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Originally Posted by goroyals
8 team, 70 game schedule
That runs from about April 15 to September 20, with no Sunday games.
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Here's a idea again avoiding originality... The 1879 NL schedule (as originally planned I presume) has 12 games per opponent. It would be routine to pull 1 game home and 1 away off of every set of team matchups to trim it down to the 70 games you want. It runs May 1 through Sept 30, which can be bumped forward a week or two to more fit your request, and it has no Sunday games.
The games are all laid out in 3-game series, and as best I could tell by quick glance each team plays pretty much only one such series a week. That is part of why it would be easy to just pull out single ones here and there to get down from 84 games to 70 games per team. The major exception is the Boston & Providence games that are all single games, as the teams are so near each other, with many of them at the end of the year and going back and forth between home parks as opposed to being strictly single game matchups. In some cases during the year those single games appear to add to the regular 3 games per week or maybe force a series to wrap around a Sunday. If you told me the ID numbers of two teams that are very close to each other in your league I could set those to mimic BOS/PRO.
Of course, you have to okay the plan. How's it sound?