I can work on laying out the matchups, but let me make sure I have this all straight before I dive fully into it. There is one series each Sun-Fri week either Sun-Tue or Wed-Fri, except for (1) May 6-May10 & Sep 2-Sep 7 when there are series both Sun-Tue & Wed-Fri, (2) Jun17-Jun22 when there is no series but the All-Star Game on Jun17, and (3) those 4 weeks when the series are on set parts of the week. Is this, as listed out below, correct?
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Wk 1 Mar11-Mar16
Wk 2 Mar18-Mar23
Wk 3 Mar25-Mar30
Wk 4 Apr 1-Apr 6
Wk 5 Apr 8-Apr13
Wk 6 Apr15-Apr20
Wk 7 Apr22-Apr27
Wk 8 Apr29-May 4
Wk 9 May 6-May10 (2 series)
Wk 10 May13-May17
Wk 11 May20-May24
Wk 12 May27-May31
Wk 13 Jun 3-Jun 8
Wk 14 Jun10-Jun15
Wk 15 Jun17-Jun22 (no series, ASG Jun17)
Wk 16 Jun24-Jun29 (series are on Jun27-Jun29)
Wk 17 Jul 1-Jul 6
Wk 18 Jul 8-Jul13
Wk 19 Jul15-Jul20
Wk 20 Jul22-Jul27
Wk 21 Jul29-Aug 3
Wk 22 Aug 5-Aug10
Wk 23 Aug12-Aug17
Wk 24 Aug19-Aug24
Wk 25 Aug26-Aug31
Wk 26 Sep 2-Sep 7 (2 series)
Wk 27 Sep 9-Sep14 (series are on Sep 9-Sep11)
Wk 28 Sep16-Sep21 (series are on Sep19-Sep21)
Wk 29 Sep23-Sep28 (series are on Sep23-Sep25)
When you say my choice as to which segment of the week onto which to place the series on most of the weeks, do you want all of the series of that week on the same days, or is it okay in that week to have some series on Sun-Tue and other series Wed-Fri? Any preference on those Sun-Tue & Wed-Fri choices - try to even them out over the season, more one than the other, anything like that?
As for wanting to not have too many home or away series in a row for any team, typically I work with a limit of 4 series in a row home or away, but try to have as few single series homestands or roadtrips. With your unusual layout for the schedule, would you like me to try to keep the number of consecutive series as few as possible (try to alternate home & away series as much as I can) or just do not let there be too many in a row like I normally try to do?
How exactly do you plan on doing your league cup? Will that be in the place of a typical postseason? You can schedule those games for yourself, but you will have to make sure there is at least one more game at least as a placeholder so the game does not assume your regular season is over. What you can do is just have a single game between two random teams scheduled for when the final of the cup will be (or begin), then when you schedule that last game or series you delete that extra game and the cup final will then be the end of the season. The games as you schedule them for that cup will end up as regular season games. Maybe that is your plan, but I just wanted to make sure you knew those games would be added to the standings and the stats would be added to the players' totals as normally. The game will have no problem if you just create the league with a 90-game schedule, then import the 90-game schedule you have specified to have made, and finally manually set the games that will end up sending all the teams to total schedule lengths of various totals over 90 games.