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06-03-2006, 06:00 PM | #21 | |
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Here's how it looked for the 1946-49 and 1957-58 seasons: 1946: No early openers. All teams opened on the same day, Tues. Apr. 16. In the NL, Cincinnati, New York, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis opened at home. 1947: The AL had the sole season opening game, New York at Washington, on Mon. Apr. 14. The remaining AL teams and the NL opened on Tues. Apr. 15 (in the NL, Cincinnati, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn opened at home). 1948: Three early openers to start the season on Mon. Apr. 19. In the NL, the lone game scheduled was Pittsburgh at Cincinnati. In the AL, Philadelphia was at Boston for a doubleheader (since that date was also the Patriot's Day holiday in Boston), and New York was at Washington. The remaining teams in the leagues got underway the following day. 1949: Two early openers to start the season on Mon. Apr. 18, one in each league. In the NL, Philadelphia was at Boston, while in the AL Philadelphia was at Washington. All remaining teams began their seasons the next day (in the NL, Cincinnati, Chicago, and Brooklyn opened at home). 1957: One early opener, in the AL. The season kicked off with Baltimore at Washington on Mon. Apr. 15; all remaining teams in both leagues opened their seasons the following day (in the NL, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Chicago opened at home). 1958: One early opener, in the AL: Boston at Washington on Mon. Apr. 14. All other teams opened on Tuesday (in the NL, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and San Francisco opened at home). One important thing to note if you're using historical schedules to fill in for other years/leagues: in the real schedule, holiday doubleheaders were the standard during the 8-team league years. These holidays were May 30th (Memorial Day*), July 4th (Independence Day), and Labor Day. Because the first two are fixed date holidays, that means the day of the week they fall on will slide through the week as the years go by. The majors accounted for this in their schedules, but if you use the force weekday start option (which you should so that series will always start and end on proper days regardless of the date/day of the week combination for any calendar) this means the fixed date holidays will not fall on the proper fixed dates. You'll either have to accept all teams playing a doubleheader on a few days even though they won't line up to the fixed date holidays, or you have to very carefully select your schedule files so that fixed date doubleheaders fall on a Saturday or Sunday for example, in which case the twin bills can be rationalized as special events. Or just imagine that the holidays are falling on different dates than is the case in the real world... that's probably the easiest thing to do. *Memorial Day was a fixed date holiday, falling on May 30th of each year (or May 31st if May 30th was a Sunday), up until around 1971. The holiday was then changed to be the last Monday in May. |
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06-07-2006, 12:40 AM | #23 |
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Wow thats some confusing ****
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If you haven't read it I cannot urge strongly enough that you read this thread: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=119714 The actual XML files are quite easy to create/understand once you get over that shock. |
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