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Originally Posted by gmo
There are a couple of problems with your request. A tiny thing is that with 5-team leagues there must be an even number of games within the division for all teams to play the same number of games. Looking back at your similar request from a couple of months ago for something with 120-140 games, I'd assume a small adjustment to that 117 league games number would be acceptable.
The larger problem is that with an odd number of teams in each league there must at all times be either at least one interleague series or one team in each league not playing. Your request to trim back to 1 series per interleague opponent for each team poses a problem as that adds up to a total of 25 interleague series when there are about 40 half-week blocks with series occurring. So those other 15 (or perhaps more) half weeks would need to have teams off for those 3-4 days in a row. That breaks down to about 3 or 4 such 3-4 day off-stretches per team.
So would you like me to give the fewer interleague games but more offdays a try? I would try to make it otherwise similar in form to the 134-game schedule I made before after your previous request, though I believe that it would work out best at about 129 or 131 total games. If you want this, would you prefer the offday blocks be used up in the first half of the season, saved until late in the season, put in the middle several weeks of the season, or spread throughout the whole season?
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First of all thanks for your help. This schedule is for a 1898 fictional league. I want the schedule shorter than 162 but bigger than 130 games and it should be a number which I can use for any time/number of teams in my league. So if it's not too unrealistic please spread the offdays through the season.
Thanks
Skywalker76