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Originally Posted by gmo
With 16 games per opponent, 8 games home and 8 away works out to perfect balance. So it seems having those 8 games divided into a pair of 4-game series would work out nicely. It does, except that you cannot fit two 4-game series within a week. If you go only with 4-gamers then you lose the meaning of the days of the week, plus though the offdays can be staggered some there is not much variety in them.
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Call that the "minor league" style schedule approach. Most of the minors go that route, using four game series as much as possible, stuffing them into the schedule with little regard for which day a series starts or ends on. Most begin and end on the usual days, but some will end on a Saturday with a new series beginning on a Sunday, for example.
The off days generally fall on the same day for all the teams in a league, but that's mostly due to the schedules being fairly time-compressed.
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Originally Posted by gmo
A better idea though may be to not hold the 8H/8A breakdown for the 16 games against each opponent. I believe that if I split most of the 16 down 9H/7A and 7H/9A I could at least almost completely eliminate the 2-game series and still keep everything else nicely intact. Teams would still have the same total numbers of home & away games (56 & 56), they would just not be balanced perfectly team-by-team.
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Call that the "major league" style approach, which has been used to one degree or another since 1998. It does also happen in the minors from time to time, depending on what's needed to complete the schedule.