Question about rescheduling rain-outs

[joefromchicago]

I was replaying the 1922 season when the following situation occurred: the Red Sox were to scheduled to play single games against the A's in Philadelphia on Saturday and Monday. Pennsylvania prohibited Sunday baseball back then, so there was no game scheduled for that day. The Friday game was rained out, and OOTP scheduled the make-up game as part of a Monday double-header. Now, as I see it, that could be the result of one of the following:

1. the game knew that it couldn't reschedule the game for Sunday, so it chose the next available date;
2. the game prefers to reschedule rainouts as parts of double-headers rather than filling in the next available off-day; or
3. it was just dumb luck.

It would be cool if the game understood the Sunday baseball ban, but I suspect that it prefers to schedule double-headers rather than filling in off-days. Anyone know what's going on here?

[Bluenoser]

The game looks to see when the 2 opponents play again, and schedules a dbl hdr for that day. If the 2 teams don't meet again, it will search for a common off day, even if that's not until the end of the season.

[joefromchicago]

I suspected as much, and I imagine that the developers weren't thinking of that kind of situation when they worked out the make-up game protocol. Still, it's interesting that it fits very nicely with history.

[Bluenoser]

Originally Posted by joefromchicago

I suspected as much, and I imagine that the developers weren't thinking of that kind of situation when they worked out the make-up game protocol. Still, it's interesting that it fits very nicely with history.

My sentiments exactly

[bwburke94]

Maybe that's why they reschedule rainouts that way.

[andyhdz]

Originally Posted by joefromchicago

Pennsylvania prohibited Sunday baseball back then

How quaint.