20 Team 152 Game Schedule Request (1SL/1D/20T)

[Hachey67]

I have a 20 team fictional league I'd like to operate similarly to a European football league with only one subleague and division with every team in it.

Every team with play every other team 8 teams, one 4 game series at home and one 4 game series on the road for a total of 152 games.

Teams should either all play or all be off on any given day

Season starts on a Monday (first on or before March 28th), with games going:
4 game series (Mon-Tue-Wed-Thu)
Day off (Fri)
4 game series (Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue)
Day off (Wed)
4 game series (Thu-Fri-Sat-Sun)
and then repeat every two weeks.

Preferably, a team should play a series against every other team before playing any team twice

Instead of an all-star break, if it's possible, can there be a 4 week long break for international tournaments (champions league-esque) after the first 12 weeks of the season.

Thank you so much!!!

[BBGiovanni]

Originally Posted by Hachey67

I have a 20 team fictional league I'd like to operate similarly to a European football league with only one subleague and division with every team in it.

Every team with play every other team 8 teams, one 4 game series at home and one 4 game series on the road for a total of 152 games.

Teams should either all play or all be off on any given day

Season starts on a Monday (first on or before March 28th), with games going:
4 game series (Mon-Tue-Wed-Thu)
Day off (Fri)
4 game series (Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue)
Day off (Wed)
4 game series (Thu-Fri-Sat-Sun)
and then repeat every two weeks.

Preferably, a team should play a series against every other team before playing any team twice

Instead of an all-star break, if it's possible, can there be a 4 week long break for international tournaments (champions league-esque) after the first 12 weeks of the season.

Thank you so much!!!

I got something similar for an 18 team league a while back, if you have any interest I can find it and link it. But I hope you get this up and running! I worked it out with a home-and-home round in the first half of the season with each team playing each other 2 games in each place, then alternating four game series in the second half. It made for strange offdays in the second half of the season, but (since I play my games out) it got you all the way around the league twice in the first couple of months of the season.


Sorry I'm not a schedule builder, but I like your idea and have thought about rebuilding my setup around 20 team leagues so I'll be watching

[gmo]

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# 20 team schedule, 152 games
# Designed for the following configuration:
# 1 subleague with 1 division of 20 teams
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# 8 games against other 19 teams of division (4H/4A)
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# Schedule defined balanced, so make sure settings consistent with that
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# One series against each opponent in the first half of the season
# One series against each opponent in the second half of the season
# Halves are split by a four-week period with no games from late June to late July
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# Series are set in two-week blocks of:
# * series Mon-Thu
# * Fri offday
# * series Sat-Tue
# * Wed offday
# * series Thu-Sun
# * then next block immediately begins next day
# Exceptions are extra series Mon-Thu at end of first half and Thu-Sun at beginning of second half
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# Teams play no more than two consecutive series home or away
# Midseason break is considered to break home/away streaks
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# Season begins first Monday on or after Mar28
# Season ends first Sunday on or after Oct16 (spans 203 days)
#
# No All-Star Game set, though obviously huge block of time midseason to set one
#
# Posted 2025/06/01
#

[Hachey67]

Amazing!! Thank you so much!