(Official) Divisional Alignment after Expansion
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 9:47 am
So, as it turns out, no one in the OOTP world has ever thought that 2 Leagues of 13 teams each was worthy of creating a schedule for! As you know, when the MLB was at 26 teams, the alignment was 14/12. So, I worked all week creating a schedule for us that would get us close to what we wanted, but I'm bringing this up for vote because even after all the work I did, the schedule is a little "off". I do not wish OOTP schedule creating upon my worst enemy. Here's a quick breakdown of how the schedule spit out games:
(The colors are for my own notes - yellow looks too much above average, orange too far below). I can try to tinker a bit more for more balance, but finding games to switch to make everything work is excruciatingly difficult, so we won't get much better.
If we went with the schedule I created, the most variation you'll get is re-assigned to the schedule that the 3/4 other teams in your division have, vs. the same mix of teams.
My question to the group is... is this ok for you? Or, would you prefer a 14/12 set up where we could utilize evenly generated schedules. FYI if we went 14/12, Atlanta would stay in the RC East, but San Francisco would move to the RC West, and the RC would have 14 teams vs 12 in the AC.
(The colors are for my own notes - yellow looks too much above average, orange too far below). I can try to tinker a bit more for more balance, but finding games to switch to make everything work is excruciatingly difficult, so we won't get much better.
If we went with the schedule I created, the most variation you'll get is re-assigned to the schedule that the 3/4 other teams in your division have, vs. the same mix of teams.
My question to the group is... is this ok for you? Or, would you prefer a 14/12 set up where we could utilize evenly generated schedules. FYI if we went 14/12, Atlanta would stay in the RC East, but San Francisco would move to the RC West, and the RC would have 14 teams vs 12 in the AC.