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Originally Posted by Vris
As for the rotation, I think I can fiddle with that as long as I have a template to go by. I plan on copying the schedule and making the ones for subsequent years right off the bat anyway and therefore just importing a new one every year. I don't trust the OOTP schedule generator to do it right.
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I was trying to work out a template to cover the various set rotations of opponents but decided it would be easier to just go ahead and make all of them. So what I am looking at is a big pile of schedules in a set order where each season you only have to manually adjust those 2 matchups against league opponents who finished the same place in the standings. I have them all laid out and am testing how they look.
Issues, points, questions...
*1. Each season has the same layout, which is the same for every team. That means everybody is playing in the division, interleague, or whatever at the same time, and they do those things in the same week every season. I did set it up to have the last 3 matchups being all against division opponents as people generally like to have races decided at the end.
*2. Actually to get one Monday game per week, that would need to be done manually also, though going through the schedule after import and each week deleting one Friday game and replacing it on the following Monday does not sound like much work. Plus it allows for more preferable matchups, and it can be done during the season.
*3. I'm guessing there is no need for any kind of break for an All-Star Game in season since the Pro Bowl is after the NFL season. Just remember the playoffs will not start until after an All-Star Game if you add one after the regular season. I'm also guessing bye weeks are unnecessary with all the offdays already there, plus trying to incorporate them into this layout scheme would be next to impossible.
*4. What time frame do you want the season to span? 16 weeks is almost 4 months, so there is April-July, June-September, or whatever else. I just need a preferred start point or end point to work from.
*5. In the checking the layouts I have done so far, some seasons have cases where a few teams have stretches of 5 straight matchups either home or away, and stretches of 4 straight are somewhat more common. I'm trying to minimize this, but hopefully it is not a big deal since all the teams have their total of 8 home and 8 away matchups. The NFL is good at not having such long stretches, but they aren't trying to do all years at once
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