schedule making basics

[Vince148]

I have a project that I will be starting in April. Previously, I just imported actual schedules. However, this season, I'm using a different league structure format which will result in me having to come up with a custom schedule.

The basics will be 6 teams AL, 6 NL. Each team will play 12H/12A against teams in their own league; and 6H/6A against teams in the other league for a total of 156 games.

I've been trying to find info about creating a schedule and came across a blog by GMO which led me to here. It seems that his blog was never completed and apparently, from what I'm reading here, he has gone AWOL.

I'm not looking for anyone to make a schedule for me, but I would certainly appreciate whatever info anyone can give to help me.

I can break my schedule down really easy into 3 game blocks, but I don't want to do that for realism and variety purposes. I want some 2 and 4 game series.

Another thing that I want is to not have schedules be mono. IOW, when 1 plays 2, I don't want to see 3v4 and 5v6 each time, but one time it might be 1v2, 3v4, 5v6; then another week where 1v2, 3v5, 4v6.

Any info I can get would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

P.S. How long does it usually take to do a manual schedule?

[bailey]

I found a schedule for the 120 games part. Now all you have to do is insert your interleague games. You could create a gap after game 44 (just for example) renumber all the games below that by 10 and insert your interleague games for days 45 thru 54. You need to find 36 days for interleague, you may want 4 gaps of 9 days each (or 10 days to throw in some off days).

After that, you need to change the header line to:
<SCHEDULE type="ILY_BGN_G156_SL1_D1_T6_SL2_D1_T6_C_" inter_league="1" balanced_games="0" games_per_team="156" start_month="4" start_day="8" start_day_of_week="2" allstar_game_day="73">

You may want the allstar game played later than 73.

[bailey]

Originally Posted by Vince148

The basics will be 6 teams AL, 6 NL. Each team will play 12H/12A against teams in their own league; and 6H/6A against teams in the other league for a total of 156 games.


P.S. How long does it usually take to do a manual schedule?

Wait a minute,, that's 192 games! Maybe you meant 3H/3A against the other league!

It takes a long time, but after awhile once you "get it" it's satisfying like solving a difficult logic puzzle.

[Chicagofan76]

This is from GMO something i found...I believe this is on his blog.

Making Baseball Schedules

[Vince148]

Originally Posted by bailey

Wait a minute,, that's 192 games! Maybe you meant 3H/3A against the other league!

It takes a long time, but after awhile once you "get it" it's satisfying like solving a difficult logic puzzle.

You're right. I just mistyped it. It is 3H/3A. Thanks.

[Vince148]

Originally Posted by Chicagofan76

This is from GMO something i found...I believe this is on his blog.

Making Baseball Schedules

Yeah, that's what led me here.

[Bristolduke]

I can offer a small thought. First is that the name of the file is critical. It must match the structure you see in all GMO's files 9and in the list of schedules contained in the game. I think GMO's blog details the parameters, but I had a typo once the game couldn't read the schedule.

Second, I use excel to build the schedule and create a text field which I then put in xml format using notepad. It takes a little prep to get excel set up for each day of the season, but the advantage is that it can compute games played for each opp home and away. So much easier in finding errors. You can also use it to create blocks of schedules and then expand copy and paste the blocks.

I don't do many schedules, but I seem to recall doing the template in a few hours and then building the schedule in an hour or so, but it has been awhile.

That's my technique anyway for what its worth.

[Kirby Paquette]

This is the Excel sheet I have come up with to make my 36 teams schedules with Interleague posted elsewhere. I started with the incomplete GMO's blog. To produce this document, it took me hundreds of hours... so I have trashed many excel documents that were only tries and errors. After all the set up, I end up with a simple column that I have copy paste into a GMO schedule. It is important to respect the way it is written. I saved the document specifying ".lsdl" extension.

It is also important to specify how you want your schedule. In GMO schedule you have this line: type="ILY_BGN_G162_SL1_D1_T6_D2_T6_D3_T6_SL2_D1_T6 _D2_T6_D3_T6_C_" inter_league="1" balanced_games="0" games_per_team="162" start_month="3" start_day="28" start_day_of_week="5" allstar_game_day="97">

Which means, in my case ILY= InterLeague, YES
BGN= Balance Games, NO
I don't know about the C at the end.
I have spread my Schedule on 27 weeks. GMO were 26 weeks. My schedule start in the middle of the firs week, on a Wednesday: start_month="3" start_day="28" start_day_of_week="5"
If you want yours different, you have to modify this line the way you want. It took me a while to figure that out.

What was harder was to find a way to aligned the games (the 2, 3, 4 games series) that need to be played. It took me hundreds of tries to have something that met my criteria. It was never perfect But I have finally find something that will met my needs.

I hope this will help you.

[Kirby Paquette]

Sorry I can't upload it it is to big...

[Kirby Paquette]

I broke the document in 4 parts. Here they are. I really hope this would help you.

[Vince148]

Originally Posted by Kirby Paquette

I broke the document in 4 parts. Here they are. I really hope this would help you.

Thanks for the info. Great.