Question about hand schedules.

tyler · 07-11-2003, 10:44 AM

I created a hand schedule for a fictional league of mine, with only 2 leagues and 6 teams per league. I'm about half way through the first season, and I just thought of something: am I going to have to redo the schedule at the start of the next season? Or will OOTP5 keep the hand schedule I made and use it for the next season, and for every season to come?

Thanks in advance,

-tyler

Henry · 07-11-2003, 10:48 AM

It will keep it unless you generate a new one.

tyler · 07-11-2003, 12:09 PM

Cool, thanks.

-tyler

Riverdome · 07-11-2003, 12:10 PM

tyler,

How did you make your hand schedule? I've considered it but not had much luck actually doing it. Huge Excel worksheet?

seth70liz76 · 07-11-2003, 03:01 PM

I use my Old Miller Associated sched generator and the FPS98 Schedules. I really don't like the ones generated by OOTP--too balanced.

Le Grande Orange · 07-11-2003, 03:41 PM

Hand creating a schedule is not necessarily difficult; it depends to a large degree on the particulars of your league alignments and the scheduling principles you want to follow (i.e. balanced, heavy divisional weighting, light divisional weighting, etc.). It can get somewhat time consuming though, depending on how "perfect" you want it to be.

However, that being said, the longest part by far is entering it into OOTP, as that is a very tedious process. That's why I keep suggesting some form of schedule importer for the game, as that would greatly speed up the process.

The way OOTP works with your schedule file is that it doesn't really tie the games to a specific team, but rather the position of finish within the division/league. Doing it this way allows OOTP to have the same schedule file for each year, but still have a schedule each season which will almost certainly vary some (the only way it wouldn't would be if all the teams in the league finished in identical positions in consecutive years).

clarnzz · 07-11-2003, 03:46 PM

Someone in our league hand created a schedule with unbalanced and interleague since we went to the 4x4 division format.

It worked out very well, 22 division games, 7 games against each of the rest of the teams in each league. and 12 interleague games. Great to know it wont have to be entered again.

tyler · 07-11-2003, 03:54 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Riverdome
tyler,

How did you make your hand schedule? I've considered it but not had much luck actually doing it. Huge Excel worksheet?

Not exactly. I was trying something different, a 42 game schedule, so I did it all in my head.

-tyler

07-11-2003, 10:44 AM	#1
tyler Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 24	Question about hand schedules. I created a hand schedule for a fictional league of mine, with only 2 leagues and 6 teams per league. I'm about half way through the first season, and I just thought of something: am I going to have to redo the schedule at the start of the next season? Or will OOTP5 keep the hand schedule I made and use it for the next season, and for every season to come? Thanks in advance, -tyler

07-11-2003, 12:10 PM	#4
Riverdome All Star Reserve Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 964	tyler, How did you make your hand schedule? I've considered it but not had much luck actually doing it. Huge Excel worksheet? __________________ I was at the first OOTP Conference, where were you?..........

07-11-2003, 03:01 PM	#5
seth70liz76 All Star Starter Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 1,634	I use my Old Miller Associated sched generator and the FPS98 Schedules. I really don't like the ones generated by OOTP--too balanced. __________________ It was a mistake to come back.

07-11-2003, 10:48 AM	#2
Henry Hall of Fame Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 6,498	It will keep it unless you generate a new one.

07-11-2003, 12:09 PM	#3
tyler Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 24	Cool, thanks. -tyler

07-11-2003, 03:41 PM	#6
Le Grande Orange Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Up There Posts: 15,644	Hand creating a schedule is not necessarily difficult; it depends to a large degree on the particulars of your league alignments and the scheduling principles you want to follow (i.e. balanced, heavy divisional weighting, light divisional weighting, etc.). It can get somewhat time consuming though, depending on how "perfect" you want it to be. However, that being said, the longest part by far is entering it into OOTP, as that is a very tedious process. That's why I keep suggesting some form of schedule importer for the game, as that would greatly speed up the process. The way OOTP works with your schedule file is that it doesn't really tie the games to a specific team, but rather the position of finish within the division/league. Doing it this way allows OOTP to have the same schedule file for each year, but still have a schedule each season which will almost certainly vary some (the only way it wouldn't would be if all the teams in the league finished in identical positions in consecutive years).

07-11-2003, 03:46 PM	#7
clarnzz All Star Starter Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Following everyone off a cliff. Posts: 1,522	Someone in our league hand created a schedule with unbalanced and interleague since we went to the 4x4 division format. It worked out very well, 22 division games, 7 games against each of the rest of the teams in each league. and 12 interleague games. Great to know it wont have to be entered again.