of 4 teams
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# 12 games against 3 other teams in division (6H/6A)
# 6 games against 12 other teams in subleague (3H/3A)
# 3 games against each team in other league (3H or 3A)
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# All 3-games series with Monday 
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# No homestands or roadtrips longer than 12 games
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# Teams play 13 weekend series at home
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# All game times set at 7:05pm
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# Season begins first Tuesday on or after March 28
# Season ends late September / early October
# Season spans 185 days
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# All-Star Game set for first Tuesday on or after July 11 (day num 106)
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# Built 2023-07-07
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[gmo]

I put in some extra effort on the homestand/roadtrip aspect for the above but think I only ended up about where I usually do.

There is no way to get to (almost) all 2-series. The 2023 MLB schedules comes out to about:

• 1 series - 18%
• 2 series - 65%
• 3 series - 16%
• 4 series - 1%

The above-attached is about:

• 1 series - 39%
• 2 series - 38%
• 3 series - 15%
• 4 series - 8%

Those numbers are for the homestands/roadtrips. So having the same percentage for each of 1-series & 2-series means that about twice as many games are in the 2-series. From those percentages the number of games in 3-series sets is more than in 1-series though less than in 2-series.

I feel like have gotten better over time at some other factors like balancing weekend series home/away and decent dispersion of series against opponents. But optimal homestands/roadtrips remains a struggle. If I could get consistently to something like 25% 1-series and 50% 2-series I would be very pleased.

[DJP53916]

Originally Posted by gmo

I put in some extra effort on the homestand/roadtrip aspect for the above but think I only ended up about where I usually do.

There is no way to get to (almost) all 2-series. The 2023 MLB schedules comes out to about:

• 1 series - 18%
• 2 series - 65%
• 3 series - 16%
• 4 series - 1%

The above-attached is about:

• 1 series - 39%
• 2 series - 38%
• 3 series - 15%
• 4 series - 8%

Those numbers are for the homestands/roadtrips. So having the same percentage for each of 1-series & 2-series means that about twice as many games are in the 2-series. From those percentages the number of games in 3-series sets is more than in 1-series though less than in 2-series.

I feel like have gotten better over time at some other factors like balancing weekend series home/away and decent dispersion of series against opponents. But optimal homestands/roadtrips remains a struggle. If I could get consistently to something like 25% 1-series and 50% 2-series I would be very pleased.

Once I get to my computer, I will look it over more, but this likely will work very well for me.

I appreciate you for taking the time to do this for me.

[itsmb8]

GMO

I very much appreciate you making this schedule. This will absolutely be what I use when I expand to 32 in my save.

One request I have that is really miniscule and borderline irrelevant: would it be possible to have the rotating interleague home/away designation be division-based? So for example, for the NL and AL having the East West South and Central divisions, the NL Central would play the AL West and Central at home year 1 and on the road year 2?

I feel like it would help immensely with competitive balance since division rivals would essentially all have the exact same schedule.

[bwburke94]

That would break the year-to-year rotation.