162G,24T,4D (or 48T,8D), Unbalanced Schedule for 1 or 2 SubLeagues

[kq76]

This is the first baseball schedule I've ever made, but I put a crazy amount of research and work into it. With all the schedules for 24 teams out there I thought there'd be one that did exactly what I wanted, but there wasn't. Maybe this will fill similar criteria for someone else. I'll post the file's comments below so you can determine whether it'll work for you.

[kq76]

After the improvements I made to my workbook I decided to take another look at my first schedule and to my great dismay I saw a pretty big error that crept in late in the process.

So I fixed it and am attaching it here. I apologize to anyone who used the previous. It was still better than the default OOTP schedule for that setup, but it didn't do what I said it did.

2022-11-07 EDIT: I recently made some changes to the comments in the file so I'm uploading a newer version. If the original is working for you, you don't need to upload this again. If, however, you want to use it for alternate league structures then follow the new comments.

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version:
2.1

This schedule is for:
1 league, 4 divisions, 24 teams, 162 games, 187 days (or 2 subleagues with/without 48 teams!)

Each team will play an unbalanced schedule:
18 games each against their 5 divisional opponents (9H,9A, 90 total)
4 games each against their 18 interdivisional opponents (2H,2A,72 total)

The season starts:
on the last or second last Wednesday in March (on or after the 24th; this is simple to change, if you wish to, by changing the start* attributes in the schedule element, but note that you may not want to change the start_day_of_week as that will throw off what games are scheduled on the weekends)

The allstar game is played:
on the first or second Monday in August (day 132, about 2/3rds of the way into the season)

The season should end:
either the last week of September or the first week of October

Series are, like MLB, often played:
Thursday or Friday to Sunday and Monday to Wednesday or Thursday

Teams have an equal # of home and away weekend series (33)
While their weekend series are also split as evenly as possible between divisional and interdivisional (13/14)

Teams won't have home or away stands/trips longer than 2 weeks, most are 1 week (this took a long time to do)
Teams may have 1 series home or away and then leave

Offdays are, like MLB, often either:
Monday or Thursday, but not every Monday or Thursday (other than the ASB, there are no days with no games, this took awhile to do)

Most games start at:
7:05PM local time

Except Sundays (and, maybe in a later version, sometimes the final games of series), which start at:
1:05PM local time

Series alternate between:
interdivisional series and divisional series (there are no back to back series against the same opponents and matchups are evenly spread throughout the season)

The latest a team's opening day is:
a week in

The final series of the year are:
5 straight divisional matchups

Doubleheaders are:
not scheduled

You can also use this schedule for a league with an interleague structure (I successfully tested it) by replacing the above schedule element with (ILN changes to ILY, D4 changes to D2, and SL2D2 is added in between the T#s):
<SCHEDULE type="ILY_BGN_G162_SL1D2T6T6SL2D2T6T6" inter_league="1" balanced_games="0" games_per_team="162" start_month="3" start_day="24" start_day_of_week="4" allstar_game_day="132">

You can even use this schedule for a league with double the teams and 2 subleagues (I also successfully tested this) by:
using the special "Import for... subleague" actions (as opposed to "Import from file")
importing the file (with the original schedule element) for the first subleague,
and then import the file with the below schedule element for the second subleague (the SL1 simply changes to SL2):
<SCHEDULE type="ILN_BGN_G162_SL2D4T6T6T6T6" inter_league="0" balanced_games="0" games_per_team="162" start_month="3" start_day="24" start_day_of_week="4" allstar_game_day="132">

The original schedule element (in case you want to go back to it) is:
<SCHEDULE type="ILN_BGN_G162_SL1D4T6T6T6T6" inter_league="0" balanced_games="0" games_per_team="162" start_month="3" start_day="24" start_day_of_week="4" allstar_game_day="132">

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