The
schedule was particularly nasty this year... with an odd
number of teams and 25 weeks of NBA games. Hazzah, good
eventually triumphed and here's how.
First off, everything
about the schedule was randomized with the exception of
some home/away assignments which I had to do to keep
everything from blowing up. I did everything with numbers
(you know, east1-8 and west1-7) and assigned teams to the
numbers as the very last step.
The schedule has four
parts or sections to it:
Intra-conference games, part 1 - In weeks 2-8, each team will play
every other team in its conference once. One team
in the Western Conference gets a bye each week.
Inter-conference games - In weeks 1 and 12-18, each team
will play every other team outside its
conference. One team in the East gets a bye each
week.
Intra-conference games, part2 - The regular season concludes,
weeks 19-25, with each team playing other team in
its conference again. One team in the West gets a
bye each week. If you played a team at home
during the first intra-conference game, then
you're on the road for the second and visa versa.
Weird games
- Well, if you're keeping count, we have three
weeks left to schedule and this is where the
schedule gets a tiny bit asymmetric. In weeks 9
& 10, all Eastern Conference teams will have
a bye, and in week 11 each team in the East plays
one extra intra-conference game (in addition to
the normal ones talked about above). We grouped
some of the bye weeks during this period because
of Christmas and New Years. The West gets a
little less of a holiday break as each West team
plays 2 intra-conference games during weeks 9-11
and has one bye.
If you're wondering whether your
team got screwed, check the schedule for your team. Each
team should:
- Play 22 total games: 11 home
games, 11 away games, and 3 bye weeks
- Play each team within their
conference (at least) twice... once at home and
once on the road
- Play each team outside their
conference once. Western Conference teams will
play 8 inter-conference (4 at home, 4 on the
road) and Eastern Conference teams will play 7
inter-conference games (3 home, 4 road or 4 home,
3 road)
- Eastern Conference teams have
15 conference games and 7 games with teams from
the West
- Western Conference teams have
14 conference games and 8 games with teams from
the East
Email me is you have any
questions... Excellent.
yow, bill
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