[TribeFanInNC]

Originally Posted by conception

It appears I'm bumping an old thread, but I've got excellent news which should increase the use of this program.

I've been toying around with this to make custom schedules for my league and like the rest of you I inputted my league alignment into the program, set my parameters, and let it fly. It generated the files (I clicked the lsdl file at the top) but it would not input into the game, saying the structure was incorrect. I new this wasn't true and checked it over to be sure. What I ended up doing was creating a schedule in-game that had some of the parameters I wanted and exported it. I don't remember if it exported as an lsdl file or a text file, but I may have used windows explorer to change the extension to lsdl. I opened both files in notepad and noticed the heading was not exactly the same between the two. By heading, I mean:

<SCHEDULE type="ILY_BGN_G162_SL1_D1_T4_D2_T3_D3_T3_SL2_D1_T3 _D2_T3_D3_T4_C_" inter_league="1" balanced_games="0" games_per_team="162" preferred_start_day="2">
<GAMES>

So I simply copied the heading from the working file into the one I created getting the error. I also made sure the closing of the file was exactly the same, ie:

</GAMES>
</SCHEDULE>

I must emphasize EXACTLY the same. I don't know what caused the errors and what didn't, but I know when I loaded the same exact schedule into the game that wasn't working earlier, it loaded 100 percent correct with the new headings.

As long as you can generate a schedule in game that has the settings you are looking for (interleague, balanced schedule, obviously structure, etc.) you can copy the header into your own custom schedule and get it to work. Please note that the number of games that fit into each category, like division games, interleague games, etc. do no matter in the schedule that you are taking from the game. You can set them to whatever you want as long as the actual schedule options are the same.

This won't fix every single person's desire to have a schedule for whatever crazy league they have, but this will help a lot. I haven't noticed an real side effects yet.

Yeah I ran into header line problems too (as I outlined in post 17 above). It gets it mostly right, but needs some fixes. I did the same thing and copied an existing one. Thanks for the bump - hopefully others will get some use out of it.