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Originally posted by gmo
I'm kind of surprised Retrosheet does not have any schedules posted besides 2004 for the last several years when MLB has been configured as it has been.
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Uh, that's my fault. I haven't been checking over all the proofing comments that were sent to me detailing the discrepancies between the files I originally created and various published sources.
Most of the discrepancies were related to starting time classification, i.e. whether a game was a day or night contest, and so on. It is really tedious to check that kind of thing, especially when there are 20 or more such discrepancies between each league, so I've been avoiding it.
The last seasons I finally cross-checked and confirmed all the info on were 1965 and 1986-87. I haven't sent the updated schedules file to Retrosheet yet because I figure I might as well wait until I have a good number ready for posting on Retrosheet to make a worthwhile update.
In any case, the scheduling for MLB since 1998 has been horrid thanks to the imbalance in the structure between the leagues and interleague play. Then there was the change to a divisional schedule in 2001, and the rotation of interleague opponents. This latter element is also very problematic, since it isn't possible to truly rotate it an orderly way.
By the way, I've recently come across several instances of minor leagues who operated for an entire season with an odd number of teams. I even managed to find a schedule for one such case, the Carolina League of 1966, which operated that year with 11 teams. I'm currently transcribing that schedule, and once it's done I'll make an OOTP-importable version so folks can check out how such a situation was handled. It should be pretty interesting...