The masterminds for 25 years behind this massive logistical undertaking were Henry and Holly Stephenson. A husband and wife duo working out of an upstairs bedroom in their Staten Island home with a computer, a pencil and a great deal of cooperation. How did this mom-and-pop team ever end up with the daunting and thankless job of MLB scheduling?
Joseph Garner spent his childhood in a suburb of Chicago with his parents and two younger brothers. He recently directed the independent documentary, "Craigslist Joe," where he lived for 31 days with no money or contact with anyone he knew, traveling the U. There has long been rumblings that baseball simply plays too many games and that damages its level of interest from the long-sought-after casual fan. There are nostalgists who long to return to the days of the game schedule, which was the rule of the day from in the American League and in the National League.
When the National League followed suit in with the addition of the Houston Colt. From , the American and National leagues played games per season, a number arrived at through simple mathematics. Each team had eight teams. Every team played the other league members 20 times each. Seven times 20 equals Not rocket science. Just math. To expand the schedule to games, the teams were slated to play each other 22 times a season.
Seven times 22? Yep, So when the American League expanded to 10 teams for the season, there was no way to make games work and retain the balance of the schedule since there would be no divisional play at this point. Going back to 20 games per opponent would have still left an unworkable game schedule. Reducing to 16 games against each other team would have resulted in a game slate. So 18 was the compromise. Nine times 18 equals It was the way to a keep the number of games against each opponent even to retain home and road balance and get closest to games.
The introduction of divisional play in with the addition of four more expansion teams — the Kansas City Royals and Seattle Pilots in the American League along with the Montreal Expos and San Diego Padres in the National League — complicated things. The American League opted for a two-division alignment. The National League, however, had agreed to a game schedule — 15 games against each opponent while retaining a single division, even if that meant an uneven number of home and road games for each team.
We already have accounted for each individual division of 5 teams scheduling so we can now find out how many times each team will play the other 10 teams that are in the other 2 divisions of their league. Each of the 5 teams in any given division of Major League Baseball will play the other 10 teams from the other 2 divisions in their league a total of 66 times. Now simple math will tell you that 66 games against 10 teams come to playing each team 6.
The actual way that the schedule is made up is that of the other 2 divisions in your league, you will play each division 33 times. This is done by playing 3 teams in each division 7 times 21 games and the other 2 teams in each division 6 times 12 games. The final piece of how Major League Baseball makes it's game schedule for all 30 teams comes with scheduling interleague play. As you know, Major League Baseball is comprised of 2 leagues, American and National, and there are 15 teams in each league.
So does that mean that each team will play all 15 teams from the other league every year? No, it does not. MLB has a different format for scheduling interleague games and it is divided into 3 categories:. Many of the 30 MLB teams are in close proximity to each other. Some of them are within the same city, some of them are in the same state and some of them are just a short distance over state borders away from each other.
This creates what MLB considers "natural rivals". Because of their geographic proximity, fans of either of the teams are just a short drive away from attending the games regardless of which team venue it will be played in. Here are the MLB Interleague Natural Rivals that play each other 4 times every year, along with the nickname of the rivalry. So what do the other 8 teams do? Well, that is easy, 4 teams from each league rotate playing each other 2 times every other year for a total of 4 games each.
This only changes when two of the divisions draw each other in a divisional rotation year, at which point they will play each other 6 times each, 3 home games, and 3 road games. MLB interleague division rotations are just that, each division has a pre-determined division from each of the other league's divisions that they will play in rotating years.
So of the 20 interleague baseball games that are played each year, 16 of them will be against a team from the other league from the same division, rotating divisions each year. So a real example is the NL East. You can see in the chart below that the NL East will play the AL West in , they will play the AL East in and they will play AL Central in , Then the rotation will start all over again and whoever the home team was in the previously scheduled series will now be the away team in the next.
So there you have it. Now you can see how Major League Baseball makes its schedule and determines who plays each other on each calendar year. This site is fully secured via SSL. Lakers vs 76ers Tickets, Schedule, Games. View all Sports. Country Jazz and Blues. Ricky Martin. View all Concerts Near Me. View all Comedy Near Me. Search by City or State:.
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