Question about making generating schedules

magritte · 11-11-2015, 02:23 PM

Is there a way to control either the length of the season (in time, not games) by setting an end date, or some way of setting the number of off days? I've been playing a fantasy league with National Association players (1871-1875) and the schedules have large numbers of games on consecutive days with the fifty-game season ending by the end of May. Even with the 1870's pitcher stamina, you really need an off day between starts, and there aren't enough pitchers to go around, so some teams are struggling with constantly exhausted pitchers.

All I see in the options for schedule generation is a way to set the number of games in the season and the length of series. I tried going to one-game series hoping it would insert offdays between the series, but it didn't. Am I missing something?

NoOne · 11-11-2015, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by magritte

Is there a way to control either the length of the season (in time, not games) by setting an end date, or some way of setting the number of off days? I've been playing a fantasy league with National Association players (1871-1875) and the schedules have large numbers of games on consecutive days with the fifty-game season ending by the end of May. Even with the 1870's pitcher stamina, you really need an off day between starts, and there aren't enough pitchers to go around, so some teams are struggling with constantly exhausted pitchers.

All I see in the options for schedule generation is a way to set the number of games in the season and the length of series. I tried going to one-game series hoping it would insert offdays between the series, but it didn't. Am I missing something?

you can set a start date, but series length, and more so # of games in the season determines length.

it's odd their are no days off. have you tried generating a new schedule? maybe this will insert some days off.

are there an odd number of teams while trying to do a balanced schedule? this will cause oddities in days off

there is a schedule generator in the mods section. unfortunately, i don't believe it can import an existing schedule easily, so, it's best to make your own. use the matchups from the current schedule that doesn't have days off, so you don't have to think about who is playing whom next.

add that newly created schedule file to your schedules directory. load it up in your game. it will randomize the matchups in ensuing years while maintaining the scheduled days off and such.

magritte · 11-11-2015, 03:37 PM

Huh. Now that I think about it, I did give it a number of teams/games that didn't work out evenly. I'll try a 56-game schedule for my 8 teams in 1873 and see if it works out better.

I should say that there are days off, just not very many of them. Five days off in a fifty game season isn't nearly enough for that era, particularly given that I seriously doubt they could have played in Chicago and Boston on consecutive days in the 1870's.

eriqjaffe · 11-11-2015, 05:29 PM

Probably the best way to handle it would be to do a custom schedule, you have complete control over it. It can be a little daunting, but it's ultimately just an XML file.

There's also a whole sub-forum for schedules, so there may already be one made that works for you or gives you a decent starting point.

magritte · 11-11-2015, 08:45 PM

Thanks for the heads-up about the subforum. However, I noticed in one of the other threads that there's an option to set the timing of the all star break. That may allow me to force the game to spread the games out.

RchW · 11-11-2015, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by magritte

Thanks for the heads-up about the subforum. However, I noticed in one of the other threads that there's an option to set the timing of the all star break. That may allow me to force the game to spread the games out.

But to clarify the AS break is fixed in the schedule. That is for any given schedule the ASG is x days from opening day.

NoOne · 11-11-2015, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by magritte

Huh. Now that I think about it, I did give it a number of teams/games that didn't work out evenly. I'll try a 56-game schedule for my 8 teams in 1873 and see if it works out better.

I should say that there are days off, just not very many of them. Five days off in a fifty game season isn't nearly enough for that era, particularly given that I seriously doubt they could have played in Chicago and Boston on consecutive days in the 1870's.

i think that's the same rate as a regular mlb season in ootp. so, having it re-generate in game probably won't help much. you'll definitely have to do a custom one.

are you having problem wiht starting pitchers recovering for their next start? maybe your starting pitcher stamina setting is not right for your rotation sizes. check that before you invest the amount of time needed to use that schedule generator in the mods section, especially since it's your first time using it.

magritte · 11-11-2015, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by NoOne

i think that's the same rate as a regular mlb season in ootp. so, having it re-generate in game probably won't help much. you'll definitely have to do a custom one.

are you having problem wiht starting pitchers recovering for their next start? maybe your starting pitcher stamina setting is not right for your rotation sizes. check that before you invest the amount of time needed to use that schedule generator in the mods section, especially since it's your first time using it.

Well, pitcher stamina is very high and most of the starters have stamina 100. But that's not enough to allow them to pitch complete games for 12 consecutive days. The A.I. does try to pull exhausted pitchers but because the numbers of available pitchers is so small, it's a huge advantage to the teams that have a second pitcher.

The funny thing is that I didn't have this problem in the first season where I just went with the default 1871 settings and had a fantasy draft to generate new teams instead of trying to generate a new schedule. The schedule I was given had only 1 or 2 games a week, so having my entire season pitched by one pitcher wasn't a problem. But I wasn't happy with the league being divided into two leagues of four teams that never played one another except for the world series, so I reconfigured the league as a single division...and when I had to make the new schedule, I hit my problem.

11-11-2015, 02:23 PM	#1
magritte Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 49	Question about making generating schedules Is there a way to control either the length of the season (in time, not games) by setting an end date, or some way of setting the number of off days? I've been playing a fantasy league with National Association players (1871-1875) and the schedules have large numbers of games on consecutive days with the fifty-game season ending by the end of May. Even with the 1870's pitcher stamina, you really need an off day between starts, and there aren't enough pitchers to go around, so some teams are struggling with constantly exhausted pitchers. All I see in the options for schedule generation is a way to set the number of games in the season and the length of series. I tried going to one-game series hoping it would insert offdays between the series, but it didn't. Am I missing something?

11-11-2015, 05:29 PM	#4
eriqjaffe Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2003 Location: Under The Christmas Fish Posts: 7,645	Probably the best way to handle it would be to do a custom schedule, you have complete control over it. It can be a little daunting, but it's ultimately just an XML file. There's also a whole sub-forum for schedules, so there may already be one made that works for you or gives you a decent starting point. __________________

11-11-2015, 03:37 PM	#3
magritte Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 49	Huh. Now that I think about it, I did give it a number of teams/games that didn't work out evenly. I'll try a 56-game schedule for my 8 teams in 1873 and see if it works out better. I should say that there are days off, just not very many of them. Five days off in a fifty game season isn't nearly enough for that era, particularly given that I seriously doubt they could have played in Chicago and Boston on consecutive days in the 1870's.

11-11-2015, 08:45 PM	#5
magritte Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 49	Thanks for the heads-up about the subforum. However, I noticed in one of the other threads that there's an option to set the timing of the all star break. That may allow me to force the game to spread the games out.