Wow, didn't look at the schedule until today

[obobo55new]

Before Memorial day, the Crew will complete their season series against the Mets, Phillies, and Dodgers. I know it all evens out, but wonder why the schedulers do this, particularly having series at home and road so close together. Would be better to split these by at least a month or preferably one series in each half.

 

My supervisor is a big Dodger fan. Hope Grandal has some nice games coming up...

[dlk9s]

Don't worry. We'll still have another series against at least one of those teams.

[HarveysWBs]

Don't worry. We'll still have another series against at least one of those teams.

 

+1. I have nothing more to add. That was perfect.

[wibadger]

For the past couple decades Henry and Holly Stephenson used to create all the schedules by hand. MLB recently switched to using a randomization software and it hasn’t done very well.

[obobo55new]

We play all of those games before we see the Pirates for the first time. Then over the course of 39 days, the Crew and Buccos play 13 times.

[Jenkins5]

April & May are brutal for Brewers so if they can stay hot & survive those 2 months they will be in great shape. I think June & July should be relatively “easy” months. Hard to tell where those teams will be by then but on paper as of today, that should be period to really make head way. August gets difficult again and September you see Cubs 5x & Cards 3 more times. Houston for 2 and Rockies 3 to finish year.

[Jimbo]

Before Memorial day, the Crew will complete their season series against the Mets, Phillies, and Dodgers. I know it all evens out, but wonder why the schedulers do this, particularly having series at home and road so close together. Would be better to split these by at least a month or preferably one series in each half.

 

As a amateur mathematician myself, I think road and away are played consecutive weeks is because it is just easier to schedule the games.

[Patrick425]

For the past couple decades Henry and Holly Stephenson used to create all the schedules by hand. MLB recently switched to using a randomization software and it hasn’t done very well.

 

Actually was not that recently. Henry and Holly were replaced by software in 2005.

 

https://www.minnpost.com/sports/2009/03/think-you-have-tough-job-try-putting-together-major-league-baseballs-schedule-and-ple/

[brwrsfan]

There's always schedule quirks (like having off every Thursday last September for example), but this years schedule certainly didn't to the Brewers any favors. April and May are brutal (on paper).

 

I'm not a fan of essentially playing the same team almost back to back. Going @LAD, STL, LAD, @STL for the next two weeks is pretty silly IMO. There has to be ways to avoid things like that.

[Austin Tatious]

The problem with clustering games against certain teams is you bring more luck into it. For example, you can catch a team where it is nosediving and take advantage of it while your competitor may catch them on a hot streak. If you space it out, relative hotness will be closer to evening out.

[xisxisxis]

Actually was not that recently. Henry and Holly were replaced by software in 2005.

 

https://www.minnpost.com/sports/2009/03/think-you-have-tough-job-try-putting-together-major-league-baseballs-schedule-and-ple/

Most likely the software is like 99.999999999% of the software on the market where they "upgraded" recently and the latest version is worse, buggier, and a massive "downgrade" in performance... This will be followed by 15-20 "fixes" some of which get worse and some of which help and ultimately they will likely just go back and install the version from 5 years ago (I'm looking at you Microsoft and your crapstorm known as Windows 10)...

[brwrsfan]

The problem with clustering games against certain teams is you bring more luck into it. For example, you can catch a team where it is nosediving and take advantage of it while your competitor may catch them on a hot streak. If you space it out, relative hotness will be closer to evening out.

 

Agreed. It also makes injuries that much more of a factor. If someone on say, the Dodgers gets hurt and goes on the IL, he'd miss Both Brewers series with a minor injury. It also means some of the same pitching matchups could occur again - just not a fan. It definitely could have been avoided and hopefully fixed in the future.

[wildcat83]

The problem with clustering games against certain teams is you bring more luck into it. For example, you can catch a team where it is nosediving and take advantage of it while your competitor may catch them on a hot streak. If you space it out, relative hotness will be closer to evening out.

 

Agreed. It also makes injuries that much more of a factor. If someone on say, the Dodgers gets hurt and goes on the IL, he'd miss Both Brewers series with a minor injury. It also means some of the same pitching matchups could occur again - just not a fan. It definitely could have been avoided and hopefully fixed in the future.

 

The LA/STL/LA/STL stretch jumped out at me as brutal. However, to your point, it looks like we will see limited amounts of Buehler and Kershaw because of their arm issues in spring. Might get through that stretch only seeing Buehler 1 time and Kershaw not at all depending on his return date.

 

In this case may seem to benefit us, but that is a brutal start to the schedule. It's nice to get off to such a hot start. Gives us a little more wiggle room to survive the first two months.

[DHonks]

Before Memorial day, the Crew will complete their season series against the Mets, Phillies, and Dodgers. I know it all evens out, but wonder why the schedulers do this, particularly having series at home and road so close together. Would be better to split these by at least a month or preferably one series in each half.

 

As a amateur mathematician myself, I think road and away are played consecutive weeks is because it is just easier to schedule the games.

 

Clearly an amateur linguist as well, eh?? couldn't resist

[Oxy]

If you space it out, relative hotness will be closer to evening out.

 

There is a joke here about becoming an astronaut to get a date with Angelina Jolie and she turns out to be your cousin. Weird.