Can I Create a League that has one game per week

[red95vette]

I'm trying out the OOTP8 demo. (I tried last year's game and sat on the fence for a long while, but eventually decided NOT to purchase).

Anyway, I am trying to set up a simple fictional league and have it pretty much created with 8 teams. I want to run a short season where each teams plays each other twice for a total of 14 games. The game allowed me to configure this pretty easily, but I have two questions:

1. The schedule generator crams all the games into a 15 day period. I'd like to have it so that each team plays one game per week -- similar to football. Is that possible to do automatically or would I have to go into the schedule editor and configue such a schedule manually. If I have to do it manually, will the game reuse the schedule each year or would I have to manually edit it each season?

2. Related to #1, if I actually had only one scheduled game per week, then each team's ace starter would be paramount to the club (while other SPs on the team would become very less important, filling the roles of long reliever or injury reserve). Also bullpen requirements go way down with really only 2-3 relievers necessary at most. If I set the game to use a one-man pitching rotation would the AI adjust strategically or would it still try to maintain a club with 4-5 quality starters and a full bullpen complement?

Thanks.

[Cryomaniac]

It's not possible to do automatically, but I suppose it would work if you scheduled it manually, I'm going to do a test myself.

Just did that, it seems to work ok. I didn't use any form of balanced schedule, the teams played 15 games. It seemed alright.

[red95vette]

Thanks for the info! How about the other questions? Any other insight is appreciated.

- Does the weekly schedule carry over to the next season as well? (or would it need to be manually created each season?)

- What about question 2? I don't suppose you set up the game to use one man pitching rotations and noticed whether the AI reacted properly in terms of its roster management?

[statfreak]

yes, the game will reuse the same schedule each season. It just changes the teams, but keeps the schedule format the same.

regarding #2, I believe the game will use a smaller pitching staff, but will still try to have 3 quality starters and a 4 - 5 man bullpen. I haven't tested this thoroughly, but seem to remember this to be the case from other posts here.

[red95vette]

Thanks very much for the info.

[Cryomaniac]

In my test, the teams had 1 starter, 4 relievers, and a closer.

[Cryomaniac]

I simulated 20 years of my test league, and the wins leader has 101, the HR leader 52. 4 players have won 11 games in a season.

[spark240]

This raises another small feature that I'd like to see in an upcoming version of OOTP: when generating league schedules automatically, along with the length of schedule in games, ask for the length of schedule in days (an equal or larger number, unless we want to get into doubleheaders). It seems like a simple matter for programming; just insert sufficient off days to spread the games over the days. For the OP's desired schedule, ask for 14 games over 92 days (the first game being on the first day, the last game being on the last day).