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Originally Posted by gmo
The "5/4/4" does not match with 28 teams. There should be two divisions per subleague with 5 teams.
That said, the perfectly balanced schedule with six games against the other 27 teams does add to 162 total games. And the six games per opponent can split into a 3-game series home and one away. The only problem there is that the offdays cannot fall on the specific dates. They can still be uniform for all teams, but they would be shifted. Like the All-Star break being a couple days earlier, mid-month offdays being like on 14th or 17th instead of 15th, and some other scattered offdays. Would that be okay?
If those offdays falling on those dates in more important, I assume there can be 2-game and 4-game series made instead of all 3-game to make them fit around those offday dates.
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Hey gmo, you're right, brainfart on my end. It's supposed to be 5-5-4 (or more specifically, 4-5-5 and 5-5-4) but you probably deduced that, but as you also noted, it's functionally irrelevant.
Let's move the offdays around. A perfectly balanced schedule is more important here since it's rare to get exactly the same amount of games against all teams, let alone also balanced between home and away.