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 | In-Division |
Apr 21- May 10 | 6 | 18 | In-Conference |
May 10- May 31 | 5 | 17 or 18 | In-Division |
June 1-June 20 | 6 | 18 | In-Conference |
June 21-July 31 | 12 | 36 | Interleague |
Aug 1-Aug 20 | 5 | 17 or 18 | In-Division |
Aug 21-Sept 10 | 6 | 18 | In-Conference |
Sept 11-Sept 28 | 5 | 17 or 18 | In-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:
- You're facing one of the 5 other teams in your division.
- You play your division 4 times per season including the beginning and end of the season.
- Each series against a team in your division is either 3 or 4 games long.
- You play 14 games against each team in your division. Two 3-game series and two 4-game series.
- You play a total of 70 in-division games per season.
- In-Conference Matchups:
- A conference opponent is one of 6 teams from the other division that makes up your conference.
- You face conference opponents 3 times per season.
- Each series is 3 games, so 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:
- In interleague play, your team faces the 12 teams from the other 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.
- You play each team once per season for a 3 game series.
- There is a total of 36 interleague games.