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Originally Posted by ZTO333
I am fine with anything but I would love for this dynasty to continue in some way. I love the whole idea of the NFL style schedule for baseball. I agree though with the NFL teams having their own biases. I preferred the days of the Cresents and Bisons etc. Perhaps starting from scratch or something along those lines may be a good idea. Then the league will have its own feeling and history. I have no idea how to fix the scheduling problem as I've only ever played iOOTP not OOTP. I really just hope this dynasty can continue in some form as I have really enjoyed it.
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Thanks for the feedback, and for following along. I will definitely plan on continuing on in some way shape or form. Right now I'm leaning towards a restart to build some history.
I've been experimenting with some different things and schedule lengths. While I definitely want to go with the NFL concept of weekly games I definitely don't want to be an NFL clone. I was doing a little bit of research online, and I think something clicked when I read something that said if baseball played an NFL style schedule they'd play 26 games, playing between April and September.
That makes a lot of sense so I've started to run with that and create some schedules. Trying to get things to work in a balanced manner it seems like 14 teams in the league works best, playing each other team in the league 13 times. That seems to work pretty well, I just need to decide between 1 division, or splitting them up between 2 divisions of 7 teams.
That leaves the playoff problem, but I tested out having 2 game series - one game Saturday, one game Sunday. That forces each team to have two starters, and the playoffs would be best of 3 series. That seems to work well giving each starter 26 starts, and the number 1 starter seems to pitch games 1 and 3 in the playoffs, on full rest if I adjust the stamina.
That seems to solve the playoff problem somewhat. I'm still debating on whether I want to go that route or not though. I'm comfortable moving to 26, but 52 seems to go against the whole concept somewhat.