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Season Schedule

Summary: How the regular season schedule is created and what you need to know about it.

About the Regular Season

Each regular season has a 160 game schedule spread out from April 2nd to September 28th. In a new league, the seasons usually start at the year 1981 and go on from there.

Structure of a Season

A team plays 50 three or four game series against the 23 other teams during the course of a season. The schedule is structured in the following chronological order:

# of Series# of gamesOpponent
517 or 18Your division
618Other division in your conference
517 or 18Your division
618Other division in your conference
1236Interleague play
517 or 18Your division
618Other division in your conference
517 or 18Your division
   
50160Full Season
The breakdown of how a series and schedule is constructed is below:

  • In-Division Matchups:
  • The team your facing is one of 5 other teams in your division.
  • You open the season and close the season playing teams in your division.
  • Each series against a team in your division is either 3 or 4 games long.
  • A 3 game series against a team in your division happens twice a season (6 total games)
  • A 4 game series against a team in your division happens twice a season (8 total games)
  • You face each team in your division a total of 14 times (6 + 8) apiece per season.
  • You play a total of 70 in-division games per season.

  • Conference Matchups:
  • A conference opponent is one of 6 teams from the other division that makes up your conference.
  • Each series against a team is always 3 games.
  • You face a team from your conference a total of 3 times per season.
  • You play a total of 9 games per season against each conference team.
  • You play a total of 54 conference games per season.

  • Interleague Matchups:
  • An interleague opponent is a team who is in the other conference that makes up your league.
  • For roughly 1 1/2 months during the end of June and all of July teams will participate in interleague play against the other conference.
  • Each team will play a total of 3 games per interleague matchup, for 1 series per season.
  • Each team faces all 12 teams in the other conference.
  • There is a total of 36 interleague games.

Grand Total: 160 games