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Originally Posted by Vris
2 leagues...in each league there are 2 divisions...in each division there are 5 teams.
Think you can do up noninterleague 144 game schedule for something like this? I'd like to actually have it unbalanced, but unsure of how that would work. Balanced is nice, 16 games against each other team in the league. But 16 is an even number, making the series hard to do as it is (5 three game series and 1 four game series isn't all that bad). Splitting it up would be 22/10 (that's 22 games vs teams in division, and 10 games vs teams in other division). Is that possible, or would that make things difficult?
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I figured that 22/10 works out to 88+50=138. But 21/12 comes out to 144 games. That can be broken up fairly easily into all 5 interdivision opponents played 6H/6A, and the 4 intradivision opponents played all differently - 9H/12A, 12H/9A, 10H/11A, 11H/10A. How does that seem?
Breaking the matchups down is not too difficult if you are willing to allow for 1-game differences in the total matchups (not needed above) and 1- to 3-game differences in the home/away numbers (like shown above). Is that okay? I could try crunching some other numbers if you wanted more (perhaps up to ~28/6) or less (closer to 16/16) unbalanced or if you wanted to try for something with less home/away split differences. The latter can often be obtained by piling in 2-game series, something that may be undesirable, like breaking down 10 total games into 2&3H/2&3H as opposed to 4H/3&3A or vice versa. And of course perfect symmetry can only come from all even numbers, something that may not even be possible in many cases.