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Originally Posted by actionjackson
However, a balanced schedule does not render divisions useless.
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Uh, yes it does, for a very simple reason. With a balanced schedule, each club plays every other club in the league the same (or nearly the same) number of times. That means you could rearrange the divisions in any way you want—since divisional rivals will be played just as often as teams out of the divisions, then any given divisional alignment is just as fair as any other. The result is that the divisions are arbitrary and meaningless.
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Originally Posted by actionjackson
The bolded part is the fault of the silly computer scheduling system.
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No, it has to do with the complicated and interconnected nature of the schedule format, stadium availability, travel requirements, and club preferences. Sometimes the gigantic jigsaw puzzle that is a Major League schedule leaves few good schedule options.