Request: 32 team (2S/4D/4T) | 162 game (42/72/48)

[europa]

After playing a couple season with the 54/60/48 schedule graciously provided by gmo, it is clear that the amount of intra-division games is a little high. Having some teams go 16-2 against one terrible team in their division is not a good balance. The current real life MLB schedule did just reduce from 19 to 14 intra-division games, so cutting it from 18 to 14 in one offseason seems realistic for my sim.

Games vs. opponent breakdown (162 total):

• 14 against each division opponent: 14*3 = 42 intra-division
• 6 against each subleague opponent: 6*12 = 72 intra-league
• 3 against each interleague opponent: 3*16 = 48 inter-league

With this breakdown, there are more inter-league games than intra-division games, which I'm not sure how I feel about, but I can live with it.

Series breakdown:

• intra-division: 2 3-game (3H/3A) & 2 4-game (4H/4A) OR 4 2-game (4H/4A) *whatever works best here for balancing the schedule is fine
• intra-league: 2 3-game (3H/3A)
• inter-league: 1 3-game (3A or 3H)

Miscellaneous stuff:

• Season begins first Friday on or after March 29
• 4 day break for all star game (game on Tuesday)
• I like this breakdown of game start times from the previous schedule:
  • All weekday game times set at 7:05pm
  • Saturday game times 30%-1:05pm, 20%-4:05pm, 50%-7:05pm
  • Sunday game times 60%-1:05pm, 25%-4:05pm, 15%-7:05pm
  • Exceptions 1:05pm getaway days (where both teams play elsewhere next day)

Thank you in advance!

[gmo]

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# 32 team schedule, 162 games
# Designed for the following configuration:
# 2 subleagues, each with 4 divisions of 4 teams
#
#
# 14 games against 3 other teams in division (7H/7A)
# 6 games against 12 other teams in subleague (3H/3A)
# 3 games against each team in other subleague (3H or 3A)
#
#
# No homestands or roadtrips longer than 13 games
#
# Teams play as many as 16 consecutive days without offday
#
# All teams play 13-14 weekend series at home
#
# All weekday game times set at 7:05pm
# Saturday game times 30%-1:05pm, 20%-4:05pm, 50%-7:05pm
# Sunday game times 60%-1:05pm, 25%-4:05pm, 15%-7:05pm
# Exceptions 1:05pm getaway days (where both teams play elsewhere next day)
#
# Season begins first Friday on or after March 29
# Season ends late September/early October
# Season spans 185 days
#
# All-Star Game first Tuesday after July 9 (day 103)
#
# Built 2023-03-11
#

[UltimateAverageGuy]

Originally Posted by gmo

#
# 32 team schedule, 162 games
# Designed for the following configuration:
# 2 subleagues, each with 4 divisions of 4 teams
#
#
# 14 games against 3 other teams in division (7H/7A)
# 6 games against 12 other teams in subleague (3H/3A)
# 3 games against each team in other subleague (3H or 3A)
#
#
# No homestands or roadtrips longer than 13 games
#
# Teams play as many as 16 consecutive days without offday
#
# All teams play 13-14 weekend series at home
#
# All weekday game times set at 7:05pm
# Saturday game times 30%-1:05pm, 20%-4:05pm, 50%-7:05pm
# Sunday game times 60%-1:05pm, 25%-4:05pm, 15%-7:05pm
# Exceptions 1:05pm getaway days (where both teams play elsewhere next day)
#
# Season begins first Friday on or after March 29
# Season ends late September/early October
# Season spans 185 days
#
# All-Star Game first Tuesday after July 9 (day 103)
#
# Built 2023-03-11
#

This is an excellent setup gmo thank you for posting this. Will the home/away alternate each year using this?

[gmo]

Originally Posted by UltimateAverageGuy

This is an excellent setup gmo thank you for posting this. Will the home/away alternate each year using this?

It does not strictly alternate, but the game does randomly mix up teams with in each division each year.

The slotting of games has matchups:

 1 @ 17   18 @  1    1 @ 19   20 @  1
17 @  2    2 @ 18   19 @  2    2 @ 20
 3 @ 17   18 @  3    3 @ 19   20 @  3
17 @  4    4 @ 18   19 @  4    4 @ 20

Suppose you have teams A, B, C, D in first division of first subleague and teams Q, R, S, T in first division of second subleague.

First year A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4 and Q=17, R=18, S=19, T=20. So that means:

 A @ Q    R @ A    A @ S    T @ A
 Q @ B    B @ R    S @ B    B @ T
 C @ Q    R @ C    C @ S    T @ C
 Q @ D    D @ R    S @ D    D @ T

The next year could be whatever permutation for each division, such as A=1, B=4, C=2, D=3 and Q=19, R=17, S=18, T=20. So that would mean the matchups become:

 A @ R    S @ A    A @ Q    T @ A
 R @ C    C @ S    Q @ C    C @ T
 D @ R    S @ D    D @ Q    T @ D
 R @ B    B @ S    Q @ B    B @ T

If you played the schedule infinite times you would expect it to converge to home/away balance for every team. But with on how the teams move randomly within the slots, it is basically a coin flip whether the home/away for a particular matchup would be the same from one year to the next.

[84Cubs]

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