Question About Adding Teams/Schedule

Mister_G · 05-13-2012, 07:54 PM

Ran into a problem today. I had a 6-team league that played a 50-game season. Everything was fine and then after 4 years I added a 7th team during the off-season (I believe in January). When I was able to regenerate a new schedule I did. Then, the next season for some reason it wasn't a full 50 games. Anyone know what the problem is? Am I doing something wrong? Is there a specific time I'm supposed to add teams?

Also, I tried ignoring it and going to the next season where I made a 60-game schedule. Same problem. And some teams played a different amount of games.

Any help would be appreciated.

DoubleBacon · 05-14-2012, 01:23 AM

7 is an odd number of teams. One team must always be off right???? Perhaps that's your problem?

bwburke94 · 05-15-2012, 01:27 PM

Tested and confirmed that this is the case.

With a 50-game schedule, one team has 42 games, the other teams have 43.
With a 60-game schedule, three teams have 51 games, the other four have 52.

The only way to have everyone play the same number of games without manual editing is to set the number of games to, for example, 56, as that number is divisible by 7. Each team would actually play 48 games.

Mister_G · 05-16-2012, 03:58 AM

Figured it out before I could read the replies, but thanks guys!

If anyone could help me out on these other two problems it would also be awesome.

The first is that my league won't let me generate an unbalanced schedule for some reason.

The second is that originally in this league I used the All-American mod for names, ethnicities, etc. Around 1945 I overwrote the database with the game's default settings for those things. The names are different now and follow the names in the database I put in. However, there seems to be a problem where everyone is caucasian. No matter if there name is Smith, Chen, Ramirez, whatever, they are always caucasian. Any help would be appreciated.

Mister_G · 05-19-2012, 04:08 PM

Bump. Any help? Sorry guys, this is just frustrating me and I can't seem to figure out the answer to either of these problems.

bwburke94 · 05-19-2012, 08:42 PM

1. Known weakness of OOTP's schedule generator.
2. It's 1945. That's probably the reason, since everyone in MLB was Caucasian back then.

Mister_G · 05-20-2012, 11:18 PM

So is there anyway I can get a 160-game unbalanced schedule with interleague play?

TGH-Adfabre · 05-20-2012, 11:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mister_G

So is there anyway I can get a 160-game unbalanced schedule with interleague play?

I do not know but this is where to start.

OOTP Mods - Schedules - OOTP Developments Forums

Good luck

Mister_G · 05-22-2012, 11:28 AM

Help with one of my earlier questions...anyone have any idea why my league has no black or Hispanic looking players?

Everyone is Caucasian unless I manually go into their editor and change them.

Anyone know of a way to fix this?

JBob · 05-22-2012, 01:41 PM

How do I add two teams to the majors?

05-13-2012, 07:54 PM	#1
Mister_G All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 576	Question About Adding Teams/Schedule Ran into a problem today. I had a 6-team league that played a 50-game season. Everything was fine and then after 4 years I added a 7th team during the off-season (I believe in January). When I was able to regenerate a new schedule I did. Then, the next season for some reason it wasn't a full 50 games. Anyone know what the problem is? Am I doing something wrong? Is there a specific time I'm supposed to add teams? Also, I tried ignoring it and going to the next season where I made a 60-game schedule. Same problem. And some teams played a different amount of games. Any help would be appreciated.

05-14-2012, 01:23 AM	#2
DoubleBacon Minors (Single A) Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: In the garage! Posts: 51	7 is an odd number of teams. One team must always be off right???? Perhaps that's your problem?

05-15-2012, 01:27 PM	#3
bwburke94 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Belchertown, MA, USA Posts: 4,527	Tested and confirmed that this is the case. With a 50-game schedule, one team has 42 games, the other teams have 43. With a 60-game schedule, three teams have 51 games, the other four have 52. The only way to have everyone play the same number of games without manual editing is to set the number of games to, for example, 56, as that number is divisible by 7. Each team would actually play 48 games.

05-16-2012, 03:58 AM	#4
Mister_G All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 576	Figured it out before I could read the replies, but thanks guys! If anyone could help me out on these other two problems it would also be awesome. The first is that my league won't let me generate an unbalanced schedule for some reason. The second is that originally in this league I used the All-American mod for names, ethnicities, etc. Around 1945 I overwrote the database with the game's default settings for those things. The names are different now and follow the names in the database I put in. However, there seems to be a problem where everyone is caucasian. No matter if there name is Smith, Chen, Ramirez, whatever, they are always caucasian. Any help would be appreciated.

05-19-2012, 04:08 PM	#5
Mister_G All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 576	Bump. Any help? Sorry guys, this is just frustrating me and I can't seem to figure out the answer to either of these problems.

05-19-2012, 08:42 PM	#6
bwburke94 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Belchertown, MA, USA Posts: 4,527	1. Known weakness of OOTP's schedule generator. 2. It's 1945. That's probably the reason, since everyone in MLB was Caucasian back then.

05-20-2012, 11:18 PM	#7
Mister_G All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 576	So is there anyway I can get a 160-game unbalanced schedule with interleague play?

05-22-2012, 11:28 AM	#9
Mister_G All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 576	Help with one of my earlier questions...anyone have any idea why my league has no black or Hispanic looking players? Everyone is Caucasian unless I manually go into their editor and change them. Anyone know of a way to fix this?

05-22-2012, 01:41 PM	#10
JBob Bat Boy Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 14	How do I add two teams to the majors?