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
The 160-game CSFBL season consists of 50 three or four game series played against the 23 other teams in the league. The games are grouped together by division and conference and the schedule is structured in the following chronological order:
Estimated Dates | # of Series | # of games | Opponent |
Apr 2- Apr 20 | 5 | 17 or 18 | Your divisionIn-Division |
Apr 21- May 10 | 6 | 18 | Other division in your conferenceIn-Conference |
May 10- May 31 | 5 | 17 or 18 | Your divisionIn-Division |
June 1-June 20 | 6 | 18 | Other division in your conferenceIn-Conference |
June 21-July 31 | 12 | 36 | Interleague play |
Aug 1-Aug 20 | 5 | 17 or 18 | Your divisionIn-Division |
Aug 21-Sept 10 | 6 | 18 | Other division in your conferenceIn-Conference |
Sept 11-Sept 28 | 5 | 17 or 18 | Your divisionIn-Division |
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Apr 2 - Sept 28 | 50 | 160 | Full Season |
The breakdown of how a series and schedule is constructed is below:
- In-Division Matchups:
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The team yourYou're facing is one of the 5 other teams in your division.
- You
openplay your division 4 times per season including the seasonbeginning and closeend of the season playing teams in your division.season.
- Each series against a team in your division is either 3 or 4 games long.
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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 faceplay each team in your division a total of 14 times (6 + 8) apiece per season. Two 3-game series and two 4-game series..
- You play a total of 70 in-division games per season.
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ConferenceIn-Conference Matchups:
- A conference opponent is one of 6 teams from the other division that makes up your conference.
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Each series against a team is always 3 games.
You face a team from your conference a total ofopponents 3 times per season.
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YouEach series in 3 games and 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:
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AnIn interleague opponentplay, is ayour team whofaces isthe in12 teams from the other conference that makes up your league.conference.
- 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.
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EachYou play each team willonce playper season for a total of 3 gamesgame per interleague matchup, for 1 series per season.
Each team faces all 12 teams in the other conference.series.
- There is a total of 36 interleague games.
Grand Total: 160 games