Hey all,
Doing my first fictional league with minors and custom college/high school feeders. I am requesting a custom schedule because I want to make my high school and college teams have adequate days off to allow for less SP requirements. My goal is to get my HS teams to only have 2 starters and my College teams to have 4. Here are the details;
High School-
Set up is 2 conferences with 2 divisions in each. 5 teams per division(20 teams in all). I would like to see them play 26 games but only on the weekends. No inter-league required but i have made sure that balanced games are thought through. Teams would play their division rivals for 4 games. Most likely 2 games at their opponent one weekend and the other 2 game series at home on another weekend. Their non division rivals (the other 5 teams in the other division) they would only play 2 times. This makes sure that the teams won't tire out their 2 starters with loads of back to back games. This means that there would be 13 weeks of ball (if that means anything). Their schedule begins on the first weekend of April (must be a sat).
If that doesn't scare you off try out the college request.
College-
College has the same setup as high school with 2 conferences, 2 divisions in each conference, and 5 teams in each division (20 teams in all). However they play more games. I would like to have the college teams play 4 games a week from thursday to sunday. So they play 2x the games high school does. Its basically just 2x of highschool. They would play 52 games. 8 against their division rivals (4 teams) and 4 games against the other division teams (5 teams). Again no inter-league but balanced schedule. College begins same time as HS (first thursday of april).
The hardest part is only allowing the teams to play on certain days. I started a custom schedule by editing the xml file and was just getting really bogged down by how much work it was going to take.
If you have any questions please feel free to ask, i'm more than happy to also take advise on different styles and ideas. I stream this league on twitch as well so if you want to watch how it goes i will include that below.
Twitch
Thanks
Alex