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Originally Posted by BoilerRocketScientist
GMO, I'm new to this but it sounds like you have fun making these schedules (or at least have a good program to make them with) so I'll put in a request. I'm working on starting a 24 team fictional league (the North American Professional Baseball League) with 2 leagues, 3 divisions, and 4 teams per division.
I'm thinking of 2 options. The first has 20 games within the division, 6 games against the remainder of each league, and 4 interleague games, which (if I did my math correctly) comes up to 156 games. The other option has 16 division games, 8 league games, and 4 interleague games for 160 games. I would plan on starting the league in early April and have it run through to the end with the All-Star game after the championship series. The end of the season would just fall out of the schedule depending on the number of days off. I'm not sure what you usually use as a basis for days off but is 1 day off every 2 weeks reasonable?
Thanks greatly!!
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You do have your math correct in adding up the matchups. I should be able to knock out one (or both) of those versions. The 24-team 2/3/4 configuration is relatively easy to work with, so the main issue will be laying out the number of matchups into series.
The only problem is with the All-Star Game - you can have it after the regular season, but if you do then the game will not schedule the playoffs until after the All-Star Game is finished. So you can schedule it for a couple of days after the last regular season game (accounting for a day or so to have playoff tiebreakers, if they are needed and thus get automatically added) and before the playoffs would begin.
Very close on the offdays, though they are a bit more common. I generally go by the current standard MLB of 162 games in 26 weeks, which comes out to 20 total offdays, but 3-4 of those come in the All-Star Break. For 156 or 160 games with no in-season All-Star Break I will likely go with 25 or 25.5 weeks, so the season will run from early April to late September.