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Originally Posted by No Pepper
I think in general, PCL or otherwise, the schedules were in some way unbalanced because of travel considerations or events like the 1906 earthquake...
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The PCL didn't have a fully balanced schedule until the mid to late 1950s if I recall correctly. Schedule imbalances were mostly an artifact of its scheduling system: 7-game series, with single games Tuesday through Saturday and a doubleheader on Sunday. Mondays were left open for travel. The league adhered fairly rigidly to this scheduling system, and when combined with the length of the season, teams typically didn't play opponents the same number of times. Moreover, the home and away splits against an opponent, or for the season as a whole, were also often imbalanced. (Adding to the imbalance was that doubleheaders were always played on holidays.)
Here, for example, is how the opponent matchups looked in the 1953 PCL schedule, which called for a 180-game regular season:
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1953 PCL schedule
SDG HOL LOS OAK SFO SAC POR SEA
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San Diego -- 22 22 22 23 32 31 28
Hollywood 22 -- 33 30 28 23 22 22
Los Angeles 22 33 -- 28 30 22 22 23
Oakland 22 30 28 -- 33 22 23 22
San Francisco 23 28 30 33 -- 22 22 22
Sacramento 32 23 22 22 22 -- 28 31
Portland 31 22 22 23 22 28 -- 32
Seattle 28 22 23 22 22 31 32 --
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TOTAL 180 180 180 180 180 180 180 180