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Originally Posted by ssacc98
You should be able to find them at Retrosheet.
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You can get the as played schedules in the game logs. The original schedules are in a separate area, and, regrettably, have not been updated (by me mostly) in quite a few years now.
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Originally Posted by No Pepper
A good many thanks go to you LGO for your trouble. I know there have been some who have used their schedules but never had the time or thought to share them. Are the schedules you working on accounting for odd number of teams as well as the instability of say, the National Association?
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The first thing to note is that the pre-1901 structure has to be simplified for OOTP because it cannot, as yet, handle the kind of league expansions, contractions, and folding which went on in real life.
Garlon designed the pre-1901 league structure as it exists currently in the game (I personally would have done it somewhat differently, mostly to eliminate the need to adjust the schedules). The adjusted structure works like this: two subleagues are required from the start; one stands in for the AA, and the other is essentially the NL. From 1871-1881, there are four teams in each subleague. In 1882, each subleague expands to eight teams, and stays that way through to 1901.
Since I'm doing the schedule files, I've taken the liberty to do them as I feel is most reflective of the historical reality. The number of games in each year will work out like this:
1871: 30 games
1872: 48 games
1873: 54 games
1874: 60 games
1875-1876: 72 games
1877-1878: 60 or 72 games (haven't decided yet)
1879-1882: 84 games
1883: 98 games
1884-1885: 112 games
1886-1887: 140 games (AA/AL), 126 games (NL)
1888-1891: 140 games
1892-1899: 126 games
1900: 140 games
The reason for the drop to 126 games from 1892-99 is to keep the total number of games being played from getting too large in comparison to reality. In the real world, from 1891-1900, there were 7,424 games scheduled. In OOTP, due to the larger number of teams (16 vs. 12 or 8), if 140 games was used all the way through it would result in 9,632 games, some 29.7% more games. That would mean the players would be getting a lot more games in OOTP than they did in reality. By dropping 1891-99 to 126 games, it cuts the overall number of games to 9,184. This is 23.7% more than reality, still a fair amount higher , but certainly less than when using 140 games.
Plus it does echo the shorter schedule the NL used from 1892-97.
The 1882-1891 schedule files will be almost exact duplicates of the real-world schedules; the other years require more editing. It'd be easier if I wasn't such a picky perfectionist, but since I am, I've ended up editing real schedules to ensure such things as the cities represented in OOTP's portrayal of the 19th century only play Sunday home games the same years their real life counterparts did. And I'm trying to keep the road trips looking realistic, which means being careful about how one year's schedule is reused by swapping teams around.
Sometimes I wish I wasn't so pick and pefectionist... it'd sure make things easier and quicker!