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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
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.
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
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If you were using full interleague play, that would be 28 or 35 games for 1871, 42 or 49 for 1872, 56 for 1873-74. and 70 for 1875-1878 (mirroring the 70 game schedule of 1876, the only year of the four when there really were eight teams).