how do schedules work?

[Cras]

Hi guys, there was something I was wondering about and I figured this to be the best sub-forum to ask in.

How exactly do the schedule files know which team is which in a league? Is there id numbers assigned to teams or does it go by nick name, city name, or the like?

I am asking because I am currently playing a fictional historical league, and I am using the old mlb scheds that come with the game. The scheds look right, I get days games, I get historically accurate dates and series lenghts, and no interleague play, but I am wondering if the I am actually playing the right teams on the right days.

I remember in OOTP 6.5 that scheds were based on Team IDs and that some work had to be done to reshuffle teams into the right order so scheds would make the teams play the right opponents on the right days.

Any insight will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[gmo]

The game continues to ID#s the same way. For historical MLB schedules, the team ID#s follow a known pattern - AL before NL, the divisions go in a certain order, teams within divisions are ordered alphabetically by name. Knowing that the game will use that ordering system for team ID#s the schedule files can follow the same pattern and correspond to, e.g., Baltimore Orioles in the league being team #1 in the schedule.

[Cras]

Thanks for the info.

I was guessing that is how it worked.

Now here is a situation for you, in my current league, the NL is is sub-league 1, and AL is sub-league 2, and on top of that when you go to game setup, the teams are not listed in alphabetical order, but rather in the old order I entered them in. Now according to what gmo said, that is not releveant, as the game goes and assigns ids by alphabetical name order, and thus it is really hard to screw up the schedules.

Am I right in assuming this?

[gmo]

Hmm, I am not sure I follow. But if you have a configuration different from that for a strictly "historical" league (like a fictional league similar to MLB but with the NL & AL subleagues flipped), I do not think you can expect the historical schedules to match actual history.

You can always take a look at the Retrosheet schedules and see how yours compares.

[Cras]

Originally Posted by gmo

Hmm, I am not sure I follow. But if you have a configuration different from that for a strictly "historical" league (like a fictional league similar to MLB but with the NL & AL subleagues flipped), I do not think you can expect the historical schedules to match actual history.

You can always take a look at the Retrosheet schedules and see how yours compares.

Thanks for the link. I will take a look and compare to see if my schedules match those in real history.

[Cras]

After looking at the link you gave me and my league's schedules, I can confirm that indeed I am playing with the wrong schedules. The NL is playing the ALs schedule, and the AL is playing the NLs.