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Originally Posted by Nzsftbl
I have scrolled through the schedule requests, and this one may sound weird.
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Maybe I do hear some weird requests around these parts, but since there's all kinds in the world I just try to give people want they want and not be judgmental.
I made a schedule like you wanted in my generic manner then went back and shifted things to move the starting date up a couple weeks, move the weekdays back by two, set it to be for 2001, and set some of the times to day games. Let me know if you did not get all you wanted.
As for making the schedule fit with the same parameters for the days of the week for other years, there is some discussion of that beginning at around post number 164 in this thread and running through several posts right after that.
If you do nothing at the beginning of a subsequent season the same schedule will be used with the teams within a division likely being mixed up (for example, the first year A & B played in the first season, but the next season maybe A & C, or B & C, or even A & B could be in that matchup's place). The benefits to this are that you get the exact same format but with a little variety in where the matchups fall. The negative aspect is that the weekdays will not match the calendar - the calendar is identical every year, unlike how it changes year-to-year in reality. In your case, if you never changed it your schedule would begin each season on Sunday March 18. The problem is that March 18 is only occasionally a Sunday. Actually though it is not really a problem, it works just fine in the game, and many people probably go that route just not worrying about that little detail.
But if you are the perfectionist sort, you can alter the schedule file slightly in a spreadsheet and reimport it in the preseason each year.
This thread would likely be useful in going that route if you wanted to go to the trouble. If you only change the day numbers in the file to fit reality and reimport the same matchups each year, the repetitiveness will probably become a major negative very soon. One thing you can do is flip the home & away team columns to add a bit of variety. What I do for myself is copy the schedule data into a spreadsheet, make the data changes, and run it through a routine to mix up the teams for a new season. Like in your case I would perhaps set it to change team1 to team3, team2 to team1, team 3 to team2, and likewise for each of the divisions. Then I resave the data as a new file to import for the new season.