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Originally Posted by Ktulu
For the schedules in this thread, if you import one into your league at the start of your league(yr 1) will this same schedule be used for every season thereafter?
If the answer to the latter is yes, does the game change the team matchups automatically so that the schedules are different from year to year or does this have to be done manually?
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You'd think I should know the answer to this, but I'm not sure I do. I believe in the previous OOTP versions that the schedule would (likely) change automatically going into the next season in some manner based on the order of finish in the division. Something like maybe teams 1/2/3/4/5 could be say 4/3/1/5/2 the next season. So that would mix up intradivisional matchups, and even if it was like the AL East and continually had the same order, other divisions mixing themselves up would cause changes to the out-of-division games. I don't know the exact details though, or even if this still holds for OOTP6, though I am pretty sure it does. If someone does not come in soon behind me clarifying this I'll see what I can figure out.
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Originally Posted by Ktulu
If you have to change the team matchups manually is there an easy way to go about doing this? 
So basically what I want to know is can I import a schedule and keep that schedule's structure but have different matchups from year to year? |
This is a little off from what you asked, but I recommend checking out
this thread about adjusting to keep the games and days of week in line. It may sound complicated, but I don't think it really. It requires just a couple simple tasks in a spreadsheet. Another easy thing to add some variety to the matchups you can do in a spreadsheet is flip the away and home team columns. I like doing this because for some schedules where the home/away matchups aren't balanced in one year, this gets that balance over a two year period. A last thing I'll do regularly is manually change the team numbers with each division in a text file. This takes a little work, but is worth it for the variety. Say you start with the first division which has teams 1-6. You can Find/Replace in order (what's in the quotes) all the ",1," to ",XX,", then all the ",2," to ",1," then the ",3," to ",2," then the ",4," to ",3,", then the ",5," to ",4,", then the ",6," to ",5,", then the ",XX," to ",6,". Takes a little effort with a bigger league with several division, but not too much IMO for the changes you get - it's only a few minutes. Just be careful when changing you has already put the number you are changing
to somewhere else already be it a place holder (XX) or another number. And make sure that the away & home teams (2nd & 3rd items in file data row) and not the start times (4th item) have have commas on both sides.
So in summary, I'll take a schedule and every year adjust in a spreadsheet the day numbers as described in the thread linked above. In alternating years I'll flip the home and away columns in a spreadsheet. In the years I don't do that flip, I shift the team number around within each division, or at very least the division of my team where I pay close attention to all the games and could easily recognize repeating patterns. With those last two changes there is a lot of variety added.
Hope that helps. I've been thinking a good description of this sort of stuff would be good to put here. But I don't think I did that with this post, plus there is more to describe. Maybe I should work on that. Anything unclear, let me know and I'll try to construct better explanations.