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Originally Posted by gmo
Sandman has an idea that gets you closer to 162. I'd imagine it depends on what you are analyzing whether your results would be adversely affected. You could go the route of playing 8 teams 15 times each and the other 3 teams 14 times each. Again, without knowing what you're doing it's hard to say whether something slightly unbalanced would pollute the study.
What I do with my experimenting league is use 10 teams so there are 9 opponents played 18 times each (in three 3-game series both home and away). I have three series covering 9 days then an offday, all the way through the schedule. I'd be glad to hook you up with that if you could and wanted to adjust your league to 10 total teams.
If not, making another one for you for experimentation would be easier than normal since it would not need much "prettying up" like normal schedules. Well, now that I think about it, if it is a typical sort of configuration (as 2 divisions of 6 teams is, even if the schedule is balanced), it may as well be made nice for general use as well if the layout of the games is conducive for that. Do you care at all about series really being series, or are you fine with single games and maybe pairs of games being much more common than the usual when 3- and 4-game sets are about all there is?
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i will eventually do a study on every rating in the game, but im starting with the batting ratings. 12 teams because i plan on doing 1 team has 100, 1 team has 90, 1 team has 80, 1 team has 70, etc. all the way down to 0, but 2 teams will have baseline 50. every player is exactly the same in every way, except the 1 rating im testing. from birth date and place to handedness and loyalty.
the schedule doesnt need to be pretty and i dont need a specific series length. fatigue and injuries are off, so days off dont matter. i just want it so that every team winds up playing every team the correct number of times and after reading the above couple posts i realize where i made my mistake. 154 games should be fine for what im doing because im doing 10 seasons anyway. im assuming ~1500 games is sufficient enough to flush out the differences that will occur.
so that would be 1 league, 2 divisions, 6 teams per with each team playing 154 games (7 home/away vs each).