New Schedules: 162 games 30 Teams 2 Sub-Leagues with IL

Kirby Paquette · 12-26-2017, 03:08 PM

These are new 162 games schedules for 30 teams in 2 Sub-Leagues, each Sub-Leagues with 3 divisions of 5 teams.

Every team plays 14 games against the 4 division rivals (4-3//4-3), 6 games against the other 10 teams of the sub-league (3//3), 3 games against 14 teams of the other sub-league and 4 games against 1 team of the other league in the parental division (2//2).

The season span over 26 weeks including the all-star break. Days off are either Mondays or Thursdays.

I could not fit division rivals playing each other in September but the second part of the season (After the All-Star break) is well loaded with intra-division games. I could not also fit most of the intra-division games during weekends. It is not perfect but after spending lot of time on this, I was pretty satisfied.

To make sure that each team plays 4 games against each parental division rivals, I made 5 Schedules. To balance the home and away series in Intra-League, I made 5 mirror image Schedules of the first 5.

I randomized the 10 Schedules in the end.

tomnov · 01-19-2018, 03:15 PM

Mega awesome. I hadn't logged in since Christmas, instead thrashing away in an Excel spreadsheet manually moving blocks of games around to the point of driving myself mad. I might revisit my effort later, but I'm gonna fire up this set of schedules in my MLB Fantasy league and run several sims to see how well it balances out.
I am thrilled that someone who knows what they are doing in scheduling made this terrific set of schedules.

FYI, I started working from the back forward, basically, scheduling the last month first in order to guarantee the divisional rivalry games coming down to the wire, but then I started getting hung up on some of the travel ramifications, although I should have ignored this altogether for my starting effort, since the game's sim wouldn't factor any of that into players/teams performances, and my primary aim was just to balance the competition that each team faced during the year.

Downloading & leaving now to try these out.
THANK YOU THANK YOU Kirby Paquette, can't wait to try these any longer.

bwburke94 · 03-14-2022, 08:11 AM

Bumping this, because it looks to be very close to the 2023 schedule, if not exact.

Rain King · 03-14-2022, 08:24 AM

Yeah, this does seem to be the MLB schedule starting in 2023 with the one difference that this one rotates the "rivalry" inter-league series throughout the matching divisions.

PSUColonel · 05-21-2022, 11:55 PM

I'd love to see teams to play their 4 division rivals 18 times each. (9 games at home, 9 away) This gives you 72 games in division. Then teams could play every other team in their respective league 6 times (3 home, 3 away). That gives you 60 more games. Next choose one of the divisions in the other league to play each year, and rotate every three years. This would be 6 games against each team (3 home, 3 away) for 30 more games and a total of 162.

Easy. This gives you a very good bulk of games against your own division, followed by a healthy amount of games in the same league, and a handful of games form the other league.

Kirby Paquette · 05-22-2022, 08:09 AM

They are done already. You can find them here :https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...72&postcount=6

Bobbyraz49 · 05-22-2022, 11:11 AM

I TRULY appreciate the time people put into making this game/sim soooooo realistic.
Should you ever be in the Buffalo/Niagara area, contact me and I'll tell you where the best places for wings are located.

itsmb8 · 05-22-2022, 12:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PSUColonel

I'd love to see teams to play their 4 division rivals 18 times each. (9 games at home, 9 away) This gives you 72 games in division. Then teams could play every other team in their respective league 6 times (3 home, 3 away). That gives you 60 more games. Next choose one of the divisions in the other league to play each year, and rotate every three years. This would be 6 games against each team (3 home, 3 away) for 30 more games and a total of 162.

Easy. This gives you a very good bulk of games against your own division, followed by a healthy amount of games in the same league, and a handful of games form the other league.

This is peak sarcasm.

bwburke94 · 05-22-2022, 02:44 PM

I'm not one to understand sarcasm, and I don't get the point of playing one division twice instead of two divisions once, but it's been done.

And yes, having everything be a three-game series is a pain.

Situational_Lefty · 10-18-2022, 10:07 PM

With these schedules, do I need to manual select a different one each season? Or does the game rotate between the 10 schedules every year? This would be my first time using a schedule mod, so I wanted to be sure I was setting it up correctly.

01-19-2018, 03:15 PM	#2
tomnov Minors (Double A) Join Date: Nov 2017 Posts: 118	This schedule looks great, Thanks for the hard work. Mega awesome. I hadn't logged in since Christmas, instead thrashing away in an Excel spreadsheet manually moving blocks of games around to the point of driving myself mad. I might revisit my effort later, but I'm gonna fire up this set of schedules in my MLB Fantasy league and run several sims to see how well it balances out. I am thrilled that someone who knows what they are doing in scheduling made this terrific set of schedules. FYI, I started working from the back forward, basically, scheduling the last month first in order to guarantee the divisional rivalry games coming down to the wire, but then I started getting hung up on some of the travel ramifications, although I should have ignored this altogether for my starting effort, since the game's sim wouldn't factor any of that into players/teams performances, and my primary aim was just to balance the competition that each team faced during the year. Downloading & leaving now to try these out. THANK YOU THANK YOU Kirby Paquette, can't wait to try these any longer.

03-14-2022, 08:11 AM	#3
bwburke94 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Belchertown, MA, USA Posts: 4,482	Bumping this, because it looks to be very close to the 2023 schedule, if not exact.

03-14-2022, 08:24 AM	#4
Rain King Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 2,938	Yeah, this does seem to be the MLB schedule starting in 2023 with the one difference that this one rotates the "rivalry" inter-league series throughout the matching divisions.

05-21-2022, 11:55 PM	#5
PSUColonel Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 13,089 Blog Entries: 37	I'd love to see teams to play their 4 division rivals 18 times each. (9 games at home, 9 away) This gives you 72 games in division. Then teams could play every other team in their respective league 6 times (3 home, 3 away). That gives you 60 more games. Next choose one of the divisions in the other league to play each year, and rotate every three years. This would be 6 games against each team (3 home, 3 away) for 30 more games and a total of 162. Easy. This gives you a very good bulk of games against your own division, followed by a healthy amount of games in the same league, and a handful of games form the other league.

05-22-2022, 08:09 AM	#6
Kirby Paquette Major Leagues Join Date: May 2009 Location: Montreal Posts: 308	They are done already. You can find them here :https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...72&postcount=6

05-22-2022, 11:11 AM	#7
Bobbyraz49 All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2020 Posts: 906	I TRULY appreciate the time people put into making this game/sim soooooo realistic. Should you ever be in the Buffalo/Niagara area, contact me and I'll tell you where the best places for wings are located.

05-22-2022, 02:44 PM	#9
bwburke94 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Belchertown, MA, USA Posts: 4,482	I'm not one to understand sarcasm, and I don't get the point of playing one division twice instead of two divisions once, but it's been done. And yes, having everything be a three-game series is a pain.

10-18-2022, 10:07 PM	#10
Situational_Lefty Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 265	With these schedules, do I need to manual select a different one each season? Or does the game rotate between the 10 schedules every year? This would be my first time using a schedule mod, so I wanted to be sure I was setting it up correctly.