Fictional leagues with shorter schedule

Frogwise · 04-09-2018, 10:00 PM

I was thinking of creating a league with a 42 game regular season and I have some questions about how the game will handle that.

1. Will the games be spread out with like a 4 day break in between? I'm interested in this because more rest days would allow me to reduce the pitcher rotation down to 2/3. Which leads to my next question:
2. If I set the league-wide pitcher rotation setting to less, will the game acknowledge the lesser need for pitchers and generate less of them upon creating the game?
3. My third question is about the playoffs. If I still chose to have best of 7 series, will it be scheduled in a small window like the current MLB, limiting rest days and ruining my smaller pitching rotation idea? Or is there a way to schedule them over a longer time period?

As you can probably tell, I'm kind of expecting this experiment to fail, so I thought I'd ask if anyone else had tried it before I put the work into testing it.

Thanks in advance.

P.S. I'm still on OOTP 18, if that makes any difference.

GiantYankee · 04-09-2018, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Frogwise

I was thinking of creating a league with a 42 game regular season and I have some questions about how the game will handle that.

1. Will the games be spread out with like a 4 day break in between? I'm interested in this because more rest days would allow me to reduce the pitcher rotation down to 2/3. Which leads to my next question:
2. If I set the league-wide pitcher rotation setting to less, will the game acknowledge the lesser need for pitchers and generate less of them upon creating the game?
3. My third question is about the playoffs. If I still chose to have best of 7 series, will it be scheduled in a small window like the current MLB, limiting rest days and ruining my smaller pitching rotation idea? Or is there a way to schedule them over a longer time period?

As you can probably tell, I'm kind of expecting this experiment to fail, so I thought I'd ask if anyone else had tried it before I put the work into testing it.

Thanks in advance.

P.S. I'm still on OOTP 18, if that makes any difference.

I can speak to 1 and 3.
1. No. Generating the schedule will not get you the results that you are looking for. You should check the OOTP Mods Schedules forum to see if a schedule fits what you are looking for. You can also make a request.

3. Playoffs will be scheduled like MLB. You can manually edit the playoff schedule though.

discodude5 · 04-09-2018, 11:52 PM

I have a fictional league with an 81 game schedule.
It loaded a matching schedule and doesn't spread out games.

There may be an easier way to mass edit the schedule.

#1-From doing some work on moving games around in another league where I wanted a couple extra off days it seems like it would be some effort for this but it should be possible.
The good news is you are trying to set it up for 42 games not 162 so it will be much easier.

You would have to delete a series, then add that series later probably moving all series on those days to the new days so you avoid having a team playing two different teams on the same day.

In the edit league schedule there is an action button, report evaluation that you can use to make sure each team has the 42 games when your done.

#3-I don't have experience with manually scheduling playoffs but on the schedule editor you can add them so it seems like you could make them spread out like you want.

You should make a test league, try deleting and adding just a couple of series and see how things look when you're playing regular season games in what was originally playoff time and then try manually scheduling playoffs. See when the trade deadline and roster expansion should be moved to.
One concern would be any of the offseason events like free agency conflicting with the longer season so testing is needed.

spleen1015 · 04-10-2018, 09:07 AM

Tons of schedules available here - http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=249096

NoOne · 04-10-2018, 09:18 AM

#2 is a toughy... i would hope it scales to sesttings -- make sure to change rotation size for the league. may want to add 1 to rp or bench etc, so it still adds up to 25 or whatever you want. same settings area.

if you leave those things unchanged, almost certainly wn't change what's made. since it offers a varied rotation size, i'd assume it changes ratio of created players accordingly. someone with more historic experience with different size rotations could attest to that.

mm7607 · 04-10-2018, 06:01 PM

Sometimes I run a 40 game schedule. I made all the scheds for 8 team to 32 team leagues. Took awhile but using notepad++ made it easier. I used 20 player rosters with 5 pitchers. This version doesn't seem to follow any rule except 'strict rotation' no matter how I set up the staff or what settings I use, so I've given up on it for now. I always turned off auto free agents because the game always generated too many so I would create them as I went. I also used 7 gm playoffs and it worked always worked fine.

