It's 2012, why hasn't OOTP done this yet?

[Mr. Baseball]

I'm positive that a day will come when schedules will be easier to generate. If you were to travel back in time and tell the people playing OOTP 2 about all of the changes that have occurred in the last 11 games, they'd call you crazy.

Until then, I keep on trying to find a solution to my schedule dilemma. Back when GMO was present, there weren't many people interested in requesting short-season schedules, therefore it's nearly impossible to find anything that even remotely comes close to fitting my needs.

If anyone for whatever reason knows where I can find a 48 team, 2 league, 4 divisions of 6, 60-game schedule heavy on division play, let me know...

I've been looking for the last two years.

[The Game]

Originally Posted by Mr. Baseball

I'm positive that a day will come when schedules will be easier to generate. If you were to travel back in time and tell the people playing OOTP 2 about all of the changes that have occurred in the last 11 games, they'd call you crazy.

Until then, I keep on trying to find a solution to my schedule dilemma. Back when GMO was present, there weren't many people interested in requesting short-season schedules, therefore it's nearly impossible to find anything that even remotely comes close to fitting my needs.

If anyone for whatever reason knows where I can find a 48 team, 2 league, 4 divisions of 6, 60-game schedule heavy on division play, let me know...

I've been looking for the last two years.

Why not create your own? I created a 28 game 18 team 28 game schedule on 11, Wish I would have saved it. it did take me 2 weeks to perfect, and I have not done it since.
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[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by Mr. Baseball

I'm positive that a day will come when schedules will be easier to generate. If you were to travel back in time and tell the people playing OOTP 2 about all of the changes that have occurred in the last 11 games, they'd call you crazy.

Until then, I keep on trying to find a solution to my schedule dilemma. Back when GMO was present, there weren't many people interested in requesting short-season schedules, therefore it's nearly impossible to find anything that even remotely comes close to fitting my needs.

If anyone for whatever reason knows where I can find a 48 team, 2 league, 4 divisions of 6, 60-game schedule heavy on division play, let me know...

I've been looking for the last two years.

Is it a correct assumption that when you have the game scheduler generate a schedule for this setup that there is less division play than you would like to have and that this lack is the cause of your search for a new schedule?

[Mr. Baseball]

@TheGame

I'd love to create my own, but I wouldn't even know where to start.

@TheWolf:

The game automatically generates a schedule in which I play every team in the entire sub league in the same order, the same amount of times...

Team 1
Team 2
Team 3
Team 1
Team 2
Team 3

[david limbaugh]

Originally Posted by Mr. Baseball

I'm positive that a day will come when schedules will be easier to generate. If you were to travel back in time and tell the people playing OOTP 2 about all of the changes that have occurred in the last 11 games, they'd call you crazy.

Until then, I keep on trying to find a solution to my schedule dilemma. Back when GMO was present, there weren't many people interested in requesting short-season schedules, therefore it's nearly impossible to find anything that even remotely comes close to fitting my needs.

If anyone for whatever reason knows where I can find a 48 team, 2 league, 4 divisions of 6, 60-game schedule heavy on division play, let me know...

I've been looking for the last two years.

I can hook you up! :-)

With 6 team divisions, that is 5 games. 3 game series? Home and away? That gets you to 30 games out of 60, not exactly heavy on division play. 4 game series? 8 x 5 = 40 that leaves 20 games - 5 4-games series of 10 2-games series? Or 45 games via 3 game series but alternate each year who hosts 2 or 1? and 5 3-games series against other division, rotating and alternating home and away each year?

Is 60 games a must?

I suggest this:

4 3-game series, 2 home and two away, inside division - 60 games
play a 2-game series against each team in other division, alternating home and away each season

that gets you 72 games...

[david limbaugh]

Originally Posted by Mr. Baseball

@TheGame

I'd love to create my own, but I wouldn't even know where to start.

Let me help ya... background: YEARS ago (pre-internet/cell phones) - ran a 40 team industrial softball league (Commissioner was a neat title :-)

Since 1997 have run a high school baseball tournament that over the years has expanded to 40 teams from across the nation (something about that number 40).

You want to create a 6-team schedule? I have memorized about every schedule combination and bracket known to man - I have college and high school coaches ask me to make schedules for them. LOL

Start here:

1,6
2,4
3,5

1,5
2,3
4,6

1,4
2,5
3,6

1,3
2,6
4,5

1,2
3,4
5,6

(V),(H)

But you need a way to alternate home and away....

Take a sheet of paper or a spreadsheet

make a 'punnett square' of 1-6 down the page

use a pencil not a pen - because some erasing is involved

mark by each number when it is home...

re-arrange each series so that eventually each team has equal as possible home and away - keep in mind you can just repeat the cycle and swap the numbers and then everyone has same number of home and away games.

If I do this:

1,6
2,4
3,5

5,1
3,2
6,4

4,1
5,2
6,3

1,3
2,6
4,5

2,1
4,3
6,5

1,3,5 have 3 home series, 2,4,6 have 2

Here is a snippet from a schedule .lsdl file:

<GAME day="1" time="1300" away="13" home="1"/>

I have written QuickBasic programs that read a .dat file and generates these lines.

PRINT #1, "<GAME day=";CHR$(34);day;CHR$(34);" time=";CHR$(34);"1300";CHR$(34);"away=";CHR$(34);v 1;CHR$(34);"home=";CHR$(34);h1;CHR$(34);"/>"

With code that inputs the games,

INPUT #2, v1, h1

and increments day and does other things.

example of a '6team.dat' file snippet of data:

1,6
2,4
3,5
7,12
8,10
9,11
-1,-1

the -1,-1 tells the loop that the day is over, increment day (day = day +1) and read in another day

I use -2,-2 to schedule an off day (day = day + 2) and 99,99 for end of data

for inter-division

1,12
2,7
3,8
4,9
5,10
6,11

and then just flip divisions and decrement top division:

11,1
12,2
7,3
8,4
9,5
10,6

Something I like to do to make 'different' schedules is create a spreadsheet (open office Calc, like QB is free) and make a chart of visitor# and command and home# and move them around (with a colored column in between and then cut and paste each column of games that day into a text file for data (.dat) and then read that in my quick basic to write my .out file - I then created a fictional league schedule inside OOTP, and cut out all the <Game> tags and paste mine in. Voila!

Hope this helps!