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Originally Posted by jmm8356
So there would be a Friday the 13th in the same month every year?
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Yes, IF you choose to keep the SAME the "Year starts on" value for every season you do.
The thing is, I think OOTP automatically increments the "Year starts on" value when you proceed to the next season. This ordinarily would be a good thing, except for the fact that OOTP does not recognize leap years (it never accounts for a Feb. 29th). The result of this is that once you hit a leap year, the series may no longer line up to the correct days (i.e. a series originally scheduled for Fri-Sat-Sun may end up as Thu-Fri-Sat).
This was the reason I posted a little table (subsequently improved by gmo) listing the correct "Year starts on" value to use in OOTP if you wanted the days of the week to match up to the correct dates for a given year. In other words, you'd have your OOTP calendar match that of the real world.
There are basically these three options:
1) Use the same "Year starts on" value every season so that your series start and end on the proper days. This option is by far the simplest solution. The down side is that your calendar won't match up to the date/day of the week combination as in the real world calendar.
2) Use the proper "Year starts on" value to make your calendars realistic. The down side is that you need to adjust your schedule file every season to ensure the series are starting and ending on the proper day of the week to match the calendar.
3) Let OOTP increment the "Year starts on" value automatically, and ignore both the fact that the date/day of the week combination doesn't match reality and that the series won't start and end on the proper days after a few seasons.
Personally, I'd say #2 is the ideal solution, but it involves some work. But it does have the advantage of making your schedules the absolutely most realistic, as you could also have proper looking road trips for every season (something impossible if you simply let OOTP switch up the opponents). If someone posting a schedule file included a set of schedules designed specifically for each possible "Year starts on" value, then that work would be done for you already. This isn't quite as bad as it sounds, since there are only 7 possible "Year starts on" values.
(This, incidentally, is what I plan to do whenever I finally manage to get around to creating some fictional schedules.)
Leaving aside option #2, I'd then say #1 is the best remaining choice and #3 the worst.