Request: 32 Teams, 5-Game Series

[Polin_Happ]

I am looking for help to make a schedule for my fictional league.
Structure is: 32 Teams (2S, 2D, 8T) 150 games


For each team, I'd like them to play two 5-game series (home and away) vs. 7 division rivals, one 5-game series vs 8 intra-league rivals, and one 5-game series against 4 teams from each inter-league division.


Three series and then an off-day if possible. Have SL1 begin the year on day 1 and SL2 begin the year on day 2 so there's no league-wide off-days. Prefer to have divisional matchups spread out across the year.

[gmo]

Do you want an All-Star Game? If seems like no since not wanting league-wide offdays. If yes, that could done by slotted in extra days at the middle break or one after.

But the scheme of starting the subleagues offset by a day... The problem there is that the interleague series then cannot line up exactly.

The interleague series can be positions adjacent to offdays so that they can be slid one way or the other. In those cases it becomes chunks of 4 and 2 series separated by an offday rather than always 3 and 3.

Or that can just be done in general with the subleagues starting at the same time. Then, e.g., the third series after which the first offday would fall - some of those could be slid forward a day to have the teams off before it rather than after.

[Polin_Happ]

Thanks gmo, great point about the interleague series. Your solution of the 4 and 2 series seems great. And yes, I would like an All-Star game and HR derby and all that. I'm not picky about game times either. If it's all the same, I guess I'd like day games for weekends and evening games for weekdays.

[gmo]

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# 32 team schedule, 150 games
# Designed for the following configuration:
# 2 subleagues, each with 2 divisions of 8 teams
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# 10 games against each other team in division (5H/5A)
# 5 games against each in other division of subleague (5H or 5A)
# 5 games against 4 teams in each division of other subleague (5H or 5A)
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# All 5-game series
# Offdays average after every third series
# but staggered so teams sometimes play two or four series between offdays
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# Homestands and roadtrips as long as 20 games (4 series)
# All-Star break counted as ending homestands/roadtrips
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# All weekday game times set at 6:05pm
# Weekend game times set at 2:05pm
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# Season begins first Monday of April
# Season ends first Sunday on or after September 8
# Season spans 161 days
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# All-Star Game first Thursday on or after June 20 (season day number 81)
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# Built 2026-05-22
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