11.10 Schedule 162-U-660-660-L not correct

[petrel]

I've just looked at a schedule generated from the 162-U-660-660-L.txt files in the Schedules folder of Baseball Mogul 2009.

My understanding is that the classic unbalanced schedule from the days when there were six teams in two divisions went like this:

18 games against every team in your own division (five of those)
12 games against every team in the other division (six of those)

(18 x 5) + (12 x 6) = 90 + 72 = 162. Simple, eh?

However, the schedule from 162-U-660-660-L.txt isn't doing this.

In my "Even The Braves" dynasty, my final schedule looked like this:

Against Teams in Own Division:

Baltimore: 18
Brooklyn: 18
Philadelphia: 18
NY Giants: 18
Pittsburgh: 16

Against Teams in Other Division

Houston: 16
Chi Cubs: 11
Cincinnati: 13
Milwaukee: 13
St. Louis: 13
LA Stars: 8

Ugh.

Well, at least it adds up...sorta. You get 88 games against opponents in your own division and 74 against the other division, and 88 + 74 = 162. (I thought I was getting a "ghost games" error, when games from an earlier schedule didn't clear out.)

So, either one of two things is true:

1) The 162-U-660-660-L.txt file is incorrect, or
2) Historical schedules from this era (1969-76, if I recall) were just screwed up, and this is a typical representative of one of those schedules.

So which is it? Anyone have a schedule that works? This is a minor thing, I know, but it's really disappointing.

--Pet

[ohms_law]

humm... I'm betting on:

1) The 162-U-660-660-L.txt file is incorrect

Even if the actual historic schedules are messed up (which, having been looking at game logs from Retrosheet recently, wouldn't surprise me in the least), the original schedules that were intended to be followed never were messed up. I think Mogul should just create "perfect schedules" regardless of what actually may have occurred.

[SirKodiak]

Retrosheet has the original schedules at http://www.retrosheet.org/schedule/index.html

I don't have time today to look into it, but I think I can make a schedule for a given year from them. Scheduled double headers will be a pain and require manual manipulation, but a lot of the conversion should be relatively easy.

Does anyone know where there a list of when the types of schedules changed?

[petrel]

Right here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_season

--Pet

[SirKodiak]

Thanks Pet!

I have started work on the 1974 schedule. Some of the double headers are going to cause problems because of no open date for both teams nearby, but I hope to figure it out and get you an accurate schedule (though some travel days will have games due to double headers in real schedule) within a day or two. I have to go now, so no time to finish it up, it is time to take the puppy to the park.

I'll try to get accurate schedules out for all actual configurations out soon.

[SirKodiak]

Pet,

Here is a 162-U-660-660-L.txt schedule.

Scheduled double headers turned out to pose a serious problem, so I took the 1992 NL schedule as the base and copied it to make the AL schedule.

Some things to keep in mind:

The schedule starts on Mon 4/6/1992, not sure what the game will do with this.
There is a Thursday that has no games, not sure how the game will react to this.
I have not tested this at all, since I have not downloaded 11.17 (or any unofficial patches), and that is the only version that this should work with so far (but hopefully it will work on 11.17+). I checked for typos, but without testing I am not sure it doesn't have any.


Anybody that wants to test this on 11.17 and report, I would appreciate it (it is designed for years 1969-1976). Remember to keep a copy of the original 162-U-660-660-L.txt safe in case this one fails.

Standard disclaimer:
BEFORE DOWNLOADING THIS FILE, BACKUP YOUR CURRENT 162-U-660-660-L.txt FILE LOCATED IN THE ...\Sports Mogul\Baseball 2009\Schedules DIRECTORY
This file replaces that one.

[SirKodiak]

It says there have been 6 views of this schedule, can anyone tell me if it works?