Super Noob Question about baseball

[kultrva]

So in the MLB there are 30 teams. Why is the league split 16-14 as opposed to 15-15? I figure there must be a reason since OOTP won't allow leagues with an odd number of teams per sub-league.

Anybody care to enlighten me on this topic? Thanks.

[jbergey22]

Originally Posted by kultrva

So in the MLB there are 30 teams. Why is the league split 16-14 as opposed to 15-15? I figure there must be a reason since OOTP won't allow leagues with an odd number of teams per sub-league.

Anybody care to enlighten me on this topic? Thanks.

Too balance the schedule since interleague play is pretty rare during the season.

7 AL games, 8 NL games. If you had them even there would have to be an interleague game basically most days.

I havent done the math to know if it could work out if they did 15/15 but I suppose it makes it easier just to keep leagues in even numbers.

[kultrva]

Thanks for the reply

[jbergey22]

Originally Posted by kultrva

Thanks for the reply

You are welcome.

I havent really went through scheduling options much in OOTP. Is there no option for a 15/15 set up with more interleague games? It would be very possible to create a schedule of a 15/15 league if say you had 60 interleague games per team Id think.

[kultrva]

Couldn't you do it this way? --- 15 AL teams, 15 NL teams. Every day one team per sub-league sits out, leaving 14 AL and 14 NL playing. That makes 7 AL games and 7 NL games per day without interleague play.

Just a thought.

[jbergey22]

Originally Posted by kultrva

Couldn't you do it this way? --- 15 AL teams, 15 NL teams. Every day one team per sub-league sits out, leaving 14 AL and 14 NL playing. That makes 7 AL games and 7 NL games per day without interleague play.

Just a thought.

Im sure that would work. It would be difficult to make that schedule though in real world. In the game in might work ok because you dont have to worry about travel as much.

[Chicagofan76]

15/15 split u would have 1 team off each day of the week, so u would have 5-6 off days per week...forgot who wrote teh article several yrs ago about that my guess would be Tim Kurkjian or Buster Olney when Baseball Weekly was still around.

[RchW]

Originally Posted by kultrva

So in the MLB there are 30 teams. Why is the league split 16-14 as opposed to 15-15? I figure there must be a reason since OOTP won't allow leagues with an odd number of teams per sub-league.

Anybody care to enlighten me on this topic? Thanks.

I run a 15/15 MLB with no problems. Just move one of the NL west teams to the AL west.

It's very nice to have all 5 team divisions.

[jbergey22]

Originally Posted by Chicagofan76

15/15 split u would have 1 team off each day of the week, so u would have 5-6 off days per week...forgot who wrote teh article several yrs ago about that my guess would be Tim Kurkjian or Buster Olney when Baseball Weekly was still around.

It could be done you would just have teams with days off in the middle of a series. Instead of the standard Mon-Thur days off a team might have to take a day off on a Saturday which Im sure they wouldnt approve of for financial reasons. In OOTP it seems you could do it if you really wanted to.

[Chicagofan76]

Originally Posted by jbergey22

It could be done you would just have teams with days off in the middle of a series. Instead of the standard Mon-Thur days off a team might have to take a day off on a Saturday which Im sure they wouldnt approve of for financial reasons. In OOTP it seems you could do it if you really wanted to.

in game it works great i always move Pittsburgh to the AL central and move KC to the West. when i play a game with the 30 teams.

i'll try to find the article i was thinking of after American Idol

[Chicagofan76]

this isnt the article i wanted but it makes some interesting points on daily interleague

Fixing Three Major League Problems with Major League Baseball | Bleacher Report

[RchW]

Originally Posted by Chicagofan76

15/15 split u would have 1 team off each day of the week, so u would have 5-6 off days per week...forgot who wrote teh article several yrs ago about that my guess would be Tim Kurkjian or Buster Olney when Baseball Weekly was still around.

Wrong there is one interleague game per day in the schedule. This is not rocket science.

[kultrva]

Originally Posted by Chicagofan76

this isnt the article i wanted but it makes some interesting points on daily interleague

Fixing Three Major League Problems with Major League Baseball | Bleacher Report

That is a superb article. The DH vs non-DH issue really bothers me. Like he said, if you're gonna use the DH for one league it's absurd not to do it for the other.

[RchW]

Originally Posted by jbergey22

It could be done you would just have teams with days off in the middle of a series. Instead of the standard Mon-Thur days off a team might have to take a day off on a Saturday which Im sure they wouldnt approve of for financial reasons. In OOTP it seems you could do it if you really wanted to.

Monday Thursday off days just like real life.

[jbergey22]

Originally Posted by RchW

Monday Thursday off days just like real life.

Are you talking about the 15/15 or the 6X5 division format?

I guess it wouldnt really matter.

Thats cool that you could fit in it I was wondering if it was possible. So basically you are starting the season with interleague and ending with interleague and it works out so no team has like a 3 game break at any point without oddities such as The Yankees playing at Pittsburgh 1 day and flying to San Fran for a 2 games series followed by heading back east to take on the Marlins for a game?

[omniart]

Originally Posted by Chicagofan76

i always move Pittsburgh to the AL central and move KC to the West.

Pittsburgh in the AL? Outrageous! It's one of the classic NL teams! Move Milwaukee.

[Chicagofan76]

Originally Posted by omniart

Pittsburgh in the AL? Outrageous! It's one of the classic NL teams! Move Milwaukee.

I know but I move Pit for 1 reason only it splits up the 2 Penn State teams so they can play there 6 games in interleague. Plus theres more Cubs fans in Milwaukee then there r Sox fans, so Cubs playing the Brewers in Miller is another home series.

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by kultrva

So in the MLB there are 30 teams. Why is the league split 16-14 as opposed to 15-15? I figure there must be a reason since OOTP won't allow leagues with an odd number of teams per sub-league.

Anybody care to enlighten me on this topic? Thanks.

The answer is that, in order to avoid having three days off in a row (which upsets the daily pattern of baseball play, not to mention being prohibited by the CBA except for the All-Star Break), there'd have to be at least one interleague series always taking place. MLB prefers to keep interleague series concentrated into specific parts of the season so as to make them more 'special' events.

Originally Posted by RchW

Wrong there is one interleague game per day in the schedule. This is not rocket science.

I remember working something out a few years ago where it was possible (theoretically at least) to have a 15-15 setup and not have an interleague series going on all the time, nor requiring a team to have three (or even four) days off in a row. It was possible to have, for part of the schedule, only a single weekend interleague series. This could be done by using some two-game series and giving teams two consecutive off days. The way it'd work in the first part of the week a pair of teams would get two days off in a row, then a different pair of teams would get the next two days off in a row, then all the teams would play on the weekend with one interleague series taking place ("The interleague series of the week!" for advertising purposes).

I never worked up the idea in enough detail to see if it'd work for the full season schedule though...