Schedule question/request

[gdelmonico]

Hello, I wanted to try to do a schedule where 12 teams all in one league in one division, play a 22 game season, 2 vs each other team, I want to try to make it so all games are played once a week, any tips on how to do this?
Thanks in advance for any help!

[Ruwisc]

Each game in the schedule file has its day attached to it - the first week's games should be on day 1, the second week will be on day 8, the third week will be on day 15, etc.

[thehip41]

Also, I google "tournament scheduler" for some of my stuff.

you can put in 12 teams, and it will give you a single or double round robin.

All you have to do is put day 1 in front of the first group, etc.

Might have to check and make sure one team doesn't have like 6 straight home games

[gdelmonico]

How do you edit the schedule

[NoOne]

editting the schedule in the game is a painstaking process. (league settings -> options, then click the button that says "edit schedule")

i'd get teh schedule creator in these forums, if you want ot make your own or if the game doesn't generate one that you like. i'm not sure if bigrod updated the link, yet... but a little birdy said it's likely to happen soon.

The game won't do what you want as far as days off - if you want to control that stuff you'll need to make it by hand. it will simply schedule 22 games with very few days off just as it handles any other sized schedule.

**** if you edit the schedule in the game, export it to a file when you are done to save your work!! if you want to always use that schedule, add "_C_Leage_Name" to the title... i actually make 2 and name them "_C_Leage_Name_A" and B so that it doesn't jumble up the matchups each year... it will cycle between those 2.

it may rotate through all available sutiable schedules, if multiples exist... so comment it with your leagues name and it will stick to that one. it will jumble up which team is associated with each # for the schedule each year - unless you do what i described above... i think most want the jumbling, unlike me. i custom make my schedules and i have a home-heavy 2nd half that i'd like to keep... it allows me to make more $$$ by allowing ticket price to rise while not selling as many cheaper tickets early in the year.

League Settings -> Options, right side of screen for schedule stuff:

In the game: what you are describing is a balanced schedule - click that on. if you have 2 subleageus in order to get an ASG, click that Interleague play, too. (not sure if it will balance the interleague... so if you don't care bout an ASG, do 1 subleague to avoid this potential head-ache that might require manually changing a scheduel in game.

change # of games to 22. you want 1home 1 away? then series length should be 1. set start date as you want etc etc.. you can generate a new schedule based on these choices... if it fits your need, use it.

otherwise, set the game settings appropriately, and make your own for import (to import: click "Edit Schedule" button, and then on next screen click "available actions" and find "import schedule".

if you get errors saying it's not the right format... you need to edit the file name or the header in the file.. i'd take a schedule you know works and has the same structure and simply copy/paste it to your custom schedule file. remove uneccessary things from the schedule file like start day or day of week - only leave the important descriptive bits - # of games, balanced, interleage, ASG etc.

also when saving the schedule file the first time from the spreadsheet - save as CSV but ISO-8597-1 or wahwevet -1 wil be enough to know which text format. it's also at the top of all xml schedule files of ootp.

anyway, a 12 team / 22 game schedule wouldn't take you long to hammer out. i have a post somewhere explaining how to systematicaly go through matchups without painting yourself into a corner near the end -- if you do it willy nilly, you can end up with matchups that are impossible to set for that week because tehy've already played 2 games against each other.

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also, if you want an all-star game, you need 2 sub-leagues. you can make any schedule work for this, even if you intended no sub leagues.

playoffs may be forced into a certain structure, i guess?? anyway to pull from both subleageus based on just best record? i'm not sure.

tips: team ID's are in alphabetical order of the 3 letter abbreviations by division.

so, look in team structure of the settings, and you can see the divisions listed in order (relative to how ootp will handle them). the teams may not be in order here, if you customized things. so, Team# in the schedule corresponds to their alphabetical order within each division - and the 3 letter abreviation!! not the city name or mascot name.

real mlb: baltimore is 1, bost is 2... cleveland is before chicago (CLE vs CWS).

with just 22 games and 12 teams, it may be faster to just edit a lsdl file than use the schedule generator. just cycle through matchups each "day" and give days off as you intend. no different than setting up the schedule creator spreadsheet, really. just tougher to visualize and work with after you create it.

in a spradsheet you can simple shift, move, copy/paste stuff all over... in the lsdl file you gotta do alot more work to do similar things... but if it's a one and done - it is probably faster just editing the lsdl file.