For the last two weeks, I've been working on the league schedule.
Jeremy brought to my attentiont that the home/away schedules for each team were out of whack. While each team played a total of 81 home games and 81 away games, the balance of home/away games that one team plays against another was sometimes out of whack. I saw one case where a team played only five home games against one team while playing 27 away games against the same team. So, I've spent the last two weeks working on a new schedule.
Let me say this... I have a newfound respect for the scheule makers in real-life baseball. I found this particular task to be very difficult -- and I didn't have to deal with real-life travel issues, hotel bookings, stadium conflicts, etc. I'm lucky that our teams don't care if they play three games in Seattle, then head to Miami for three games, then back to Nome for three games and then Tampa Bay again for three -- real life teams wouldn't do that, but I don't have that constraint.
In any event, I finally worked it out. Each team will play a total of 50 series of three or four games, resulting in a total of 162 games. It almost worked out perfectly, except that, in the end, I had to switch two games -- meaning that for four teams, a three game series becomes a two-game/one-game home and home series.
Nonetheless, in the end, all teams have 81 home games and 81 away games. Each team plays every other team in their division at home or away 16 or 17 times.
Before implementing the change, I just want to run this schedule in a test league and make sure there are no... hiccups. I'm going to do that tomorrow (Wednesday) night and hope to have the first week of Spring Training ready for either Thursday night or Saturday night.
Thanks for putting up with the delay.
Zev
It is cool, thanks for taking the time to get this straightened out.
ReplyDeleteDo you mean the second week of Spring Training? Because, if we're going back and re-simming week one, that is REALLY, REALLY ok with me.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for taking care of this, Zev. I can imagine how much of a pain it is.
ReplyDeleteIt almost makes me forgive you for being a Yankees fan.
Almost.
Is there a commissioners-level bet on the World Series? Something like the fan of the losing team has to deal with the next five whiny emails/blog comments from owners?
ReplyDeleteIf not, there should be.
Yes, I had proposed one, but Zev (wisely, I hope, for his sake) declined.
ReplyDeleteThe past two seasons I've been winning lunch bets with foolish Dodger fans out here, so I figured it was time to pick on a New Yorker, especially since I haven't picked on the Mets fan among us in a while.
OK, it's fixed. Are we ever having a sim?
ReplyDeleteI think I am going to have to ask the same question as Nate. When are we moving forward, and can we just run all of Spring Training next sim instead of streatching this out for the next 3 weeks?
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