Balanced vs Unbalanced Schedules

[PSUColonel]

I have never really fooled around with schedules too much, but I am trying to figure out what's going on here.

I have the typical series length to 3 games, yet when not using a balanced schedule, most of the series are 3 or 4 game series as opposed to 3.

When I do use a balanced schedule, it seems to bring the series lengths back in line to 3 games, but I am also assuming teams' won't play division opponents as often.

Any thoughts?

[bwburke94]

Because OOTP's schedule generator cannot schedule unbalanced schedules, it loads a schedule from the /schedules folder. The schedule it happened to load is one with occasional 4-game series.

[NoOne]

you may have more choices in the schedule folder.

[PSUColonel]

Ok, I told it to generate its own schedules...bad idea I guess...is there a way to revert, and get ootp to start loading realistic schedules?

[PSUColonel]

This might seem like a stupid question, but I cannot seem to figure out how to manually load schedules??

[Bluenoser]

Originally Posted by PSUColonel

This might seem like a stupid question, but I cannot seem to figure out how to manually load schedules??

Go to league setup, select "Edit Schedule", then from the drop down options select import schedule.

[PSUColonel]

got it...thanks

[jmknpk2]

I started dabbling in schedules over the last few years. The difficulty in getting a perfect schedule (at lest with my preferences) has led me to creating my leagues with the desired schedule as the highest priority.

For example, I currently made a league where I wanted 2 (home and away) five game series against each division opponent. I tailored the number of teams in each division (and sub-leagues) to make the scheduling easier.

What I've discovered is that it is relatively easy to generate a schedule where almost all the teams are playing. But then there is one team that has no opponents which meet my preferences (e.g. it has already played all the other division opponents). That seems to be the tricky difficult part for me. Not having a team sit out 3 days, waiting for a viable opponent.

I found several helpful web sites regarding baseball and sports scheduling, having nothing to do with OOTP. For example, instructions for creating regular season and round-robin tournaments for real-life children leagues, as well as PHD level mathematical considerations (focusing on the unsatisfied desire for a working schedule algorithm that guarantees and covers all cases), etc.