Abev
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First off, fasten your seatbelt bc I am going to be all over the place. :)
I have this scheduler creator that I attempted to create for PS. When I say attempted, I mean i kinda finished, but the program is Alpha as Alpha gets (PRE Beta). That said, it does work. I have used it. You may need a phd to get it to work.
It will crash. It will NOT harm your comp. There is very little error handling so it is sensitive.
I havnt touched it in over a year, so my memory on what works(as far as which type of league configs) and what doesnt. I am sure there is someone out there who will poke around with it and find it useful.
I doubt I will continue the vb6 version(this) of it. I have moved on to asp.net/vb.net and dont care to look back.
Let me take you through a quick start.
Start the simscheduler exe >
Leave the "year begin", "Games", "Teams/League", and "Div/League" alone for now. >
Keep "Schedule Type" = "balanced" >
Keep "Degree of Unbalance" = 1 >
Under that is the location where it will be saved and below that is that name of the file >
(Nothing is written till the very end so if these are no correct no biggy)
In the "Series Combination Options", check the very last box = "Put into Sceduled weeks"
which will then check all of the other boxes >
Click the "Series Combination" button at the bottom >
NOTE: you only need to create a schedule for one League. If you have a 2 league assn - just setup simscheduler to create on league and it will mirror the settings for the other league.
"Series by week" form pops up.
Each week is displayed with the break down of how the week is set up
Here's how the columns read: Series Num, Weektype, opponent, serieslength, home.away
Most of this data doesnt mean a whole to anyone. I used it for debugging mostly. But it can be of value to you to manipulate the schedule.
Series num is just an index # of the week.
Weektype I think is the type of series it is. internal stuff. I forgot :)
Opponent is a number that represents your opponent. YOUR TEAM is "0" and "0" is playing whichever team is represented in this col.
Series length is whether its a 2, 3 or 4 game series.
Home away is a 0 or 1. I forgot which was which :) I think 0 is home.
The last column highlighted is the cumulative games that week. It should never be greater than 7
Still on this form - you can swap series around by clicking the first box in each week and swapping with another series of the same length. If you think too much got bunched up too early then move them around.
I liked to play all of my div opponents early in the season then late. September would be all vs in division.
I really forgot what alot of the button on this form did. It will come to me. But I do know that "Send to Calendar" is the next step. Click it.
This form is alot nicer and easier to figure of. This is an exact schedule that you have created. Blue is home, red is away. Again, you are team 0 and you are playing team x. Also kepp in mind that every time you play team 1 for example, team 2 is playing team 3. meaning if the yankees played the red sox in a 3 game series, Baltimore would always play the tigers at the same exact time (just an example)
The point i am trying to make is simscheduler creates a template for the entire schedule. Not for each team. So if you have an off day on monday, so does the rest of the league. If you are in a 4 game series, so is the rest of the league.
I created simscheduler for two main reasons. I wanted a more realistic MLB schedule, and I wanted to put in division rivals in certain parts of the schedule.
The numbers somehow reference back to the ps team list. Not exactly sure if that is exposed to people or not without going into the db.
Mouse over the days and it will show the date. You can swap series here too. just click a game within a series and it will highlight all of the games in that series. Then click another series where you want to move it to and it will swap it (same length of series only)
Got off track :) - Click "Write calendar to text" and a window pops up with the created schedule. You can copy and paste that data in to your schedule file or click yes when the dialog box pops up to wirte the file to the dir where you set in the first form.
Something I just remembered. I am pretty sure you need defs in the schedule file. IIRC, I exported a schedule from my ASSN in PS, then just copied the top section of the file that contained all of the team definitions in to the newly created schedule file.
I know the info here is very incomplete, but the point is I have this prog that can help some people out if they choose to be a little bit resilient :)
I can give more info as it comes back to me, and i am sure that if someone plays around with it a bit and has questions more stuff will come back to me.
download it here
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