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mm7607 · 08-01-2009, 03:03 PM

Would someone please tell me the secret to making these schedules. I'm am in the process of building one for an 18 team league of just 40 a game season and its taken me hours to build line by line. Is there a program or some technic that I don't know about. I'm using notepad++ which has a great find and replace mode but its still taking for ever. And I want to expand my league by 2 teams every 5 years for the next 20 years, so redoing the schedules will be a pain.

gmo · 08-02-2009, 07:31 PM

My secret is having spent 5 years doing it and in that time developing a system that includes experience, spreadsheet methods for building and configuring series-based layouts, and scripting language programs for fine-tuning, evaluating, and producing output. Yet it still takes substantial manual work. I would be quite happy if there was a ScheduleShop Pro that people could fire up and use to spit out nice schedules.

I have been thinking of doing write-ups to help explain and demonstrate what I do and how I do it. But motivation and time for that are hard to come by.

mm7607 · 08-02-2009, 07:52 PM

I think I would spend money for those explanations. I know right now it is long and tedious to make these schedules. It kinda takes away from the game as the schedules generated by the game itself leave a lot to be desired.

08-01-2009, 03:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
mm7607 All Star Reserve Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 502 Thanks: 15 Thanked 71x in 46 posts	Help Would someone please tell me the secret to making these schedules. I'm am in the process of building one for an 18 team league of just 40 a game season and its taken me hours to build line by line. Is there a program or some technic that I don't know about. I'm using notepad++ which has a great find and replace mode but its still taking for ever. And I want to expand my league by 2 teams every 5 years for the next 20 years, so redoing the schedules will be a pain.

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08-02-2009, 07:31 PM	#2 (permalink)
gmo Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2002 Location: Grand Forks, ND Posts: 2,788 Thanks: 0 Thanked 83x in 46 posts	My secret is having spent 5 years doing it and in that time developing a system that includes experience, spreadsheet methods for building and configuring series-based layouts, and scripting language programs for fine-tuning, evaluating, and producing output. Yet it still takes substantial manual work. I would be quite happy if there was a ScheduleShop Pro that people could fire up and use to spit out nice schedules. I have been thinking of doing write-ups to help explain and demonstrate what I do and how I do it. But motivation and time for that are hard to come by.

08-02-2009, 07:52 PM	#3 (permalink)
mm7607 All Star Reserve Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 502 Thanks: 15 Thanked 71x in 46 posts	I think I would spend money for those explanations. I know right now it is long and tedious to make these schedules. It kinda takes away from the game as the schedules generated by the game itself leave a lot to be desired.