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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 18In-Division
Apr 21- May 10618In-Conference
May 10- May 31517 or 18In-Division
June 1-June 20618In-Conference
June 21-July 311236Interleague
Aug 1-Aug 20517 or 18In-Division
Aug 21-Sept 10618In-Conference
Sept 11-Sept 28517 or 18In-Division
    
Apr 2 - Sept 2850160Full 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.