[NU Sports] 2009 schedule

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Major League Baseball demonstrates the challenge in schedule-making

>From about 1954 to 1980, a guy named Harry Simmons made the schedules (by hand) in the commisioner's office

>From 1981-2004?a husband/wife team from Martha's vineyard started out by hand, then brought in computers

Since 2005 baseball has farmed it out to the 'Sports Scheduling Group', outside of Pittsburgh, a bunch of PhD's

Chuck Herron?? Tech 85


-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Lamberton <rstetson at capps-assoc.com>
To: 'Dennis W. Brandt' <tbng at comcast.net>; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Sent: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 11:17 am
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] 2009 schedule



As one who actually does scheduling for a baseball league....

We have 12 teams, but 8 of them are in the North end of the state and 4 are in
the south.

As a result we wind up with 3 - 4 team divisions which is fine until the state
tournament, where everyone wants to rank the teams based on games won,
regardless of how they finished in the regular season.

I actually have to use a multi league software package and merge them to come up
with a complete schedule, altho its going to be trickier next year since we lose
a week of our season.

But as I say, if it was easy, anyone could do it....

rsl

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Computer Applications & Support Associates
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of Dennis W. Brandt
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:04 AM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] 2009 schedule
> 
> > Also note that many teams have
> > nonconference matchups set all the way until 2014 and beyond, so getting
> > out
> > of those contracts will also be an obstacle.
> 
> Then let's aim to start playing an entire schedule in 2015.  That ain't so
> far away.
> 
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