Mets52 · 04-10-2018, 10:24 PM

Has anyone ever tried a double header schedule? Is it even possible? With larger rosters, I don't see why you couldn't do 162 games over 90ish days (rest days) using double headers. I'm thinking this would be an interesting league for 24/25 and under, for those sitting in FA, max 1 year deals for development.

04-10-2018, 09:18 AM	#5
NoOne Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 7,167	#2 is a toughy... i would hope it scales to sesttings -- make sure to change rotation size for the league. may want to add 1 to rp or bench etc, so it still adds up to 25 or whatever you want. same settings area. if you leave those things unchanged, almost certainly wn't change what's made. since it offers a varied rotation size, i'd assume it changes ratio of created players accordingly. someone with more historic experience with different size rotations could attest to that. Last edited by NoOne; 04-10-2018 at 09:20 AM.

04-09-2018, 10:00 PM	#1
Frogwise Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2018 Posts: 17	Fictional leagues with shorter schedule I was thinking of creating a league with a 42 game regular season and I have some questions about how the game will handle that. 1. Will the games be spread out with like a 4 day break in between? I'm interested in this because more rest days would allow me to reduce the pitcher rotation down to 2/3. Which leads to my next question: 2. If I set the league-wide pitcher rotation setting to less, will the game acknowledge the lesser need for pitchers and generate less of them upon creating the game? 3. My third question is about the playoffs. If I still chose to have best of 7 series, will it be scheduled in a small window like the current MLB, limiting rest days and ruining my smaller pitching rotation idea? Or is there a way to schedule them over a longer time period? As you can probably tell, I'm kind of expecting this experiment to fail, so I thought I'd ask if anyone else had tried it before I put the work into testing it. Thanks in advance. P.S. I'm still on OOTP 18, if that makes any difference. Last edited by Frogwise; 04-09-2018 at 10:03 PM.

04-09-2018, 11:52 PM	#3
discodude5 Major Leagues Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Saskatchewan Posts: 363	I have a fictional league with an 81 game schedule. It loaded a matching schedule and doesn't spread out games. There may be an easier way to mass edit the schedule. #1-From doing some work on moving games around in another league where I wanted a couple extra off days it seems like it would be some effort for this but it should be possible. The good news is you are trying to set it up for 42 games not 162 so it will be much easier. You would have to delete a series, then add that series later probably moving all series on those days to the new days so you avoid having a team playing two different teams on the same day. In the edit league schedule there is an action button, report evaluation that you can use to make sure each team has the 42 games when your done. #3-I don't have experience with manually scheduling playoffs but on the schedule editor you can add them so it seems like you could make them spread out like you want. You should make a test league, try deleting and adding just a couple of series and see how things look when you're playing regular season games in what was originally playoff time and then try manually scheduling playoffs. See when the trade deadline and roster expansion should be moved to. One concern would be any of the offseason events like free agency conflicting with the longer season so testing is needed.

04-10-2018, 09:07 AM	#4
spleen1015 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 5,951	Tons of schedules available here - http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=249096

04-10-2018, 06:01 PM	#6
mm7607 All Star Reserve Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Originally from Fla, now in Ky Posts: 710	Sometimes I run a 40 game schedule. I made all the scheds for 8 team to 32 team leagues. Took awhile but using notepad++ made it easier. I used 20 player rosters with 5 pitchers. This version doesn't seem to follow any rule except 'strict rotation' no matter how I set up the staff or what settings I use, so I've given up on it for now. I always turned off auto free agents because the game always generated too many so I would create them as I went. I also used 7 gm playoffs and it worked always worked fine.

04-10-2018, 10:24 PM	#7
Mets52 Minors (Double A) Join Date: May 2017 Posts: 124	Has anyone ever tried a double header schedule? Is it even possible? With larger rosters, I don't see why you couldn't do 162 games over 90ish days (rest days) using double headers. I'm thinking this would be an interesting league for 24/25 and under, for those sitting in FA, max 1 year deals for development.