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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

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 gamesOpponent
Apr 2- Apr 20517 or 18Your divisionIn-Division
Apr 21- May 10618Other division in your conferenceIn-Conference
May 10- May 31517 or 18Your divisionIn-Division
June 1-June 20618Other division in your conferenceIn-Conference
June 21-July 311236Interleague play
Aug 1-Aug 20517 or 18Your divisionIn-Division
Aug 21-Sept 10618Other division in your conferenceIn-Conference
Sept 11-Sept 28517 or 18Your divisionIn-Division
    
Apr 2 - Sept 2850160Full Season
The breakdown of how a series and schedule is constructed is below:

  • In-Division Matchups:
  • 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.
  • 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.

  • ConferenceIn-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 ofopponents 3 times per season.
  • 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:
  • 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.
  • 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