Request: 10 team, one game a week format

[Cole]

Hi all,

I created and released for the community the Big Game Baseball quickstart a few versions ago (in a nutshell, it was NFL structure and schedule - only one game a week, so teams only carried one SP - their "QB" and produced some very unique results).

I have an idea for another unique fictional league in a similar vein that I want to create and release as a quickstart.

It would use promotion/relegation, as well as the one game a week/NFL style format combined.

There would be 3 tiers of leagues, each combined by association (for year-end tournament), and each individual league with 10 teams (1 division of 10 teams).

Premier League (PL) (which relegates into the Silver League)

Silver League (SL) (which relegates into the Bronze League and promotes into the Premier League)

Bronze League (BL) (which promotes into the Silver League)


So the schedule I'd like is an 18-game schedule, with 1 home game and 1 away game versus each of the other 9 teams in your league. Only 1 game a week. Bye week isn't necessary if that makes it more complicated, and no all-star game midseason (with so few games I find it's best to have it at year end).

If possible, if I could get 3 versions of this schedule, one that has games on Fridays, one that has games on Saturdays, and one that has games on Sundays.

I'm planning to make it so that the BL games are Fridays, SL on Saturday and PL on Sunday, so each league has their own day of focus.

Starting somewhere in late April is good so season runs until around August.

Thanks in advance for anyone who is able to tackle this for me, and let me know if any other info is required.

[gmo]

#
# 10 team schedule, 18 games
# Designed for the following configuration:
# 1 subleague with 1 division of 10 teams
#
#
# 2 games against 9 other teams (1H/1A)
#
# 
# Schedule considered balanced so setting should be as such
# 
# All single games on Fridays
#
# No more than 2 consecutive games played home or away
#
# All game times set at 7:05pm
#
# Season begins first Friday on or after Apr22
# Season ends late August
# Season spans 120 days
#
# No All-Star Game
#
# Built 2023-02-25
#

[gmo]

#
# 10 team schedule, 18 games
# Designed for the following configuration:
# 1 subleague with 1 division of 10 teams
#
#
# 2 games against 9 other teams (1H/1A)
#
# 
# Schedule considered balanced so setting should be as such
# 
# All single games on Saturdays
#
# No more than 2 consecutive games played home or away
#
# All game times set at 7:05pm
#
# Season begins first Saturday on or after Apr23
# Season ends late August
# Season spans 120 days
#
# No All-Star Game
#
# Built 2023-02-25
#

[gmo]

#
# 10 team schedule, 18 games
# Designed for the following configuration:
# 1 subleague with 1 division of 10 teams
#
#
# 2 games against 9 other teams (1H/1A)
#
# 
# Schedule considered balanced so setting should be as such
# 
# All single games on Sundays
#
# No more than 2 consecutive games played home or away
#
# All game times set at 7:05pm
#
# Season begins first Sunday on or after Apr24
# Season ends late August
# Season spans 120 days
#
# No All-Star Game
#
# Built 2023-02-25
#

[Cole]

Thank you gmo, that's a huge help!

[Cole]

GMO,

Even though I see it's set up as a schedule for 1 subdivision, 10 teams in that division, I'm getting the error message "Could not import schedule. The loaded schedule has a different structure as the current league"

Any idea why I'd be getting this message and how to fix that?

[gmo]

I created a little test league and had the same issue.

I had the "type" in the SCHEDULE definition at the top of the file as...

ILN_BGY_G18_SL1_D1_T10_C_

Changing that to...

ILN_BGY_G18_T10_C_

...gets it to load. So I have updated the attachments that way.

So if you have a single-division league whose schedule file does not load, remove that "SL1_D1_" piece from that type definition.

This surprises me. I thought it would work either way for a one-subleague & one-division league - either spell out the structure or just have the shortened second version. My script for generating the lsdl file has been doing it the former way for a while for that structure. I will change it to make it the latter way for such cases.