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Schedule FormatThe schedule is H2H and will focus on division games with some out-of-division games and even less interleague games. It will be based on the actual MLB schedule. For each of the 23 weeks of the regular season, one day's matchups (in which all teams play) will be used. The commissioner will make sure that the right days are picked so that there is a balance in the schedule.If possible, some type of multiplier may be used in the points matchup of the scoring to award 0 to 7 wins to make it as real-life as possible. What I am thinking is simply looking at the ratio of how much one team's points compares to the other. Fantrax will give out a W and L for each matchup and it would be up to the commissioner to adjust it based on the points ratio.Where the ratio is the winning team's score over the losing team's score...1 = 4 wins1.3 = 5 wins1.7 = 6 wins2 = 7 wins
Of course, the other option is to make it seven matches against the same opponent in one week and have Fantrax assign it on a daily basis. Seven times 23 weeks gives 161 games. The RC may figure out some simple way to add 1 W or 1 L to the final tally.
This would be a nice feature, but it it's not something we can easily implement then I'm not sure if its necessary. For example, if the commish is going to have to make regular adjustments, then I don't see the return outweighing the cost. If Fantrax could implement this for us, then by all means...I'm not fond of this, as a number wins/losses could be decided strictly by who had the most players pitch on a certain day, rather than who had the most productive roster. If have a team with 2-3 ace pitchers who's starts coincide, he'll be sub 500. If you have the period span a week, he'd be in great shape. Since we can't control when pitchers pitch, we need to have a period length that spans sufficient MLB games (min of 3-4, preferably 1 week).
I'll side with all of Ben's statements, if our return doesn't pay for the time we put into it, it might be a bit too much.I'll also side with the idea of a matchup being 3-4 days, maximum a week.
I'd caution games lasting less than a week just for the sake of sample size. Also, I think it's important that lineup changes are weekly (not sure if this is potentially changing).
Lineup changes can be weekly, and the schedule would be weekly as well. I think we are all in agreement that if this could be automatically done by Fantrax then we will use if not we will go with a standard W-L-T arrangement.